Ep. 140-10 | Yixing Teaware and the Gongfu Tea Ceremony
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
More Ming Dynasty tea history this time. Innovations from China's tea artisans further improved the taste and experience of tea. The famous "zisha" 紫砂 clay teapots and tea ware from Yixing 宜兴 are introduced as well as their role in the Gongfu Tea Ceremony. As the second half of the Ming Dynasty starts to wind down in the late 16th-early 17th century, the Europeans will soon be knocking on China's door. They too will discover the goodness and greatness of tea with historic consequences.
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| 0:54.0 | Hey everyone, Lausl Montgomery again,lem-Mancumery again, T-history |
| 1:03.0 | podcast, episode 10 this time. |
| 1:05.0 | More Ming Dynasty stuff for you. |
| 1:08.0 | Last time we got a nice intro to the great porcelain capital of China, the city of Jing de Jun, just a little south of the |
| 1:16.5 | Yangtze River and west of Lake Pooh Yang in historic Jiangxi province without any further chit-chatting or yammering, let's keep going with the Ming Dynasty. |
| 1:28.0 | Tea leaves had gone from being |
| 1:33.0 | crushed and ground to powder in the song and finally in the ming |
| 1:36.5 | steeping leaves and boiled water. |
| 1:39.2 | Ju Cha to Mocha to Pocha to Pocha. |
| 1:43.0 | Beginning in the 14th century, the Ming rulers took a long time to finally fight off those |
| 1:49.0 | mongles and subdue them. This wasn't done until the time of Yongle. Horses were no less important than ever |
| 1:56.8 | before and something as important as the T-horse trading system remain critical to the dynasty's well-being. In the Ming, the horse trading offices |
| 2:06.4 | and Shanxi and Shanxi managed the trade. The Ming government controlled all export of tea. |
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