The Taste Of Tea: Tea Ceremony As A Mode Of Bodily Cultivation

The tea ceremony is one of the most iconic elements of Chinese traditional culture that has gradually developed into a mode of bodily cultivation. Watch Kunbing Xiao, Associate Professor of anthropology at Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, demonstrate a tea ceremony as an integrated and embodied performance that requires mind, body, taste, vision, smell, and touch to work sequentially in order to create a symbiotic relationship between humans and tea. The ceremony was performed at NYU Shanghai as part of a presentation on tea in Chinese culture organized by the Center for Global Asia.