Etiquettes you may not know about Chinese tea drinking | 8个你需要知道的茶礼仪

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1. Don’t fill the teacups too much
Tea is usually hot(except iced tea) and it’s easy to get your or your guests’ hands burn if you fill too much tea in the cup. Always leave some space so that your guests won’t be hurt.
2. Seniors come first
For the first steep, serve the eldest first and the to the youngest. For the second steep, you can serve guests either in clockwise or counter clock wise directions.
3. Use gestures to say thanks you
This etiquette originated from an interesting story. The emperor Qianlong in Qing dynasty loves to disguise himself as a commoner and travel around especially in Zhejiang, Jiangsu province. One day when he was drinking tea with his ministers, he took the teapot and served them with tea. For such situation ,it’s a practice to get knees down and kowtow for thanking the emperor but since they need to keep the emporo’s disguise, so kowtow obviously doesn’t work at that time. So he came out an idea and bend hi...