Picture of 彭镇老茶馆
Caption: 老茶馆 The Teahouse
Caption: Teahouses play an important role in everyone's daily life in Sichuan province. They are scattered almost everywhere in Chengdu, but as the city expands many traditional teahouses have been gone.
In November 2014, I visited an old teahouse in a small town near Chengdu.
彭镇老茶馆
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Caption: 茶者，南方之嘉木也。
— 陆羽 《茶经》
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Caption: Political slogans on the wall were painted during the Cultural Revolution.
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Caption: This old teahouse opens at 4:00 in the morning and most of the customers are over 60 years old.
Drinking a cup of cheap tea and smoking some bad tobaccos, the elderly spend yet another day at the teahouse.
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Caption: 坐酌泠泠水，
看煎瑟瑟尘。
无由持一碗，
寄与爱茶人。
— 白居易 《山泉煎茶有怀》
