Tea has a myriad of shapes. If I may speak vulgarly and rashly, tea may shrink and crinkle like a Mongol’s boots. Or it may look like the dewlap of a wild ox, some sharp, some curling as the eaves of a house. It can look like a mushroom in whirling flight just as clouds do when they float out from behind a mountain peak.
NPR looks at Ch’a Ching, or The Classic of Tea, the world’s oldest practical (and often poetic) guide to tea.
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