A Tea Ceremony in the Yi Tradition
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Leah Li is Yi and a tea merchant in Pu’er, Yunnan Province. This is her family’s traditional tea ceremony, which is performed during cold nights and gatherings. The Yi people are an ethnic group dispersed across southwest China, usually in steep mountainous regions among wild tea trees.
This is a tea ceremony by the Yi ethnic group, a mountainous tribe in southwest China.
Now everything is combined, steeped with boiling water, and a flaming stick of pine resin
is added in for an extra layer of flavor.
The final result is a nutty sweet brew, balanced out by the bitterness of the pine.