The three-piece set for tea-drinking in Chengdu

In Chengdu’s tea-drinking custom, there has been always the “three-piece set”, namely the “gai-wan-cha” with the tea cup, the lid and the tea tray.

In Chengdu, tea houses don’t use tea pots to make tea. It is even rare to use Yixing dark-red enameled pots to make tea. Generally, tea cups and lids are porcelains from Jingde Zhen, while tea trays are made from tin and tea pots are copper tea pots. The tea made with these tea sets is of appropriate color, fragrance, taste and form, and most important of all, of proper Sichuan flavor.

Source:Xinhua

Editor:Jinxin