last weekend, i went out to visit a special place in Ho Chi minh city where i learned a lot of new experience. That is Kissaten japanese tea house on Nguyen Dinh Chieu street. I have a business with them in designing the website for this tea house. At first, when I received the task, I did not know anything about japanese tea and art. I had to spend time to search information from internet. And I have learned a lot new things about japaness tea ceremony. I also spend time with my client who is the boss of kissaten tea house for chating about the japanese tea art. It is not easy for any people understand the process of tea ceremony just by watching. The process now is simplied by removing all the unnecessary steps from the past. They just keep the most basic and importand process. Further more, the most importand is the soul or feeling of the girl who make tea. she must be cleanness not in the body but also in the soul. Just for example, in some TV show about tea ceremony. When the a girl perform the tea ceremoney process. She dresses up and wearing some stuff like ring or neckledge, because she wants to be nice in front of camera. She performs the tea ceremony in the right process. However, there are very simple thing that she forgot, she does not allow to wear a lot of nice stuffs such as ring or neckledge when she performs tea ceremony.
Japanese has make drinking tea become a style of art. that require both tea maker and the tea drinker have to understand the meaning of tea ceremony.
I would like to introduce to you the famous japanese scroll paper about tea ceremony.
the four virtues of the tea ceremony are: harmony, respect, purity and tranquility.
This beautiful scroll is an original work by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase.
If you understand about Zen, you wil know that its meaning.
If you want to know more, pls visit the link below.
http://web-japan.org/factsheet/tea/tea_c.html
Hope you guys also can learn and explore a new experience.
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