Who are you?

Want to learn how to brew tea?
It’s easy!
Go on youtube, then you will find many interesting video’s.
But,
Does that make you a tea sommelier?
Even if you know about tea, but again does it mean you know what and how to become a Cha Ren (茶人, a Tea Wo/Man)?
Even if you know all the above, does it mean you know what does tea culture represent? what are behind and how?
 
At end, the question is ‘WHO ARE YOU?”
 
Who are you?
An artist who knows how to show the tea art?
or
Someone who has the pre-conceived idea about tea?
or
Someone actually has gone through training? For how many hours / days? How much do you really know? Are you sure you have learned enough?
or
Someone who appreciates and loves tea?
or
Someone who is committed to the life time learning?
or
Simply someone who knows the essence of keeping head down and how to enjoy and appreciates the learning behind tea leaves?
or…
 
Well, the list of question can go on and on and on and on…….
and how often you honestly confront these questions with yourself before trying to convince others?
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By Mei Lan Hsiao

Even though her family has nothing to do with tea, but she learnt the importance of consuming tea correctly in daily healthy diet based on the Chinese traditional medicine principles in Yin-Yang and 5 elements from her family when she was very young. She entered the tea learning in Taiwan since 1985, left her root because of marriage in 1991 helped her to expand her learning from original inward-out views to 360 degree. She started to promote the authentic knowledge about tea and wisdom in Chinese tea culture in Belgium since 1995. Tea has always been and will continue be her best teacher. In front of Nature and Tea, she remains as an innocent child, a life-time learning student.

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