ETIQUETTE OF CHINA TEA.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2660, 19 May 1908, Page 7

ETIQUETTE OF CHINA TEA.

The etiquette pertaining to teadrinking in China is curious. If a lady asks you to drink tea with her —and especially if the tea he sweetened—you can count yourself as well received and much liked. if she does not like you. the tea is bitter, and report has it that in cases of Jthis soft druiirings are often used. Of cotirse, it is needless to say that after one sip of such tea the unlikcd visitor makes a prompt exit ! .When paying a call, if the servant should In ing in a cup of tea there is no need to take any' particular notice of it. Allow the servant to place it where he likes near you, and continue your conversation as though nothjng had happened. If your business is pleasant and agreeable to the mistress or the master of the house, he or she will pass tho beverage to you : if not. you are expected to leavef\t untouched, otherwise you are likely to have a qtiarr#l on hand, and a Chinese quarrel—. either with a man or a woman—is unileasant.