Field notes & essays

Stories from the tea room, mountain, and road

Tea journeys, village lives, pottery, animals, and the people and ordinary days that have shaped Changshou.

Journal · 24 minute read

A numbered diary of encounters, dreams, work, friendships and tea journeys from Changshou’s early years in Shaxi.

Journal · 19 minute read

The numbered diary continues through meditation, tea mountains, pottery, animals, village life, illness, grief and friendship.

Tea & philosophy · 13 minute read

An essay on the beginnings of the tea room, learning Yunnan tea in the mountains, and the way tea became part of a larger search for how to live.

Essay · 7 minute read

On direct perception, impermanence, art, and why a walk without a phone can return the real world to us.

Shaxi life · 12 minute read

Five years after he rebuilt Changshou, carpenter Master Yang raises his own house with the help of his village.

Life at Changshou · 25 minute read

The story of Xingxing, one of three kittens found by the roadside: her life with Changshou, her illness, and the family’s farewell.

Tea & pottery · 14 minute read

Notes from Jingdezhen and Yixing on shape, glaze, clay, firing, and the practical work of matching a vessel to a tea.

Our story · 15 minute read

The earliest account of Changshou: a dark twelve-square-metre shop, an inward-looking dream, and the patient work that made it a tea room.

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Visit: Changshou Tea House, No. 49 Sideng Street, Shaxi Old Town, Jianchuan County, Dali, Yunnan, China
云南省大理州剑川县沙溪古镇寺登街49号长守茶室
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