way of tea, tea tao/dao, chadao, confusing for a westerner to understand and easterners to agree on I think is a problem linking chinese tea ceremony/arts/brewing/culture to tao/dao because in most english speakers understand of tao/dao is one the spelling differences and two the fact that it is used to represet tao/dao(ism), which is not a good representation of tea studies and higher more devotion to tea to even living with tea, and being part of one's life. Some people today still say the japanese tea ceremony is tea dao/tao or chado and sado, in japan they concider chinese tea an art not a tao/dao, which also is strange becaus tao/dao we are talking about came from china "Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching", so even easterners dont have it down clear, i think we all know what art and culture is in the west and east, but "tea tao/dao" is still debated of what it is. Lore in the sense of -" knowledge gained through study or experience, traditional knowledge or belief, a particular body of knowledge or tradition"
Dao/Tao in the sense of not Daoism or Taoism but the Chinese word only and its meaning with learning an Art with devotion and living the Art and assimilating it into one's life.
Lore may refer to a number of different definitions, subjects, but strictly speaking: something that is learned, knowledge gained through study or experience, traditional knowledge or belief, a particular body of knowledge or tradition Archaic: something that is taught: lesson Middle English, from Old English l?r; akin to Old High German l?ra doctrine, Old English leornian to learn Date: before 12th century ORIGIN Old English, instruction; related to LEARN. Not to be confused with folklore, legend, or myth. Lore may refer to different definitions when combined with other words. Yes as with most words there are some other accepted meanings for lore: the stories and traditions of a particular group of people folk lore; also weather lore, Celtic lore, and folklore.