Japan Shincha - Shimoyama first flush -- shared experience

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great sentence! I will hang it on my wall

For hanging on the wall, surely it'd look better in calligraphy! ;-)

With my rather rudimentary Putonghua (un)skills -- though given the tea that provoked the comment, Japanese is probably more appropriate, but I know even less Japanese than I do Chinese --, I came up with:

一輩子太寶貴飲低劣茶

In case the UTF-8 doesn't come out, that should be yi1 bei4 zi3 tai4 bao3 gui4 yin3 di1 lie4 cha2; I was aiming for "one lifetime [is] too precious [to] drink inferior tea". How bad is my grammar/word choice, and how far off was I from how someone who knows Chinese might actually phrase the sentiment? :-)

N.

I can read the UTF-8 characters loud and clear. There is no such thing as a good tea or bad tea only idiosyncratic personality quirks. If the only tea sold on the planet tomorrow was Liptons I could live with it but choice is good. Hey Martha when you start doing time learn how to make a pot of tea or bandanas with the suggested phrase.

Jim

Did you have some point that wasn't completely obvious?

N.

In broken Japanese (proverbs don't need grammar, do they ?) :

短い人生下品茶不要。

Short walls, short sayings. This one won't fit here. At the entrance, I've just written 目茶苦茶(mecha kucha) as a warning. Whatever you imagine that means, that's exactly that. My grand-mother would say that here "A cow wouldn't find her little one.". But that's far beyond.

Seriously, when I have read Flush had drunk "shincha" this week, I have though 芽茶苦茶 (mecha kucha ). This one means "tea in germ, bitter tea". In Japan, the shincha (= "new tea") season is supposed to start around the end of April. So the product is not available now. Even frozen, it'd be a bit old as shincha. It still can be enjoyed as sencha. I though someone else was going to tell it.

I'll come to tell you when they start selling the new tea in Osaka. Yesterday, it was snowing a little.

Kuri