Hui (惠) , blessing; Liang (量), accumulate. The founder says he wants it to be not just a tea house, but a place accumulate people's power and blessing. There are more than 50 classes in HuiLiang every week: Chinese tea, Chinese incense, Taoism and FengShui, Calligraphy, Chinese painting, ancient Chinese Classic etc. Since I need to collect my video material, I have visited almost every class and every time I am moved and amazed by the wisdom contained in the ancient Chinese traditions:
"Different people have different opinions about drinking tea: some people focus on tea itself, some on the water, and more experienced tea drinkers will focus on the sunshine and soil that breeds the tea."
"You can find almost everything in life in a cup of tea. Take marriage for example, every relationship goes from the original intense love/taste to a more insipid state. Three factors affect the performance of the tea: the amount of the tea, the temperature of the water and the timing you get the soup. If you like a more strong flavor/intense love, you can make the first few pours very strong but it won't last long. You can also choose to put more tea, but even so, it goes to the insipid taste finally. Insipid doesn't mean boring, it means all the love finally goes to the specific/basic life, like eating, drinking, sex, etc. Just like tea is not necessity in life, but water is. You can choose to get a new cup of tea if you are bored (just like you divorce because you feel bored with the person), but it won't take you long to realize the next cup of tea will finally get insipid finally. "
Anyway, I will share more about the "HuiLiang.ZHOU studio" works in the future. This time, I'm going to post the two year anniversary gift I made for them here and hope you will like it.
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