Top 5 articles and videos in English in 2024

 

I wish you all wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year festivals! Did you give lots of good and healthy tea to your friends and family? Have you brewed delicious Oolong leaves between meals or during the meals? 

The year is coming to a close and it's time to look back to what we did best. (I won't bother you with what I did worst!!) So, here are the 5 most viewed articles I wrote on this blog in 2024:

1. The meaning of wine in the Odyssey (Homer)

The study of beverages in literature has given me a new, interesting perspective.

2. Puerh comparison: Purple Da Yi from 2003 vs '7542' Menghai from 1999.

How does puerh from the most famous CNNP era factory compare before and after privatization?

3. Dragon and waves Chaxi at the beach

Tea at the beach, 2 dreams in 1!

4. The concept of tea ceremony

Thoughts about the tea ceremony based on René Girard's book where he links violence and the sacred.

5. Yue Stoneware or porcelain bowl?

Did the French translator of Lu Yu's Classic of tea make a mistake?

Here are the top 5 video classes from 2024:

1. The characteristics of Yixing teapots made for the Japanese market.

 

 2. Tie Guan Yin and Roasting -Class #3

 

 3. Lu Yu's Classic of tea, Part 2

 

 4.  Yixing teapots for high mountain Oolong

5. Yixing teapot class #1

From this top 5, it seems obvious that there's a great thirst for Yixing teapot classes. I'll keep that in mind for 2025!

As a bonus, this is currently my most viewed video on my channel. It's still making more views than most of my new weekly tea classes:

Chaxi lesson: Chaozhou Gongfu Cha (April 2020)