Cha no yu is the Japanese tea ceremony. It is an important tradition in Japan which in this crazy modern world gives you the moment of peace you need.
Today, I had the opportunity to see a little demonstration at Randez-Vous Café in the old part of Bucharest. The space was very small and there took place two events at the same time, a girl from Japan played at shamisen and two other girls from Romanian-Japanese Studies Center organized a tea ceremony demonstration.
I couldn’t be in two places at once so I chose the tea ceremony. The girls explained us what tea ceremony means in Japan and how important is the way it is realized. They also told us that everything has to be unitedly : the people, the objects, the nature .The atmosphere during the ceremony was very nice and all that silence gave you an inner peace. At the end of the ceremony, the “host” told us the names of the objects that she used, their importance and also how they were made.
In the end, they served tea to anyone who wanted to taste it. An interesting thing was that they served cookies and chocolate before tea the reason being that the green tea tastes bitter.
The organizers were very kind, answered our questions and explained to us the whole ceremony. They also told us that the ceremony was a very small one, because of the small place and the large number of people who wanted to see it, and suggested to us to come to the Romanian-Japanese Studies Center to see a real one.
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