茶 禪 一 味

Find Your Tea.
Find Your Stillness.

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情緒入口 · Mood Entry

Not which tea is best.
Which tea is for you, now.

The entry point is not a catalogue. It is a state of mind — pick the one closest to this hour and we will name the tea for it. 入口不是目錄,而是此刻的心境——擇一相近者,我們為你指出那盞茶。

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品牌理念 · Chazen Philosophy

Black as foundation. Green as life. Simplicity as luxury.

One cup. One breath. One return. Tea is not a product here — it is the interval between two thoughts.

使命 · What we are for

To make Chinese tea the easiest door into a quieter hour — without making it smaller than it is. Most of what is sold as "wellness tea" has had the culture taken out to make it go down easier. We would rather teach the thing than thin it.

願景 · Where it goes

A tea house that is not a room. The ritual should travel — to a desk at four in the afternoon, a kitchen before anyone else is awake, a hotel on the wrong side of a time zone. Somewhere to sit down inside your own day.

茶與禪 · Tea and stillness

Half of this is not the leaf. It is the water coming to heat, the first pour, the pause before you drink it. Monks kept tea through centuries because it holds attention still without dulling it — the same reason it is worth keeping now.

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AI 茶測試 · AI Tea Test

Four questions.
One cup that fits.

你帶來的 · What you bring

睡眠Sleep

專注Focus

壓力Stress

易怒Irritable

過度思考Overthinking

平靜能量Calm energy

四個問題 · The four questions

01 狀態State

Where your body and mind sit at this moment.

02 生活問題Daily friction

Sleep, focus, digestion — the honest daily friction.

03 茶方向The turn

The model maps mood and need onto tea families.

04 推薦結果Result

A recommendation, with the reasoning shown.

它給回的 · What comes back

左邊六項即第二節的六種情緒,右邊七類即第八節的七大茶類。測試所做的,是把兩者接起來。 The six on the left are section 02's moods. The seven on the right are section 08's families. The test is the part in between, and no line is drawn across it here because the answer depends on yours.

Five cups on a dark table, a hand choosing between them by lamplight.
開始測試 Take the test
Hands pouring tea from a yixing pot in warm light

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茶儀式 · Tea Ritual

Six movements,
eight minutes.

The ritual is the product. The leaf is what makes it possible.

一 溫器Warm 器The vessel
二 置茶Place 茶The leaf
三 醒茶Wake 茶The leaf again
四 聞香Scent 香The aroma
五 出湯Pour 湯The liquor
六 慢飲Drink —無對象 · No object

前五者皆為「動詞+對象」,唯第六者「慢飲」為「副詞+動詞」,無對象可讀。 Five of the six names are verb plus object. 慢飲 is adverb plus verb, so the last cell has nothing to put in it.

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朝代長卷 · The Dynasty Scroll

Fourteen hundred years,
six ways to drink it.

Change the vessel and you change the drink. These are not illustrations of the history — they are the history.

A patinated bronze cauldron with a bamboo ladle, steam rising from clouded tea.

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618–907

唐

Tang

法 Method
Boiled with salt · 煮茶加鹽
茶 Tea
Steamed compressed cake · 餅茶
器 Vessel
Cauldron and ladle · 鍑與杓
人 Figure
Traditional portrait of Lu Yu seated, a blue tea jar and a white ewer on a stand before him. Lu Yu · 陸羽 733–804

Lu Yu wrote The Classic of Tea and gave the practice a vocabulary — source, water, fire, vessel, conduct. Drinking became something that could be done well or badly.

陸羽著《茶經》,為茶事立下語彙——產地、水、火、器、儀節。飲茶自此有了高下之分。

Pale foam raised in a dark Jian ware bowl with a bamboo whisk.

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960–1279

宋

Song

法 Method
Whisked to foam · 點茶擊拂
茶 Tea
Beiyuan dragon-and-phoenix cakes · 北苑龍鳳團茶
器 Vessel
Jian bowl and whisk · 建盞與茶筅
人 Figure
Hanging-scroll portrait of Emperor Huizong seated in red court robes and a black winged cap. Emperor Huizong · 宋徽宗 1082–1135

Black-glazed Jian bowls existed to make pale foam visible. Competitions were judged on the colour of the froth and how long it clung to the wall of the bowl.

黑釉建盞正為顯出白沫而生。鬥茶所較者,在沫色,亦在其咬盞之久暫。

A Yuan blue-and-white porcelain flask, cobalt flowers under a clear glaze.

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1271–1368

元

Yuan

法 Method
Two methods at once · 點茶與泡茶並行
茶 Tea
Cake, loose and wax tea together · 餅茶、散茶與蠟茶並存
器 Vessel
Blue-and-white takes over · 青花漸興
人 Figure
Portrait of Zhao Mengfu in a wide-brimmed hat, a later copy of an earlier painting. Zhao Mengfu · 趙孟頫 1254–1322

The era every tea history skips. Two ways of drinking ran side by side: the court still whisked powder, while ordinary households simply steeped loose leaf. The habit that would define the Ming started here, at the bottom.

元代為茶史所略。宮廷猶行點茶,民間已直接沖泡散茶。明代泡茶之風,實始於此,始於民間。

An unglazed Yixing clay pot pouring a steeped infusion into a small cup.

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1368–1644

明

Ming

法 Method
Loose leaf steeped · 散茶沖泡
茶 Tea
Pan-fired loose-leaf green · 炒青綠茶
器 Vessel
Yixing pot · 宜興紫砂壺
人 Figure
Court portrait bust of the Hongwu Emperor in a yellow dragon robe, inscribed 大明太祖高皇帝. The Hongwu Emperor · 明太祖 1328–1398

The Hongwu Emperor abolished compressed tribute cakes in 1391, and the whole grammar of tea changed with them. Shape and fragrance became visible for the first time.

洪武二十四年,明太祖罷造團茶,茶之章法自此全改。葉形與香氣,至此方為人所見。

A gongfu tea table seen from above: gaiwan, fairness cup and small tasting cups.

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1644–1912

清

Qing

法 Method
Short repeated infusions · 功夫短沖
茶 Tea
Oolong, and the first black teas · 烏龍與正山小種
器 Vessel
Gaiwan and cups · 蓋碗與品茗杯
人 Figure
Court portrait of the Qianlong Emperor enthroned in yellow dragon robes and a summer hat. The Qianlong Emperor · 乾隆帝 1711–1799

Gongfu method: a small vessel, a high leaf ratio, and many short pours rather than one long one. The same leaf is read across a dozen infusions — the form Chazen still brews by.

功夫茶法:器小、投葉多,以數泡短沖代一泡久浸。同一葉,於十數道中逐次展讀——此即 Chazen 今日所依之法。

Whole green tea leaves steeping in a white gaiwan on a wooden teahouse table.

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1912–present

現代

Modern

法 Method
Every method at once · 諸法並存
茶 Tea
All six categories · 六大茶類俱全
器 Vessel
All of them, and the teabag · 諸器兼備,兼有袋泡
人 Figure
Photographic portrait of Wu Juenong in a suit and glasses, 1949. Wu Juenong · 吳覺農 1897–1989

Gongfu, gaiwan, Western steeping and the teabag all coexist. The newest thing in tea is a return: in 2009 the Song foam-painting art was reconstructed from the texts, and in 2017 Wuyishan listed it as intangible heritage.

工夫、蓋碗、西式沖泡與袋泡茶並行於世。而茶事之最新者乃是回歸:二〇〇九年,宋代茶百戲自典籍中復原;二〇一七年,武夷山列之為非物質文化遺產。

走過十三個世紀 Read the thirteen centuries in full →

Portraits, public domain: Emperor Huizong and the Hongwu Emperor, Song and Ming court painters. The Qianlong Emperor by Giuseppe Castiglione 郎世寧, 1736. Lu Yu after Haruki Nanmei 春木南溟, 1841 — a later imagining; no portrait from his lifetime survives. Zhao Mengfu after Wang Gong 汪恭, 19th century, and the Yuan flask, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chengdu teahouse, 2015, photograph by Daderot. Wu Juenong, 1949.

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茶類地圖 · Tea Atlas

Six families,
and the scented one.

Every Chinese tea comes from one plant, Camellia sinensis. What separates them is oxidation — how long the leaf is allowed to breathe.

不發酵 · Unoxidised 順序為發酵由淺至深 · In order of oxidation 全發酵 · Fully oxidised

黑茶Dark · Pu-erh 後發酵 · Off the axis — microbial, and still going

格中之色為該茶湯色,非葉色。葉不告訴你發酵到哪裡,湯會。 Each cell is filled with that family's brewed liquor, not its leaf. The leaf is what the photographs below show, and it is the one thing that does not tell you where the oxidation stopped.

See where each one grows →

A Da Hong Pao tea box: a red book-form carton with the Wuyi cliffs printed in gold across the face and a gold seal set into the spine.
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大紅袍Da Hong Pao

武夷岩茶。火與石的味道,養在一只盒子裡。 Wuyi rock oolong. Fire and stone, kept in a single box.
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封緘The seal

金印壓在紅紙上,是收藏的記號,不是裝飾。 A gold seal pressed into red paper. A collector’s mark, not an ornament.
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山水The mountain

武夷的岩壁,印在盒面上。像書一樣立在架上。 The Wuyi cliffs, printed across the face. It stands on a shelf like a book.
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開盒Open it

一杯,一息,一返。 One cup. One breath. One return. 看整個收藏See the collection →

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茶園 · The Gardens

Every cup begins on a hillside someone climbed.

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自訂與企業禮盒 · Build a box

Pack the box
yourself.

Choose the teas one at a time and they arrive in a single box — the price is simply what you chose. 逐款選茶,同裝一盒;價即所選。

自訂茶禮盒 Pack your own box

Ordering for a company · 企業茶禮

簡報 · Brief 一位專人 · One contact 交付 · Delivery

01 訂製設計Bespoke design

Your brief, our packaging language.

02 批量條件Volume terms

Tiered pricing on confirmed quantity.

03 專責服務Dedicated service

One contact from brief to delivery.

04 品牌故事Brand story

A printed insert that explains the tea.

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日誌 · Journal

Knowledge, stories,
and the aesthetics of daily life.