Archive for July, 2012

lu yü: the classic of tea

Friday, July 6th, 2012

The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. Lu Yü (d. [...]