"The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain." - Lu Yu (d. 804), Chinese sage, hermit
Picture (above)- Tea leaves steeping in an uncovered Zhong (chinese tea cup)- by Wikimol (image licence and details here)
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