Tranquility in the ‘Way of Tea’
Dec 03, 2020
3 minutes
By Jacqueline Miller
Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon
Being invited to a traditional Chinese tea ceremony on the lunar calendar’s first day of autumn was the perfect way to celebrate a long-anticipated reunion.
Chen Wei runs a jade and tea shop near Beijing’s Fragrant Hill Park. The first thing I noticed about her was the giant jade Buddha pendant she was wearing. “Perfect!” I thought to myself. This would be a quintessentially “Chinese”
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