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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Gongfu Tea in Chaozhou

Sit down at Old Zheng's tray in Chaozhou: be offered gongfu tea, ask why only three cups, hear that Chaozhou people always use three, ask how long he has been brewing, hear fifty years, ask him to teach you, and hear that the water must boil.

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THE STORY

An afternoon in Old Zheng's teahouse in an old lane of Chaozhou, a clay pot the size of a fist and three small cups on the tray.

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功夫茶。gōngfuchágongfu tea, the small-pot tea of Chaozhou
您好。 请 坐， 喝 功夫茶。nín hǎo, qǐng zuò, hē gōngfucháHello. Sit, have gongfu tea. Politely.
三 个 杯子。sān ge bēizithree cups
怎么 只 有 三 个 杯子？zěnme zhǐ yǒu sān ge bēiziWhy only three cups?
这 壶 真 小！zhè hú zhēn xiǎoThis pot is so small!
潮州 人 都 是 三 个 杯子。cháozhōu rén dōu shì sān ge bēiziChaozhou people all use three cups.
您 泡 了 多 久 了？nín pào le duō jiǔ leHow long have you been brewing? Politely.
泡 了 五十 年 了。pào le wǔshí nián lefor fifty years now, word for word brewed fifty years, changed
我 泡 了 五十 年 了。wǒ pào le wǔshí nián leI've been brewing for fifty years.
我 泡 了 两 年 了。wǒ pào le liǎng nián leI've been brewing for two years.

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