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Late Ming Tea Drinkers And Connoisseurs

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Besides this changed way of tea production, the late Ming tea drinkers and connoisseurs created new ways to evaluate the water for tea drinking. The first phenomenon was that the term Xiang (fragrant), which is related to the sense of smell, was brought up in the conversation on water choice during tea drinking. The representative works on water for tea drinking came from Xu Xianzhong (1469-1545) and Tian Yiheng (1524-?), both of whom were Ming-dynasty writers, tea drinkers, and connoisseurs. Xu’s brochure titled Shuipin (Water Tasting) specifically focusing on drinking water, and he believed that drinking water was one of the most important factors of tea tasting. Tian, from a Hangzhou scholar-official family, not only had accepted both the
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