What is cooking tea around the stove?

Cooking tea around the stove means that three or two people use tea sets to cook tea around the stove.

In late autumn and early winter, the temperature begins to drop gradually. People will bring their own tea sets, or go to outdoor teahouses or new Chinese teahouses to light fires, make tea, bake oranges and eat melon seeds. This new phenomenon is called cooking tea around the stove.

The emerging tea cooking around the stove is actually nothing new. Cooking tea is a traditional tea drinking culture in China. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, people in China cooked and drank tea. Tea leaves are ground into powder and made into tea balls. When drinking, the tea leaves are mashed and boiled with ginger, orange peel, mint and other seasonings. The boiled tea has a strong taste and is deeply loved by people.