Chinese think that tea drinking is a very sophisticated pastime. In Chinese classical novels, if someone drinks tea out of a big cup to quench his thirst, the action is called “drink”, like a cow drinking water. Scholars would use fine cups to drink tea and the word to use is “savor”. Tea drinking starts with the environment. In the past, tea drinking should take place in a setting where “spring water runs on marbles” or “in a monastery in misty spring” or “in the woods during sunset.” Nowadays, in order to recreate such an ambience, tea houses are always decorated with traditional paintings, calligraphy and furniture, with a girl in traditional costume playing the gu zheng, a traditional Chinese musical instrument. About the tea sets, in the old days, people used iron kettles to boil water. Tea was placed in a paper bag. Porcelain cups were used for drinking. The water came from melted snow which is collected from plum blossoms trees the previous winter and stored underground in a jar. Today people use different tea sets but the most popular ones are the pots made in Yixing. No one collects snow any more because of the pollution so people use bottled water instead. Pu’er tea contains a kind of fungus which is believed to be healthy. The fungus will ferment on its own after the tea is processed. This is why expensive Pu’er tea is always quite old.