this is a bit of an esoteric vent, but one of the things I noticed in online puerh/tea spaces is that there's a certain type of western-facing Tea Guy (usually a guy) who promotes product primarily based upon their "chaqi" or "body feel," sometimes even going so far as to throw shade at those […]

a lot of chinese terms also get rather confused when crossing between languages. this is why i generally try to avoid terms like yanyun, huigan, chaqi - I'm gaining my knowledge of these terms and what they pertain to in a rather plato's allegory of the cave manner

the likely reason what you call chaqi is absent in CTC tea is due to its nature as a tool of british colonial power. the CTC process largely equalises terroir, elevation, and grade. this enables the cheapest tea grown anywhere to compete with the most expensive tea

I'm not a big puerh guy, so the question of age on qi is probably best left to such people. I've heard people say it does change the chaqi. For huigan, that's probably a bit of both? This is where my knowledge ends. I wasn't lucky enough to drink puerh when it was too cheap not to :)

A perfect tea session doesn't just hydrate. It intoxicates.

That spellbinding moment when leaf, water, vessel, and mind align. Pure, quiet magic.

Have you felt “tea drunk”?

#Tea #TeaDrunk #ChaQi #Mindfulness #Ritual

Ooo! How is it making you feel? Good chaqi?

I love the yancha experience for the back-of-the-throat aroma and the chaqi through the second or third steep, but past that I often get edgy and jittery. Maybe not with every yancha but with most of them.

I made the mistake of not giving the first steep my full attention.

By the second steep, I learned this queen deserves my full attention.

Beautiful, full aroma. Gentle but expansive chaqi. I can feel it in my heart center and solar plexus.

Thank you, @teacuriousrie.bsky.social.

#teasky

American guy three wing flavored protein espresso martinis deep telling you chaqi doesn’t exist

Had this amazing #sheung #pu'erh with my girlfriend yesterday which had such POWERFUL #chaqi, the most I've ever felt. Had it once before and it's as good as I remember. Really lives up to the brand name, and it's cool to drink tea made by ethnic minority peoples in #China. Highly recommend 🍵💛

Finally decided on a birthday tea! Had to be something special, so I’m trying an aged raw puerh (from 2007) for the first time. Wow! I finally understand what shou puerh is going for (and don’t get me wrong, I do love shou). Waiting for the chaqi to kick in and wondering where this will go…