冬茶会:维京灵感 Winter tea gathering: Chinese & swedish (viking time) Inspiration

There has been a long blog pause here last spring and summer, which is why I have not been able to post this winter tea gathering we tried last winter. So now I´m finally very happy to post it.

It was last winter, and we wanted to have some fun outdoor despite the cold, but what would be our theme or inspiration. I find picking up inspirations very creative and so I thought it was always fun.

Anyway, we were still at the west coast of Sweden by then, and what´s more fun than getting inspiration from what is well known about that area, and which actually play lots of inspiration in many of what people do in that area: the swedish ancient rock carving called Hällristning and activities that exist around that time.

The museum exhibiting this rock carving also demonstrate swedish old ways and livinghood like for example the way bread were baked during that time, which was the inspiration I got when I organized this tea gathering. Choice of tea: Nepal Oolong.

And as said it´s just an inspiration, because the real swedish old way of making bread in the bronze age is in what they called "kokgrop" and is far more complicated than what we tried to do here just for fun, but the inspiration was there and its great and fun!

And mind you, I don´t exactly know the significance, but looking at the taiwanese Gong Fu Cha around some activity that was inspired from the swedish bronze age is just: kind of surrealistic and beautiful. So enjoy and have fun with your own funtastic creation of tea gatherings, anywhere, from any inspiration and at any season!!

... for chadao ....

Text: 黄琼丝 /Celina Huang

Photo: En Kopp Zen Tehus

I always felt like (and, I thought, even look like) a pequin when walking on the snow

Preparation

Sun touching the Gong Fu Cha

Where we were going to start a fire

Fire started

Admiring this beautiful creation in the middle of the nature

Fire getting bigger

Fire warming everyone

The surrealistic look of Gong Fu Cha around some old swedish inspired food activity

Tea water on boiling

Tea water ready

Dough making

Dough Ready

Swedish preserved herring to accompany the bread

Just like in tea ceremonies: the ceremony of admiring arts

Swedish metal handcraft from the north of Sweden

... with old swedish symbols carved on it

bread ready

butter on bread

I love butter and sill on bread

I used to think butter and herring on bread an odd combination at first, but actually yummy as soon as I got used to the idea.. 

and more bread to eat ...