friend tea inheritance

One dear female friend told me few days ago, 
"Hey Brian, don't you think the package of wait a moment is a little bit too young, do you? However the people who are affordable to buy these teas are around 30 to 40 years old. Have you ever thought about change the package?"

Undoubtedly, the package of wait a moment seems for young people, and buyers are older instead. Moreover, the packages of other brands of tea are much more excellent, and brilliant, and customers could buy these teas because of their beautiful appearances without thinking what kinds of tea are they almost.     

Thank you, my dear friend. You reminded me the advantage of the package of wait a moment. Actually wait a moment is for young people and foreigners in the beginning, even till now. Elders know tea, and they know how to enjoy and admire tea because the older generations have shown the spirit and culture of tea. Now it is gone. Young people need something to help them to connect with tea.   

Tea could be kind of a beverage in bottles. The process of make tea with a set of utensils could be a beautiful performance. However the most significant and important meaning of tea is in sado(cha dao). 
 
Most people talk about knowledge of tea loudly. They know a lot of locations of tea, and they could describe the fragrances and tastes of tea with brilliant words. You think they are masters, but they are more like businessmen and far away from sado(cha dao) in this way. 

Have you ever been in a Japanese tea ceremony once? The tempo of Japan tea ceremony is slow and the atmosphere is serious. It is boring, and fascinating. How come?? Yes, it is such a incredible 'thing'. It is sado(cha dao). Tea ceremony are not the most proper words for sado.

茶道
 
Tea is gentle. It could be drank. It could be read. There are a lot of Taiwan tea ceremonies in Taiwan today. People use a set of expensive utensils to brew up tea with dim light and elegant atmosphere. And yes, it is definitely a ceremony although they call it sado.

Something we have to look inside and search in ourselves. Sado is one of these something. The real sado in Taiwan is similar with sado(Japanese tea ceremony) in Japan I think. It should be boring and fascinating. Anyway, when you meet it, you must could recognize it.

 

好友 茶葉 傳承

台灣
茶葉，是台灣的文化和歷史，其中之一，重要的其中之一。

泡沫紅茶
是茶葉的一種演進，茶葉精緻高貴的包裝也是一種演進，如果只看到演進的亮麗，就會失去了茶葉樸實的真實。

所以
許多人開始習茶，了解茶，泡茶；尋訪高山好茶，使用名家茶器，調暗燈光，造就了喝茶的品味和格調。




我覺得
日本將茶安排了一個非常好的生活角色，茶道的抹茶，和日常會飲用的煎茶和焙茶。

目的不同所以規矩不同，所以一個是道，一個是生活。

混在一起就會不倫不類。

台灣的泡沫紅茶、珍珠奶茶可以盛行，想必一定有茶葉在裡面作用著，不然大行其道的應該是泡沫咖啡或是珍珠咖啡。

年輕人願意喝泡沫紅茶、珍珠奶茶或是瓶裝茶，都是對茶葉的一種回應，這些是生活的茶；

用茶壺泡茶，有茶盅，六杯六托，就是道了嗎？相信沒有人會同意的。

若參考日本對茶葉的態度，則複雜了許多，畢竟兩國的茶葉種類或訴求都不同。

用茶具泡茶招待客人，也是生活的茶，雖然比起泡沫紅茶嚴謹，只不過還不是道。



我覺得
道很無趣的，但是卻很吸引人。

矛盾嗎？經驗過日本茶道的人，都知道那步調的緩慢，沒有言語，肅穆的氣氛，這樣的過程怎麼會有趣？

矛盾的是，經驗過日本茶道的人，都愛上了日本茶道。



感覺台灣的一切都在啟動，茶葉也是；看著年輕朋友試著買茶、愛茶，似乎也在訴說他們對這文化和歷史的渴求................

我們應該可以做點什麼，我們應該可以做點什麼