A Tea Culture Seminar entitled “From Tea to Business Philosophy” (由茶道到商道), which organized by EngD Society, MEEM Dept. of The City University of Hong Kong on 16 April 2011. Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) was one of supporting organizations.
In the beginning, Mr. Walter Fung (Vice-chairman, EngD Society) introduced speakers of the seminar.
The first speaker was Dr. Hongy Sun (Associate Professor, MEEM of CityU) and this presentation was “Tea Culture and Innovation”.
Dr. Sun discussed the relationship between Chinese Culture and Creativity. Usually, it was from one to many (Multifunction). He introduced the relationship as follows:
Culture to Innovation (Technology and Management) to Competitive Power and Economic improvement included Resource and Efficiency.
It may be the culture of Tea induced Tea Cup and Leave Innovation.
The second speaker was Prof. Cheng, Pei-kai (Director of Chinese Civilisation Centre, CityU) and his topic named “Chinese Tea Culture and Social Economics”.
Firstly, Prof. Cheng introduced the history of Tea. Mr. Luk (陸羽) was called “God of Tea” in China because he was the first people study the tea systematically and he wrote the first book of tea called “茶經” in Tang Dynasty (唐朝).
Prof. Cheng introduced three type of tea drinking.
The third speaker was Dr. HY Cheung (Associate Professor, BCH Dept. of CityU) and his topic entitled “The benefit of Chinese Tea on Health”.
The following table showed the composition of Chinese Tea.
Then he explained the mechanism how Chinese Tea against Cancer in six dimensions.
l Cell proliferation & differentiation
l Cell Cycle Arrest
l Antioxidant
l Enzyme induction & inhibition
l Modulate Gene Expression
l Apoptosis
The Oolong tea (Polyphenol extract) was found to inhibit the cancer cell growth (anti-cancer).
Dr. Cheung introduced some publication from his research team.
The last speaker was Ms. Katherine Yu (Operation Manager / Tea Master, Heritage Tea House) and she shared her experience in studying tea in past 16 years.
The she demonstrated the process of tea preparation.
After that Mr. Rocky Lam (Chairman, EngD Society) was chaired the discussion forum. Each speakers were discussed the relationship among tea, research and business.
Ms. Katherine Yu identified four dimension of tea culture as follows:
和 (Harmonious) - 中和之道.
靜 (Quiet) – 冷靜下來
怡 (Please) – 欣賞別人的貢獻
真 (True) – 質量好, 沒有虛假.
At the end, we had a tea outside the lecture theater.
Dr. Cheung is my teacher since 1989. We took a photo for memory.
Reference:
Chinese Civilisation Centre, CityU - http://www.cciv.cityu.edu.hk/cciv.php
Heritage Tea House – http://www.hkhth.com/tc/teaIntro/index.html
Engineering Doctorate (Engineering Management), MEEM Dept, CityUHK - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/me/prg-engd.htm
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