howdy y'all my name is Johan and we're here at guan yin teahouse for another episode of
gong fruity cha where we teach out how to make some tea so today we're gonna talk about gan
Pao which means dry pouring that sounds like an oxymoron because if it's dry how can you
pour stuff because you pour liquids but what we really mean is pouring tea dry meaning pouring
tea without spilling water all over the place like you've probably seen me do on other episodes that
is a little bit of a more more traditional style that wet style is called shrimp al wet pouring
and that's when you have a chop on which is the dish or tray or plate that drains or cha-cha-cha
tea boat where it's just a little bowl that your teapot sits in either way you can pour
water over the teapot you can pour water over the cups when you're rinsing things you just
dump it out whatever and it's fun and sloppy and a little laid-back but today we're going to explore
gan Pao which comes to us from Taiwan the very very classy Taiwanese the people who brought us
the gong da Bay in the first place which is not a coincidence because the gong da Bay the secondary
vessel or justice cup is absolutely necessary for doing this style of GaN pal and so basically what
we're gonna do is we are going to fill our vessels just enough we are not going to overfill them so
if we were using a teapot for example we would not pour water over the tea public we usually do
we just fill everything just enough to make tea in it and instead of having a chop on we will
use our shui Fung or waste water bowl here and we'll dump our water and our rinse and our use
the weaves into that instead and why do we do this well for one thing you don't have to have a chop
on which is kind of nice when you're not trying to carry around a big chop on but you do have
your tea vessels another is that it's clean its elegant it's classy and I find this works really
well when I'm serving tea for myself and maybe one or two other people if I'm serving tea at a party
and I've got like 25 people drinking tea with me then I definitely a nice big chop on where I can
just rapid-fire rinse things and everything but when I'm taking my time and enjoying it
and I've got my flowers and I got my incense and all my nice stuff and I want to have a nice clean
straightforward tea service I do gun pow and I've been really into it it's all I've been doing so
I'm pretty stoked to be doing it day and showing you how to do it and this is just a really great
way to do tea service if you can't even afford a chop on or just your chilling out you don't want
a whole big production going on so we're gonna go ahead and start the way we always start our
tea service by waking up the vessels so I've got my hot water here I'm gonna go ahead and fill my
guy wan and I'm just gonna be a little bit more mindful when I'm filling my guy 1 because I don't
want water going everywhere because I've got my nice pretty hand embroidered mats here and the
goal when we're doing gun pal we do it we'll do it on a stone or a piece of wood or a mat or a runner
or something but the goal is we don't want to get a drop of water or tea on this mat you can it's
not the end of the world if you do but our goal is that we want everything to stay nice and dry
go so this is nice and hot and now I'm going to go ahead and making that ghosty drain my water into
here my guy wan is hot and I'm going to pour my water into my cups again just enough to fill the
cups a little bit up not spilling a drop isn't that dry and then pouring my excess water out
these guys also going all the way over
and emptying everything now everything is gonna be nice and warm ready two years for
our tea service and something nice about gun pal is that it really necessitates this kind of slow
and methodical movement which we associate with like Tai Chi or even the Japanese tea ceremony
which when you're doing sure power the more old-school sure power and you've got a chop
I mean it's kind of whatever but gone pal you kind of have to slow it all down you have to
move very intentionally no wasted movement because you don't want to spill any tea so
I'm gonna go ahead and today we're going to make these true Jian Bao pian we unwrapped
one for an early episode and now I want to drink it because I do love this T this is a
2016 hey cha from Hunan very ancient shape and makes a nice little nice little tea for some
gunpowder there so I'm just gonna pop this whole Boop pop this whole little coin of tea
in there and my vessels are hot I'm ready to go I'm going to go ahead and give it a little rinse
there we go filling it up right there again no water spilled nice
and clean nice and dry this is the tea service you can bring home to your mama
and some adherents of very classy gun power will say don't shake your vessel don't shake your
vessel mm-hmm you know there's a lot of things people say I don't necessarily care I to do it
the way I like to do it some people say don't cross your center line I've said this don't cross
your center line with you're going da Bay you know this is a right-handed going down Bay and my cups
are all over here so you know kung fu cha cha hee whatever you want to call it it's not about rules
and technicalities it's about having a good time and today we're having a good time doing gone pow
so we've got our rinse again I'm just seasoning the cups with the fragrant first steeping which we
are not going to drink and again using these slow methodical movements and turning your cup kind of
all the way upside down like this prevents it from drips from running down the side just like that
and our third cup
our cups are warm and seasoned all of our tea wares warm the tea is rinsed and now we're
actually going to make the first steeping that we are going to drink that true John
Bao PN has broken up very nicely and I'm going to go ahead and just do a nice little circular
pour with some a little bit of robustness and vigor keep breaking up that tea coin and then
it doesn't take long it's a nice strong tea steeping this guy or in it out doubt it it's
at a cha so I don't want to get every last drop out and there we go and now we're ready
ooh nice color on that now we're ready to actually drink our to Jung bow pn hey cha we have prepared
it using our gan power technique nice clean elegant simple I love this so thank you all for
joining us here on going through teach our for our gonpa sewed go home and try this out see if this
is satisfying for you and compare it with how it feels when you do the big ol floppy sugar palace
style that we've been doing up to this point if you enjoyed this video stay tuned we're going to
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