Bazi Tea Ceremony
- First Step: Go to the hearth and check to make sure there is enough water then go to the servery, and place a copper teapot, three tiny cups, bowls of yellow and white sugars with spoons and the speciality tin of Bazi Tea leaves upon a silver tray.
- Second Step: Return to the hearth, fill the teapot with the boiling water. allowing the water to fulling warm the pot then swirl the water around and pour it out, then refill the teapot again with boiling water.
- Third Step: Carry the tray to the Master/Mistress being served, kneel before Them to prepare the tea placing the traying to your side.
- Fourth Step: Place three pinches of Bazi Tea leaves into each cup, pour hot water into each and swirl it around. Then in the first cup, add four spoons of the white sugar, stirring it... then six spoons of yellow sugar in the second cup, stirring it... and the same of each sugar to the third cup and stir it. (the sugar may be added to each cup all at once..or inbetween the offering and drinking of one cup to the next)
- Fifth Step: Kiss the side of each cup, lifting each cup, bowed head arms extending in offering, telling what each cup represents... The first cup signifies the bitter first fruits of life... The second cup signifies the contentment of adulthood... The third signifies the enlightenment that comes with experience and old age... wait for the Master/Mistress to drink each before moving on to the next
Serving Bazi Tea by the Books
"She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure." Tribesmen of Gor - page 89
"'Make me tea,' I said.
Lifting her skirt the girl went to the tent, to make tea. . . 'I
feared, when first I saw you,' said the girl, measuring the tea,
from a tiny tin box, 'that you had come to carry me off. . . '
'Perhaps not,' I said. Her hands shook, slightly, on the metal
box of tea. . . 'You, yourself,' she said, 'have made me make
your tea.' 'Is it ready?', I asked. I looked at the tiny copper
kettle on the small stand. . . A small, heavy, curved glass was
nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of
the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time,
carefully measured. . . I set the tea down on the sand, between
two mats, beside me. I did not think it would spill. . . 'Serve us
tea,' he said. Trembling she measured him a tiny glass of tea.
'The tea is excellent,' I said." Tribesman of Gor - page 139
"Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and heavily sugared. It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured." Tribesman of Gor -- page 38
"There was a cup and a pitcher of Bazi tea on the counter. Bazi tea is a common beverage on Gor. Many Goreans are fond of it." Kajira of Gor -- page 332
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