When drinking, hold the bowl holder with your left hand, and pick up the tea cover with your right hand and pull the tea leaves to one side. This is for drinking green tea. Like the most in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
In addition, when someone is pouring tea, the front of the index finger of the right hand is bent and the middle finger is buckled on the table twice to express gratitude. It is said that there is an allusion to it. Legend has it that when Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he poured tea for Heshen in a teahouse. According to the rules of the palace, this is to kowtow to the emperor, but the emperor does not want people to recognize it. Right in the middle of a dilemma, whether to kowtow or not to kowtow, he suddenly became impatient, and knelt down with two fingers instead of his legs. Both monarchs and ministers understand each other. Of course this is a legend, but there is such a ritual.
