A friend in Shanghai started his day with a pipefull of tobacco and some strong tea. The pot was peculiarly suited to the season, being a pumpkin shaped purple clay item, squatty and bulbous, of pleasingly vegetal dimension.
No, I do not know what he was smoking.
The tea was a lesser souchong (小種).
Over the years I've written some posts anent the subjects of tea and ceramics.
PURPLE CLAY STONEWARE (紫砂壺) AND METICULOUSLY BREWED TEA (功夫茶)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
Dim sum, hairy crab king, firing temperatures, and the civilized tastes of the scholar class.
POTTERY AND PORCELAIN: TERMS EXPLAINED
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015
Glazes, hues, and iron oxide, and reduction firing.
Enamelesque luminescence, feldspar!
LAPSANG SOUCHONG TEA AND OTHER TASTES
FRIDAY, MARCH 08, 2013
Terpeneols, steeping bowls, English people, and maintaining the proper caffeine-fueled mental alertness
It is presently early on Friday, a day of rest.
Several days of work are yet to come.
I shall spend the morning swilling a fine pouchong (包種) brewed in a lovely globular pot, the smallest of my bamboo motif Yi-hsing vessels.
Soon I shall be high as a kite.
And I shall smoke a pipe.
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