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Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
- Tang Dynasty

The best quality tea must have the creases like the leather boots of

Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.

Kissing is like drinking tea through a tea-strainer; you're always thirsty afterwards.

Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like earth newly swept by rain. - Lu Wu

There is ordinary and ground tea. What is called cake tea is put in a bottle or jar after being pounded, and the boiling water is poured over it. Sometimes onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, and peppermint are used, and it is left to boil for some time before the froth is skimmed. Alas! this is the slop water of a ditch.
- Lu Wu

The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips,
The second banished all my loneliness
The third expelled the dullness from my mind,
Sharpening inspiration gained
from all the books I've read.
The fourth brought forth light perspiration,
Dispersing a lifetime's troubles through my pores.
The fifth bowl cleansed ev'ry atom of my being.
The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals.
This seventh...
I can take no more.
- Lu Tung, Chinese Poet