As an important part of the culture, a significant feature of the historic tradition and a great deal of everyone’s personal habits, making tea was locally fi ner with complexity and fashion than drinking tea.
Where there was a family in Chaozhou, there was more than a ceramic tea set. Usually a tea set consisted of six, eight or ten tiny cups as Chinese lucky numbers; a tea pot to hold the tea with tea leaves in it; another tea pot with a diff erent shape and a strainer to pour tea; one or two wooden tweezers to wash the cups with the fi rst-made hot tea; a square or round container for the waste water or tea and other small accessories. The folks could make three to six rounds of tea at a time and drink at least four or fi ve times per day. In their lives, drinking tea was essential.