Posting to friend with love tea.

The Vtuber of the Day is Zhuni Excel from NexStage Project's first generation, CodeX! He is an Academic! He streams on YouTube in English!

c0mm for @/ZhuniExcel_NS

Might be one of my cleanest work, but god I wonder if I’ll ever get used to drawing so much detail

"The rhyme rivals the beauty, the beauty is beautiful" Lu Xun once said that the Chinese are moderate. To open the windows, remove the roof first. This can also be seen from the pot pouring. Feudal tradition is really strange. On the one hand, the suppression of sex makes it difficult to reveal emotions and desires in society, but on the other hand, sex has had a profound impact on historical literary jokes, such as "Ruyijun Zhuan", "Rou Futon", and even "Jin Ping Mei" " and other works have been immortalized for generations. Xi Shi is round and plump, lovable and sweet, and it's hard to bear to be kissed. The beauties flirt with each other, smile on their faces, and always want to spend a lot of money. Wen Dan looks like a lady, but she also possesses the grace of a Xi Shi beauty. It's so cold in the boudoir, how can a girl not be pregnant?

Above, Wendan, 160cc, Zhuni Wa Weng Comments

Fursuit refsheet for Sel Zhuni 🐾

FAQ for Yixing Teapots Part 1

"What is a "Yixing Teapot"?" It's a teapot made out of Yixing [Ih-sing] ore, which is an ore mined in the same named City in the prefecture of Southern Jiangsu. It has a unique composition which makes it unable to be wheel-thrown as other clays and requires Slab Building technique to make pottery out of. The clay itself also has to be stored and fermented for a couple years in order to gain plasticity. Since 2004 but also before, Yixing Ore/Clay has become more limited as most of the mines have been overmined and have been as of 2004 been closed by the Government, which skyrocketed the price of Yixing wares/clay/ore.

"I've heard you can only use one type of tea in an Yixing Teapot, so do I have to buy multiple?" No, that is a myth that might've been born out of mistranslation, misunderstanding or simply a story that some sellers might push to sell more teapots. you can essentially brew all tea types in your yixing teapot, it will only very faintly transfer notes from a previous session to the next (i.e. from fermented puerh tea to a very light green tea). However if you brew heavily roasted tea in your teapot, the roast can build a patina inside which can mute certain things in a tea in the future, but that can be cleaned and prevented. As long as you clean your teapot after each session with some clean water (and preferrably hot water to sterilize it further), hardly anything should transfer from one session to another.

"Where do i buy a good Yixing Teapot?" For someone new to teawares and especially Yixing, I recommend sticking to vendors that are suggested and purchased from, from users in the tea community. I would avoid buying from other sources because odds are it is not real yixing and/or it is quite dodgy and you have no idea what's in the clay or how it will affect your tea. Do not buy an Yixing teapot from Aliexpress for example. Refer to a previously made suggestion list of mine

If Yixing teapots are too much for your budget, I recommend looking into Jianshui (for bigger pots, 90-350ml), Nixing (70-400ml) or Chaozhou (40-160ml) Teapots.

I suggest to determine what size of vessel you need for how you usually brew (most likely 80-140ml), then determine the clay for the tea you brew, most likely it will be Zini or Zhuni/Hongni. Look around and see what catches your eye as the teapot u buy should appeal to you as you will use it for the years to come after all.

"How do I take care of my Yixing teapot so it will last me a long time?" First of, DO NOT BOIL IT, boiling it is not necessary at all (unless you've got a fake one from aliexpress that has god knows what inside). After receiving your Yixing Teapot you should rinse it under luke warm tap water and scrub the inside with your fingers in case there is some quartz powder (used in firing so the lid doesn't stick to the body) or other dirt. Then I suggest to gradually pre-heat it with a temperature controlled Kettle, pour in water in 10°c steps one after another until you've gotten to 100°, then it's ready to go! other people may suggest leaving it in a water bath for a day or overnight. Note that my method is very careful and at most, just fill with hot tap water, then boiling. For general usage afterwards for each new session, Preheat your pots! immediately pouring in boiling water puts thermal stress upon the dry clay and you risk getting hairlines that can develop into cracks and splits and you do not want that. there are various methods of preheating you can find out and develop your own, however as i'm writing this I will once again give my method: Pour in 50% vol. with 50°c Water, then add 70°c water up to 100% vol., pour back into the kettle back to 50% vol. and add 90°c water, then pour out! With modern pieces, zini, duanni and lvni teapot, it's good to go! for a vintage or antique or zhuni teapot i'd recommend giving it another step of pouring out back to 50% vol. then adding 100° water to 100%. After a session, obviously throw away the spent leaves and rinse with water, you can also rinse with hot tapwater, then with boiling to sterilize the inside (and make it dry faster).

"Zini, Zhuni, Hongi, Lvni, Duanni? what are these funny words magic woman?" These refer to the subcategory of Yixing clay the teapot is made out of, because depending on what layer the ore was mined, it has different properties and compounds, but what this means for you as a consumer is that generally speaking they refer to the color and porosity/affecting capabilities of the clay. They are named after the color of the clay or ore itself: Zini= Purple Clay, Zhuni=Vermillion Clay, Hongni=Red Clay, Lvni=Green Clay, Duanni=combined clay of a mix of zini and lvni or hongni and lvni. The affecting capabilities generally go parallel with the porosity of the clay and that is dictated per clay and how it is fired/quality of the clay, but a rule of thumb of porosity is this: Least affecting/porous: Zhuni > Hongni > Zini > Duanni > Lvni :Most affecting/porous. Here's a video of two 80s Mo Lvni teapot, one being higher fired (less porous) and the other being lower fired, you notice it in the sound and look.

"Muting? Enhancing? is that what they mean when they say Yixing Teapots make tea taste better?" Yes! but that's only half of what Yixing Teapots do. Since the clay is unglazed and porous it can do various things to tea, with enhancing/muting it is meant that it can reduce the taste of certain notes and increase other things in the tea, ultimately making it taste better. most notably undesirable notes such as bitterness or astringency are often reduced. However, Yixing Teapots act, to make a good analogy, like an equalizer acts to music, it can reduce but also give certain things, while it may not (or should not) give additional notes to a tea, it can make it so certain notes stick out, but it can also give or take things such as the body, thickness, aroma and aftertaste to the tea! This is not as easily understood or understandable and each teapot is unique in its "equalizer setting" but we can make some rule of thumbs that, for example, usually Zhuni is less neutral than Porcelain and gives more body to the tea than porcelain, or that Zini has a bigger effect and takes away more bitterness than zhuni does.

"So can a Yixing Teapot make tea taste phenomenal?" Yes, but the bottle cap is the tea itself, it is the base material you, as the composer of the brew, use to make the tea liquor. While Yixing teapots certainly can refine and make tea taste better you should also keep in mind that there are other factors that are just as important if not more important! Variables are the water you use (softer vs harder), the Temperature at which you brew, the ratio of tea leaves to water (10g to 100ml is stronger and more complex than 2g to 100ml) and the length at which you steep (longer=stronger and more extraction). In general I recommend tweaking the water you use with a Water Filter(softer water, better for most teas) and/or a Tetsubin (harsher water, better for Puerh) to control the extraction, as well as the ratio of leaf to water, the Temperature and the length of the steep first, if one mainly wants to get an Yixing teapot for the effect in the cup.

"So I've heard about other clay teapots like Nixing, Jianshui and Chaozhou, how do they differ from Yixing?" Well, simply said, it's clay from a different place in China altogether! While Nixing (similarly sounding to Yixing but far different from it!) and Jianshui Teapots are a fairly recent cultivation in their respective pottery culture, Chaozhou is known, besides Yixing, as another place that is known for its teapot culture with Chaozhou pots mainly being used for the Chaozhou Gong Fu brewing practice.

"Why are Yixing teapots so small? are they toys made for kids?" Good question! They are small since they are meant to be used with whole leaf high quality loose leaf, no tea bags or broken tealeaves (like assam blends and such). This allows the tea to swell up and the extraction of the tea compounds into the liquor has more longevity, i.e. you can make multiple steeps, so-called infusions. Due to the small size, it allows you to make bite-sized volumes of strong, complex tea liquor akin to espresso (which is used as a comparison often for Chaozhou Gongfu brewing). In China though, popular teapot sizes are a lot bigger than those we solo practitioners acquire and seek, as they usually brew not only for them but their whole family. There are many ways to make tea however and you can brew as you see fit, no need to limit yourself : ) (just don't put your teapot into the microwave, that would be pretty dangerous I reckon).

"A Laminar pour means its amazing quality and a bad pour means it's a bad quality teapot" Actually, quite the contrary. The Flow of the teapot is dictated by it's shape, size and how the spout is formed, but it is not much an indicator of the overall quality of the teapot itself. Old teapots usually have bad pours, but that doesn't mean they are of bad quality as they often have a lot better and more unadulterated clay quality compared to modern teapots (modern teapots often have barium¹ added to combat efforescence of the clay in firing, but that doesn't mean much to the performance). Similarly the Lidfit also does not mean a teapot is of better quality, Older pots, being lower fired than what we currently have access to (electric kiln, far better control, higher temps, etc.), usually had not that well fitting lids, especially Yixing Teapots from the 70's+ era of Factory 1. Arguably it is easier to machine/mold make/engineer a perfect pouring spout and a perfect lidfit with lower quality teapots than it is with half handmade or handmade yixing teapots.

¹: Barium in clay doesn't translate to any change in the cup and even if it were, it is so miniscule that it's negligible. It will probably also not leach to the amount that its concerning, the tea you drink will probably affect your health more than the Barium in a teapot. In fact Lvni naturally comes with about 1500 ppm Barium where as the highest dosage I've heard of was in a white label F1 (1988-1992) Hongni, over 1% Barium, 12,000 ppm. Barium is added to skip the step of manually having to massage the clay, this is to save time and energy and, according to an yixing artist, there is seemingly no difference in result between the handmassaged and barium added pots.

Go to Part 2 here

my animals’ names and what i actually call them, a post by me

Molly (lab mix): moose, moose-moose, mooser, moosie, moosh-moosh, mooshie, moo-moo-moose, mooshie moose, mootie, baby dog, baby moose, little moose moose

Tucker (brittany spaniel): tuck tuck, tucker tuck, little bit, baby boy, menace, ruff tuff, baby bat, bitty, tuck attack, tucker time, buddy, baby

Dolly (rabbit): dolly dolls, doll-doll, dolly mama, mama rabbit, dolly dolly, mamas

June (rabbit): junie, junie b, june-june, junie june, zhu-zhune, zhunie, juntie, juntie b, mama junie, mama rabbit, mamas

Earl (rabbit): earl-bearl, earls, bunny boy, eros, earlie

Pongo (goat): pongos, pongster, pongo-pong, pongs, baby boy, baby pongo, bubbas

La biographie créative de Seydou a commencé en 2005 après l'apparition d'une fille dans la vidéo du chanteur Raphaël

Et dès l'année suivante, elle fait ses débuts dans la comédie pour adolescents Girls from Above : French Kiss, populaire en France et en Amérique.

 Chaque année Léa Seydoux apparaît sur les écrans dans de nouveaux clichés.  En 2007, elle incarne Catherine dans le film "Secret Lover" et dans le film policier "French Street, 13", mais le premier succès tangible revient à la jeune actrice lorsqu'elle interprète le rôle de Zhuni dans "Le Beau Figuier".  Elle y campe une jeune écolière devenue l'objet du désir d'une jeune enseignante.

 Léa a créé une image nouvelle et distinctive dans le cinéma français, recevant pour cela le prix Chopard, ainsi qu'une nomination au César national du film.  On parlait de Seydou comme de l'avenir du cinéma français.

 Bientôt, le répertoire du jeune artiste a été reconstitué avec des œuvres dans le film "Girls and Angels", dans lequel Sami Naseri, le célèbre acteur principal du blockbuster "Taxi", est également apparu.  La prochaine image dans laquelle Lea a joué est le drame français sur l'amour "Illusions".

En 2009, l'actrice a joué le rôle de Marie dans le drame Lourdes.  Le film a été projeté à la Mostra de Venise et a reçu un prix honorifique.  Elle parvient à trouver son propre style d'acteur.  Les critiques ont noté l'individualité et la dissemblance de Seydou avec l'une des actrices déjà célèbres.  Lea elle-même a été surprise de sa popularité auprès des réalisateurs, attirés dès le début par sa beauté naturelle, sans maquillage et sans style.

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November 8, 2017

Last gold mounted teapot at the shop. Excellent for making lighter teas. #yixing #yixingpot #yixingclay #teapot #yixingteapot #zisha #zhuni #zhuniteapot #chineseteapot #chinesetea #chineseteaculture #chineseteashop #teavancouver #teatime (at The Chinese Tea Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/B41EGxCgUvR/?igshid=13d7kk1imdrao

Last post of the triple: I basically said almost everything about this tea, which I wanted to! One thing I can add is that it seemed to me that this tea lasts much longer than some of the other Rou Gui I had. I feel that for that kinda of tea, Yancha isn’t as long lasting as other Oolongs! . Don’t forget the giveaway on YouTube, just comment on the latest video! 😁 Source: @tea.log . . ——————— 2018 Ma Tou Yan Rou Gui via @wooteastudio ——————— Medium roast. ——————— 7g in 110ml DaHongPao Zhuni Yixing Pot——————— . .#coffeeandteabreak #coffeeandtea #teaheads #gaiwan #beautiful #love #cultivar #rougui #yancha #wuyi #wuyishan #fujian #rocktea #oolong #wulong #china #yixing #zhuni #dahongpao #teapot #tetsubin #tea #cha #gongfucha #teasession #teaceremony #teaaddict #instatea #teaphotography #tealog (at Europe) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Udx3PJ3Z7/?igshid=x7xyzub8t3iy

Niang after she gets out of prison.  

Sel Zhuni performs for the crowd!

Bath time 🛁 for the #zhuni #yixing #teapot https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvu2xczlwKu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l7he843cnppg

This Zhu Ni Shiu Ping is from the early nineties. It has been brewing High Mountain Oolongs for me a beautifully since it found me. The high fired clay has a very nice ping when the lid gently strikes the pot. The teapot's shiny red color deepens when hot water is poured into and over it while brewing. The relatively small size, about 140ml is good for one or two people. #smacha #deicious #zhuni #yixingclay #yixing #highmountainoolong #ping #highfired #teamakesahappyday #teamaster #shuiping #Taiwan #tea #cha #te #beautiful #90's #pnw #seattle #curvysides