Reply To: Why is the gaiwan named gaiwan and not other better names?

In Fujian they call it chabei. The term cha zhong can be Mandarin too, actually. I agree that it is a more accurate term. Gaiwan just seems so alien to us southerners anyway. I suspect it came from non-gongfu tea culture, not us in Fujian or Guangdong or Taiwan or Hong Kong.