2022.06.15 09:30 GMT+8

Painting on tea soup: China's 1,000-plus-year-old 'coffee art'

Updated 2022.06.15 12:17 GMT+8
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Chabaixi, or painting on tea soup, is a unique technique that creates a pattern on the surface of tea soup via water injection and agitation. First appeared in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and reached its heyday in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), it became a cultural favor of Chinese literati. 

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