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國際茶亭 Tea & Tao Magazine Global Tea Hutjuly 2014 Contents 國際茶亭 Tea & Tao Magazine Global Tea HutJuly 2014 Contents Tea of the Month: Spring 2014 Wild Red Tea; “Daughter of the Forest” Qian Jia Zhai, Yunnan Journey to the King Tea Tree By Wu De A Ku Chuong Tea Ceremony By Lindsey Goodwin Tea Legends: A Ku Chuong Tea Origin Tale By Ai Li Juan Tea Travels: Global Tea Hut Yunnan, 2014 By Lindsey Goodwin The Eight Bowls: A Meditative Mind Shane Marrs continues this series of commentary on the Eight Bowls of our tradition with the second bowl of Mastered Mind; Meditation. Tea Travels: Yunnan 2014; Another Perspective By Steve Kokker Tea Wayfarer Anastasia Kotliarova, Russia If you are not yet © 2014 by Global Tea Hut subscribed to Global Tea Hut, join at: All rights reserved. Are you a new subscriber? All back issues of No part of this publication may be re- www.globalteahut.org Global Tea Hut produced, stored in a retrieval system or are readable for free transmitted in any form or by any means, New subscribers get on our website! electronic, mechanical, photocopying, re- a free month for a friend cording, or otherwise, without prior written throughout 2014! permission from the copyright owner. Letter from the Editor n July, midway through this third year of Glob- al Tea Hut, we find ourselves blossoming like the frangipani flowers outside the center. This is one of the best and most unique months of GTH Iever! We hope that all the joy and love that went into this month’s envelope will be transmitted to you, and help spread this experience further. In this month, two long-term GTH goals were met with great elation: Firstly, as we have been discussing in great detail these past few months, we hope to take this magazine fur- ther afield, bringing more and more journalism to these pages. This month, we all traveled to Qian Jia Zhai, Ai Lao Mountain in Yunnan. And in the coming pages we plan to tell you all about this magical region, sharing our adventures with you as well. We hope that this trip is the beginning of many more to come, and that future trips are even more focused, with travel articles, info about tea growing regions and families, history, translated texts and much more. As membership increases, we will be able to fund more such trips—bringing you rarer and more exotic teas, and brighter, more interesting stories to sur- De round you tea drinking. We are sure that this will bring an Wu even greater magic to this GTH experience, as well as to connect you to great organic farmers who are committed we will be able to further improve in all these areas. And, to environmental preservation. of course, all the proceeds of this magazine will be devoted This trip also heralds the beginning of an annual to maintaining our current center, as well as to building a Global Tea Hut tea trip that we plan to host each spring. better, brighter future center that will belong to all of us! Thirteen people joined us this time around, from six dif- As you travel with us in the following pages, we ferent countries around the world. We foresee a time in the hope you feel the vibrancy of our trip and the deep and future where these annual trips will be much larger, and lasting bonds we made with each other—some of us hav- the camaraderie will be all the more pronounced! Imagine ing met for the first time in person. Traveling together meeting each other for the first time on the slopes of Ai brought us all closer together and deepened our love of Lao Mountain, as we did. Or sharing your first cup of tea. We hope you feel that too, as if you were there. Actu- tea together in person with a GTH brother from Estonia ally, you all were. We talked of you often, hoping that the beneath the stunning cliffs of Wuyi Mountain (next year’s coming issue and the tea sent with it would inspire you as destination)! much as it has us. You traveled with us in spirit. And as we The second goal we achieved this month was to begin to travel more to seek out such teas and experiences produce our own tea for GTH. As you will soon see, this worth sharing, we know that you’ll be along for the ride: month’s tea is the rarest and most special we’ve ever sent in our hearts and prayers. In that way, this experience is out in these envelopes, containing all the love and good much more than a tea of the month club. Plenty of ven- wishes of thirteen of our very own brothers and sisters in dors are selling that. this community! May this be the beginning of many more We are offering the chance to connect with a teas handcrafted with spirit and love—teas that further vibrant, living tea tradition and the community that sur- this community and make this experience all the more rounds it! We are offering the chance to learn about tea intimate. itself as well as how to utilize tea as a transformational tool As promised, we’ve brought you better packaging in your life. And, most importantly, we are offering you to protect the teas, rarer and more personalized tea, and the chance to participate in building free, non-profit tea more journalism based on direct connection with tea spaces in Taiwan and later abroad—spaces you can visit growing regions, farmers and producers. We hope that yourself and feel a part of. We are offering family… this experience helps inspire you to share Global Tea Hut with people. In that way, this experience will expand and Tea of the Month Spring 2014 Wild Red Tea Qian Jia Zhai, Yunnan his is by far the most special and treasured tea we’ve and to each other, so that we can educate tea lovers Tever sent, and that’s saying a lot! This month we’ve about the effects their purchasing decisions have on the fulfilled a long-standing goal to make tea with our own environment, as well as the effects you each have on the hands to share with all of you, infusing the entire process future of tea production... from tree to bowl with the energy of this community! We hope that this marks the beginning of many more teas right from the source, bringing you a rich background to Our Trip complement the amazing experience that is Global Tea Hut. As membership increases, we plan to devote some This month, a group of thirteen Global Tea Hut funds to traveling to tea-growing regions and finding members traveled to Yunnan in Southwest China, which farmers who produce tea organically, and who love the is the birthplace of all tea and Cha Dao. This trip was the earth and wish to protect it the way that we do. first of what we hope will be many activities designed to Drinking tea with this community each month is bring this community together in person. We hope to a profound experience, and we are always blown away by use our tea centers to create movement from this mag- how different the tea is once it starts arriving at its desti- azine, and the experience that surrounds receiving it, to nations and we all start to drink it together. As so many actual tea spaces and then back home again. Receiving of you have verified, you can really feel the community in these envelopes always means more after you’ve visited the cup. This month will be extra special because we have our center and met the authors in person, seeing how such a magnificent story surrounding every bowl. your financial support is used. We hope to host a lot Sometimes people in the tea world get jaded, hear- more tea trips in the coming years, as well as big gather- ing so many stories used by vendors to sell tea. We know. ings at the new center after it’s built! After you go to a tea market in China and hear a few The impetus for this trip actually began years dozen wild claims about how the boss bought more tea ago… Wu De is always ready to learn anything tea than a region actually-factually produces, how they know related from anyone, and will humbly receive any him so well in such-and-such a village that he’s family; or teacher, whether in his lineage or not. Amongst many how his close relationship with some high government teachers he’s studied tea with, he learned a lot from a official allows him access to otherwise inaccessible tea— Taiwanese tea master named Huang Chuan Fang. Some after all that, you start to tune out stories and rely solely of you may recall that he even discussed Master Huang’s on your own taste. Good teas don’t need a story. They calligraphy in his book The Way of Tea. Master Huang is speak for themselves. “The truth is in the cup,” as Master a kind and gentle teacher, who has a way of conveying Lin always says. Relying on your own taste when buying the spirit of tea simply and unadorned, so that people tea is great, but let’s face it: a tea with a story is more from all walks of life feel inspired to let Tea change enjoyable! Isn’t that true for anything? Isn’t your favorite their lives.
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