Capítulo 42: Chapter 42: Rehearsal for the Transfer Student Assessment

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"The taste truly was different."

After drinking the freshly brewed hot tea, the flavor had indeed improved, not just a little bit.

Gulp.

Drinking tea on an empty stomach wasn't good for the body. Xia Yu rubbed his stomach, took a few more sips of tea, savoring it, and then reluctantly set down the teacup.

His eyes were bright.

The tea ceremony was the art of appreciating the beauty of tea.

It was a form of lifestyle art, a life etiquette, and also a way of self-cultivation.

The earliest and most complete tea ceremony was the Tang Dynasty's Lu Yu's boiled tea ceremony.

Xia Yu used to think that the tea ceremony was all for show, that the complex rituals were just for display. Over the past two years, through the old man's teachings, his perspective had changed.

The meticulousness of the tea art was akin to culinary skills.