This is an interesting read. I had read some of it before but not all of it. This reminds me of the gongfu method of tea preparation, which acquired a sort of

This is an interesting read. I had read some of it before but not all of it. This reminds me of the gongfu method of tea preparation, which acquired a sort of reputation of being the "authentic" means of tea making in certain circles but turns out to be fairly modern outside of a specific region of China. Like the author interviewed in the piece, Lawrence Zhang has received a certain amount of animosity for writing about it (https://marshaln.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/GFC1601_06_Zhang-3.pdf https://marshaln.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/GFC1601_06_Z...).