Teahouse Waitress - Utamaro Kitagawa

 

A Half Length Portrait of Naniwaya Okita, 

the Famous Teahouse Waitress Serving a Cup of Tea  

by Utamaro Kitagawa 

Tea House Girl  by Utamaro Kitagawa 

Takigawa from the Tea-House, Ogi

A Tribute to the Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773

Boston Tea Party, a Protest against British Taxes Before the American Revolution, c.1773

The Boston Tea Party

Keep Calm and Put The Kettle On

Nicotine and Tea

Tea, attention all smokers

We would generally refer to tea as a plant or its derivatives being infused or steeped in boiling water and ingested for a health benefit.
Since ancient times, in the folklore of the West, a cup of mint tea has been used for indigestion or a cup of chamomile tea to calm and aid in achieving a good nights sleep.
Traditional Chinese tea also, according to ancient folklore is rooted in health benefits. It is commonly believed in China that tea drinking first began with the Empower Shen Nong in the 3rd, millennium BC.
It was then, and still is praised for its digestive aiding properties and generally consumed during, and or after eating. 

A recent study has shown tea’s unique ability to hasten the discharge of nicotine from smoker’s bodies. By the way nicotine is one of the main ingredients in many weed and insect killing pesticides.

Follow the links for more information:

http://voices.yahoo.com/can-green-tea-remove-nicotine-body-10498721.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/521539-does-green-tea-rid-the-body-of-nicotine/

Tea In Timbuktu

Tuareg Men Preparing for Tea Ceremony Outside a Traditional Homestead, Timbuktu, Mali  

by Ariadne Van Zandbergen

A Tribute to the Mad hatter's Tea Party

The Mad Tea Party  by Arthur Rackham

Mad Tea Party

The Hatter's Mad Tea Party the Hatter and the Hare Put the Dormouse in the Tea-Pot  by John Tenniel

Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party  by John Tenniel

Le Lotus Bleu: Tintin with Tea Sketch by Hergé (Georges Rémi)

 

As dedicated as the cartoon character he invented, Belgian artist Georges Rémi created Tintin adventures up until his death. 

Exceptionally popular with adults and children, the artist better known as Hergé (1907 – 1983) was one of Europe’s most influential comic artists. 

His character Tintin was a young reporter accompanied by his faithful fox terrier as they fought the world’s evils.

 Hergé often expressed his controversial, right-wing opinions through Tintin, and his signature, fluid style influenced numerous Brussels’ school cartoonists.

Tea Ceremony - Japanese Woodblock

Taking Tea Together - An Historical Time Piece

This image comes from the historical archives of LIFE Magazine.

Philosopher Writer Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Taking Tea Together

The history of Taiping Houkui

Taiping Houkui is a famous Chinese tea created in 1900. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Nanjing Ye Changchun Tea House was opened in Xinming tea area, Taiping County and started tea-purchasing business. In order to gain profits, the boss separated young leaves out of the end product and sold them to Nanjing and other cities with a high price. Wang Lao'er, a tea grower in Houkeng, then learned from the practice. He picked stout and young tea leaves featuring two leaves and one bud from the Fenghuang Jian Tea Plantation, which were carefully processed into Wang Lao'er Kuijian Tea. Because of its top quality among its kind, it was named “Houkui” after the producing area Houkeng.
In 1915, Taiping Houkui was awarded the Gold Medal in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. In 1955 after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, it was again listed as one of the Top Ten Famous Teas in China.

By Explore Cultural China

The legend of Taiping Houkui tea

As the legend goes, once upon a time when a villager went to pick tea leaves in a mountain, he suddenly smelled some faint and refreshing scent luring him to search everywhere for the place of origin. Finally he found several tea plants between rocks high above the precipices but no way to get there. Later, he found a monkey to climb up the cliff and pick the tea for him in harvesting season, which was hence named "houkui (Monkey Picked Tea)".

By Explore Cultural China