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I was re-reading this article while drinking out of a gaiwan:
I tend to use mine in one hand, specifically with the ring finger and thumb on the saucer, index on the lid ring, middle bracing the lid and little finger free.I take it this would be bad etiquette were I to visit China? (Like the chopsticks stuck in a bowl thing)M. -
It seems to me that you have actually seen some people doing that and has influenced you. It’s an old fashion “make-do” style used by certain people who wanted to make a statement that they were not lower class people (who usually wouldn’t care for lifting the saucer altogether), nor were they gently (who would seem to others as being too feminine or too feeble). However, it was seen by the educated as being, um, red-neck.
Today in China, it is not a popular way of handling the tool. I have seen more people leaving the lid and the saucer on the table than that :-To me, it is not a safe way. -
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Not so many people in China know the proper way anyway. People use the gaiwan mostly for making tea quickly and casually, not properly. Most drink from glass or mugs and cups. If hey drink from gaiwan, they use it strangely, or artificially. Leo’s teaching of the proper way is a good break away from China’s version of overly flowery gestures, but maintaining the spirit and gentlemanly way of the tradition.
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