Description

This method of tea ceremony is called Wudang Dao Cha 武当道茶 [wǔ dāng dào chá].

The Daoist Tea Ceremony will take 40 minutes. We are going to introduce and taste 3 Wudang mountain teas, which you can choose from our samples box…

All Teas are from our own tea farm in Wudang Shan/China, with pure high-mountain fragrances.

Dicover the mystery of Wudang Wild Tea

Tasting tea and learning the daoist theory and philosophy.

We recommend to also purchase this Matching tea samples box

After booking the course we will contact you for setting a date.

 

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Additional information:

Chinese family has a tradition of serve tea to guests, regarding to the Daoist Scriptures, this tradition is from Daoism. In the Spring and Autumn period, when Laozi (Lao-tzu) left Hangu strategic pass, he asked the pass guard Yin Xi to welcome him at home and could serve him tea firstly “首献茗”, Laozi said, people who appreciate tea after eating, you are all on the same way, they should be all disciples of Daoism “食是茶者，皆汝之道徒也”. Laozi was the first person who treated tea as the daoists’ hospitality and brought tea into daoist and Chinese traditional rites. Laozi left “Dao De 5000 Words” to Yin Xi, then Yin Xi lived in seclusion and cultivated himself with the 5000 words, he sorted all words out into the book, what we know as <Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching)>. Read More

Wudang Mountian is in Hubei Province, which has a long history of producing good tea: in the <History of Song Dynasty 宋史> recorded that in the Song Dynasty, Wudang Daoist Chen Tuan was fond of drinking tea Read More. and in the Yuan Dynasty documents, Wudang daoists planted and produced tea by themselves. Wudang Qian Lin 骞林 tea had been paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty’s imperial court for 200 years, and in the <Collected Taoist Scriptures 道藏> , a picture called “Qian Lin Ying Xiang Tu骞林应祥图” described the grand occasion of harvesting, producing and paying tribute Qian Lin tea. the Qing Dynasty poems records that Wudang daoists brewed tea to receive guests.

In the <Ming Dynasty Xiang Mansion Tea Nunnery Inscription Record大明襄府茶庵碑记>, since in the Ming Dynasty it prevailed that, people from the whole nation went on pilgrimages to offer incense on the Wudang Mountain, these believers needed to climb up mountains to reach the golden peak, King Xiang decided to build a tea nunnery in order to serve these believers tea water. This stela now is kept in the Wudang Museum. <Zhou Mansion Tea Nunnery 周府茶庵> of <Wudang Travel Notes Twenty-four Pictures武当纪游二十四图> was painted by Zhou Kai (Qing Dynasty) and followed by three poems, he stopped for a rest there and drank tea with a young daoist Ye Wenmei, they both were interested in drinking tea and writing poems. After his first visit, Zhou Kai revisited the nunnery another two times. This painting describes the Zhou masion tea nunnery that built by Ming Dynasty King Zhou on the ancient Wudang pilgrimage road.