Iron Crotch

[Drunk Monk]

Chinese tea ceremony is pretty much just sitting around having tea. It's very different from the formality of Japanese tea ceremony, which is painfully rigid. Typically, there's a water cleansing where all the tea instruments are warmed with hot water - the pot, the tiny cups, and the tea familiar (a little clay statue) - over a reed tray, over a clay water collection tray (sometimes an entire table designed for this function, in which case the familiar is usually built in). The first brew is tossed. The second brew begins the infusions. If gongfu cha (literally Kung Fu tea - and yes, it's the same kung fu as in kung fu) is done properly, each infusion will bring out different flavors. It takes a refined palette to get the delicate changes and gongfu cha masters refrain from strong food and drink (no alcohol or coffee) to purify themselves. 

Using music to balance qi is common. Many advocate that martial artists need to practice something yin - music, painting, tea, calligraphy, cooking - to balance all the yang qi in kung fu. GM2 is a strong advocate of this, obvs. 

Here's an old piece I did that covers the 5 types of qigong, just in case I had not shared it with you before: https://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php...rticle=471
Note that the 5 types are not universally accepted as so, although the Chinese have a penchant for 5s. Here's another piece I just wrote about 5s: https://ymaa.com/articles/2024/07/why-do...ve-seasons