Enter a New Chinese Tea Phrase
Translation gongfu (Gong1 Fu1) = literally Work or Effort (工夫 or 功夫), signifying 2 different things in a tea context: (1) a brewing style, usually for oolong, using lots of leaf and many short steeps; (2) a stricter sense of 1 in which there are exactly five steeps and all the moves are prescribed in such a way that the timings of the steeps are a consequence of the choreography; (3) hongcha
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