The Master of Simplicity shook out a small handful of the tea leaves and placed them into a small clay pot that stood by the side of the fire. “Now,” he said, turning to Lu Yu, “we have to perform the marriage of tea leaves and water.” He then lifted the pot of hot water, no longer dancing, and poured it very slowly into the pot with the leaves.
“We have to go slowly,” he said, “so that the water and the tea leaves can greet each other properly.”
Lu Yu had never heard anyone talk about tea in this way...
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