Tea Under the Moon

Tea Under the Moon is a cultural gift for the tea drinker in your life, or for your own shelf. The Mid-Autumn Festival is, at heart, a night of sitting down together with something warm in hand and looking up. This box sets that table.

Inside:

The Poets of the Orchid Pavilion mug. Fine porcelain in classic blue and white, carrying the opening of the Orchid Pavilion Preface, the most celebrated piece of calligraphy in Chinese history. Wang Xizhi wrote it seventeen hundred years ago, after an afternoon of poetry and wine with friends by a mountain stream. Scholars have copied his flowing strokes ever since. Your morning tea comes with a masterpiece. 400 ml.

The Seasonal Blossoms coasters. Four coasters, four seasons, four dancers: spring forsythia, summer peonies, autumn osmanthus, winter plum blossoms, each with its season written in Chinese and English. Set one out for each guest, and every cup lands on a different time of year.

The Moon Letter, in its copper envelope. A one-page letter that tells the legend of the Moon Festival; a Moon Goddess postcard, blank on the back, to keep or send on; and a character practice sheet, so you can learn to write 中秋快樂, Happy Mid-Autumn, stroke by stroke.

As a gift, it arrives wrapped in gold paper and tied with ribbon, ready to hand over: the letter tells the story, the mug and coasters carry it into everyday life. Ship it directly to their address, add a message at checkout, and we will write it on the postcard by hand.

For yourself, it is the festival made daily: tea in the mug, cup on a season, and on the night of the fullest moon this autumn, carry it outside and look up.

Poets of the Orchid Pavilion porcelain mug, 400 ml
Seasonal Blossoms coasters, set of 4
Moon Festival story letter, postcard, and 中秋快樂 practice sheet in a copper envelope
Gift-wrapped in gold paper with ribbon