Mengyao ZhaoHongyuan Jiang

TEA

Drinkable: Tea is one of the top three drinks in the world. Chines tea includes Green Tea, Black Tea, Oolong Tea, White Tea and Yellow Tea. All of them have their typical tastes.

Regional: Different countries have their own teas. The cultivation of tea needs typical re-quirement like weather, soil and the way to cul-tivate tea. Overseas Chinese are hardly to have fresh Chinese teas as when they were in China.

Salutary: Tea is a healthy drinking, there is a saying in China that :”Tea is the medicine for thousands of diseases.” Drinking tea is what Chinese treat as a way to keep body healthy.

Cultural: There is a long history in China about tea and tea ceremony. It is a contribution by southern China for food culture, it is also a con-tribution to the food culture around the world by China. Learning about tea history and tea culture is an important part in learning Chinese culture.

Spiritual: Tea ceremony itself is a way to do spiritual practice because it needs people to be calmed, relaxed, and enjoyed when doing tea ceremony. It is also a good way to make friends who share the same habits and can communi-cate about their understandings and collections of tea.

Valuable: Tea collection is part of cultural collections in China, people who are tea lover always have different collections of teas. Such collections not only have cultural meanings but also valuable. For some of the rare tea collec-tions, their values are equal to some precious collections.

Design Qualities

Intuitive

Poetry & Painting

Cup

This intuitive cup can change its ap-

pearence by reacting with different kinds of

teas. The poetry and the traditional Chi-

nese painting on the surface will change

to match the tea type. Four examples are on

the next page, they are yellow tea, green

tea, flower tea and black tea respectively.

Interactive

Teapoy

This Interactive teapoy is a digital interac-tive table that instruct people to do Chinese tea ceremony. People can learn and practice how to do Chinese tea ceremony with the interactive instruction shown on the teapoy. The teapoy will have animation instruction on the surface under the item which should be operated on. Differ-ent animation stands for different action, people can read the legend on the teapoy and follow the anima-tion, then they will learn the steps to do tea ceremony.

Tea Recommendation

Tree

This Interactive tree can provide recom-mendation accord-ing to the whether, solar term, etc. Peo-pl can store their different kinds of teas on the tree, and when they want to get some, they can get a recommenda-tion. For example, when they rotate the tea tree, the system starts to cal-culate the best tea to drink according to the specific solar term and whether. The recommanda-tion tea will stop in front of the people and the branch will be lighted.