Curios: Chinese Art Set in Stone

July 15, 2019

Fancy adding some teaware to your collection from the Paleozoic era? Consider owning a 470 million-year-old work of Mother Nature’s art. In 1996 in Guangxi Province, this stunning sedimentary stone - with Chinese characteristics - was serendipitously discovered in a mine 300 meters below sea level. When cut cross-wise it is befittingly named the 'Traditional Chinese Painting Stone'. [gallery link="file" size="medium" display="portfolio" wpmf_folder_id="1423,0,1423,1423" ids="11667,11659

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Jaq James

Jaq is an Australian who became a Chinese tea enthusiast after moving to Mount Wuyi, Fujian, in 2016. She was kindly taken under the wings of several lecturers of Wuyi University’s School of Tea Science for private tutorage. She has since travelled to different tea-producing provinces across China to learn more about Chinese tea culture. In 2018 she published a novella, called The Found One, about Mount Wuyi’s tea culture. She hopes to introduce many fellow Australians to the benefits of drinking fine teas through The Artisan Tea Hut.