There, we would learn how to perform a tea ceremony. After cleansing our hands with rose water, we took our seats at the long table. Our instructor, Xiao Xing Xing, began quietly making the tea.

The origins of the Japanese tea ceremony can be traced back to around 815 A.D. when a Buddhist monk named Eichu returned from China and introduced tea to Emperor Saga of Japan. As tea drinking ...

Traditionally, the Chinese tea ceremony was done with the bride's elders first at her home, and then with the groom's elders ...

President Luong Cuong and Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni shared a traditional Vietnamese tea ceremony during their visit to ...