Stove-boiled Tea

On cold winter days, stove-boiled tea as a newly emerging activity integrating innovation and tradition has become one of the latest trending lifestyles among young Chinese.

The trend originated in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, where it has been part of the local tea culture passed by ethnic minority groups for generations. Since China’s traditional tea-making was added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list, new Chinese lifestyles combining traditional culture and modern life, represented by stove-boiled tea, have become increasingly trendy especially among young people.

The living art represented by stove-boiled tea fosters a great visual, cultural, and taste experience. It provides a comfortable and warm social atmosphere, reflecting people’s yearning for peaceful living.

Drawing people closer into a warm atmosphere, stove-boiled tea has become a new social trend among young Chinese people.

(Photo by Chen Jian/china Pictorial)

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As of December 14, more than about stoveboiled 8,400 related tea had been posted and more than products such as tea-making equipment, food and ingredients were up for sale on Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, China’s lifestylefocused social media platform. On Douyin, the search term has been 2.54 billion times, used the topic “showing off my stoveboiled 290 million times, tea” was viewed and the topic “boiling tea by the stove and roasting sweet potatoes” had more than 140 million views. 90 related topics More than have 10,000 views. gained traction, with most exceeding