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Three Realms of Drinking Pu-erh Tea

Tea News · Nov 18, 2025

 

Pu-erh Tea as a material symbol of Pu-erh tea embodies three main characteristics of Yunnan's ethnic culture: inclusiveness, openness, and harmony. Due to its unique physical properties, cultural background, and contemporary cultural construction, Pu-erh tea has become a symbolic representation of Yunnan's ethnic culture. Below is an introduction to the three realms of drinking Pu-erh tea.

 

 

First Realm: Utilitarian Realm

Tea for official occasions, business settings, workplaces, and romantic situations;

Pu-erh tea serves as the best diluent, lubricant, or adhesive in interpersonal relationships: the drinker's interest lies not in the wine, and the purpose of Pu-erh need not be solely about the tea;

 

 

Second Realm: Poetic Realm

Drinking alone under the moonlight (not like Li Bai's wine drinking), small gatherings with friends, beautiful moons and flowers, spring dreams and narrow paths.

Pu-erh tea becomes an elevated aspect of our lifestyle, with the essence in tea but the elevation not departing from tea: thus, because of Pu-erh tea, our lives may still be ordinary, but less dull.

 

 

Third Realm: Harmony between Heaven and Human

This is the highest realm of drinking Pu-erh tea, where one need not concern themselves with the tea's age, raw or ripe type, nor pay attention to vessels and objects, nor focus on color and aroma. Here, one only feels spiritual clarity, with people and tea, songs and wine; the warmth of the firepit, the fragrance boiling in the clay pot; weaving fences as tables, cutting bamboo as cups; though physically in a poor thatched cottage, one actually feels extremely richly luxurious at this moment; but you need not be moved, for being moved would create distance from yourself.

 

 

The above introduces the three realms of drinking Pu-erh tea. Friendly reminder: Pu-erh tea can effectively provide relief through various functions such as detoxification, stomach nourishment, inflammation reduction, cholesterol lowering, beauty and weight loss... health benefits. Many women particularly consider drinking Pu-erh tea as a good method for weight loss and beauty enhancement.

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