Course Overview
This intermediate-level professional tea artist course provides in-depth knowledge and practical skills for tea appreciation and ceremony. The curriculum is designed for those looking to advance their expertise in Chinese tea culture.
Course Outline
- Tea plant knowledge and quality identification
- Types and origins of tea utensils
- Porcelain and Yixing (purple clay) tea sets
- Matching tea sets with tea leaves
- Positioning and placement of tea utensils
- Tea ceremony demonstrations and related artworks
- Relationship between tea tasting and water quality
- Classification and selection of water for tea brewing
- Identification of tea grades and tea set quality
- Subdivision of tea leaves
- Tea processing and production
- Determination of tea quality and grades
- Tea ceremony performances for different tea types
- Pure brewing method and its characteristics
- Blended brewing method and its characteristics
- Green tea ceremony demonstration
- Types of tea
- Color, aroma types, taste, and shape of tea
- Determination of raw tea grades
- Quality assessment of refined tea
- Methods and key terminology for grading
- Etiquette and professional ethics of a tea artist
- Gaiwan (lidded bowl) brewing method demonstration
- Main components of tea leaves
- Identification and selection of common tea set quality
- Tea products
- Knowledge of tea and tea set pairing
- Yixing teapot brewing method demonstration
- Major Chinese famous teas and springs
Schedule & Details
- Start Date: August 22
- Schedule: Every Tuesday and Thursday
- Time: 19:00–22:00
- Total Sessions: 14 sessions
- Total Hours: 42 hours
Registration Information
- Registration Venue: Federation of Trade Unions Vocational Skills Training Centre (1st Floor, Block 1, Tai Ping Industrial Building, Rua do Comandante Mata e Oliveira)
- Contact: 28483454
Additional Course Information
A Professional Tea Artist - Beginner Level (DSEDJ Funded) course is also available.
Beginner Course Overview: Learn professional tea art techniques applicable for career development, daily life, and family use.
Beginner Course Schedule: Starts July 10, every Monday and Wednesday, 19:00–22:00, 12 sessions, 36 hours.
Beginner Course Outline: Introduction to the origin of tea, brewing techniques for various tea arts, pairing tea with utensils, identifying authentic tea, three essential elements of brewing, etiquette and professional ethics of a tea artist, tea picking, processing, and production, temperature requirements for brewing major tea types, distribution of famous Chinese teas and tea regions, characteristics of major tea types, impact of growing regions on tea quality, tea storage and preservation, etc.
