Tea Ceremony in Mengzi

Apart from our teaching and data collection activities at Honghe University, we also try to get as much insight into the Chinese culture as possible. One of the most important things a China visitor has to do, is to take part in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Cleo, an English teacher at Honghe University, arranged this ceremony in a teahouse in Mengzi downtown.


We were lucky to try two kinds of Pu-Erh tea, one of them was 20 years old and the other one was harvested last year. The first and the second infusions of tea are poured away. The third infusion is drank. A Chinese proverb says that the first infusion is for your enemy, the second for your friend and the third for yourself.