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Burrell Bites: Everything Stops For Tea!

Join Burrell Collection Curator Yupin Chung for a unique talk exploring the spirit of tea drinking and learn the fascinating story of how Chinese tea culture shaped the world.

Burrell Bites: Everything Stops For Tea!

About Burrell Bites: Everything Stops For Tea!

30th April 2025
12.30pm - 1pm
The Burrell Collection
2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow South Side G43 1AT
This is a free event
Event organiser/part of Glasgow Museums

Whether enjoyed in evening moonlight or surrounded by early morning dew, tea is a refreshing way to cleanse and comfort the soul, both in historical and modern times.

This Jizhou tea bowl 吉州窯茶盞, a refined ceramic ware for drinking tea during the Song and the Yuan dynasties. Tea was brewed for pleasure as well as healing purposes. If tea has become more than an idealization of a form of drinking, and the way it is experienced by a connoisseur develops an aesthetic style of life, then one question concerns the relationship of tea to a way of self-transformation. Consequently, drinking tea is a way of communicating with objects as a spiritual act.

Image: A JIZHOU RESIST-DECORATED PAPER-CUT TEA BOWL© CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

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