In Chinese there are a couple of terms for the color brown just as in English hickory and walnut are used to describe brown. One commonly used term before kāfeī or coffee was introduced was “tea” color. Although it is generally used to identify a range of brown, the “tea” color spills across a spectrum of muted, dark green such as olive to describing hair color as chestnut. In the image below both the tea leaves and the tea pot represent an interpretation of the “tea” color. In our current color coded world, these colors may be distinguished by more vocabulary than our recent past before the color TV was introduced. Learn more about the colors of tea when you contact Yvonne to arrange for a Chinese tea demonstration.
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