Teahouses and Tea Customs · FFET10078
Chaozhou Gongfu Tea Art
Chaozhou gongfu tea art is in the second national heritage batch under folk customs, and its page says oolong is the main tea.
A hand pours water from a long-spouted copper kettle into a lidded tea bowl from a height, the lid set by its saucer, beside them sit a dish of tea leaves and a platter of pastries, and a stone bridge and waterside houses lie behind.
Tea in teahouses, and everyday tea customs such as the lidded bowl and the pouring of tea.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, the item "Tea Art (Chaozhou Gongfu Tea Art)" is classed as a folk custom, declared by Chaozhou, Guangdong, and was added to the second batch of the national representative list in 2008; the protection unit is the Chaozhou Cultural Centre. The item page says Chaozhou gongfu tea "began in the Song", "had become widespread by the middle of the Qing", takes oolong as its main tea, brews by "a fixed set of steps" that include named moves such as "Guan Gong patrols the city" and "Han Xin musters his troops", and needs urgent protection.