The complete tea set consist of "tow" a base to contain the "used" water as well used tea leaves. "Hu" the tea pot. There are the "er ren hu", "si re hu" and pa ren hu" which mean the tea pot for 2 or 4 or 8 respectively which are normally used. "Ping pei" which mean the tasting cup which is broader , "wen pei" the smelling cup. "Kong tow pei" this is a big cup to filter the finer tea residue, these may or may not be use by tea drinker. "Char Kuan" an air tight tin container to contain the tea leaves to prevent the smell of the tea leaves to goes off. You can get beautiful design container from tea shop for a small price. Do you know that if you leave the tea leaves next to a pungent smell item the tea leaves will absorb that smell. Then it will lose it smell. That is why some people put tea leaves on shoes shelf to get rid of the smell. "Shui Hu" the water pot these goes together with the weed burning spirit burner. The water temperature has to be maintained at about 90 degree for best temperature to "make" tea. 

             There are other accessories also available e.g. towel to dry , tweezers to clear tea leaves, scoop to scoop the right amount of tea and a funnel to ensure tea leaves not wasted. And finally to the tea leaves there are different of leaves available. These is too big a topic to talk and discuss about, however I may introduced to you some of it.
 

Tea Leaves	"Cha"  The Chinese Character of Tea	Tea Pot "Cha Hu"
Tea in tin	Yixing Tea Set	Tea Cup Color of the tea

            The chinese tea leaves comes mainly from China and Taiwan. A "good tea leave may cost few hundred dollars/100 gm to a few ten of dollars/100 gm. The chinese tea may fall into these few categories mainly

Green tea: Green tea is the variety which keeps the original colour of the tea leaves without fermentation during  processing. This category consists mainly of Longjing tea.

Black tea: Black tea, known as "red tea" (hong cha) in China, is the category which is fermented before baking; it is a later variety developed on the basis of the green tea. The best brands of black tea are Qihong 

Wulong tea: This represents a variety half way between the green and the black teas, being made after partial fermentation. It is a specialty from the provinces on China's southeast coast: Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.

Compressed tea: This is the kind of tea which is compressed and hardened into a certain shape. It is good for transport and storage and is mainly supplied to the ethnic minorities living in the border areas of the country. As compressed tea is black in colour in its commercial form, so it is also known in China as "black tea". Most of the compressed tea is in the form of bricks; it is, therefore, generally called "brick tea", though it is sometimes also in the form of cakes and bowls. 

Scented tea: This kind of tea is made by mixing fragrant flowers in the tea leaves in the course of processing. The flowers commonly used for this purpose are jasmine and magnolia among others. Jasmine tea is a well-known favourite with the northerners of China and with a growing number of foreigners.

           If you are still keen just email to me or perhaps you like to go to the tea house to find out more. There are many shop around perhaps I can introduced some in Singapore  (e.g. Tea House in Sago Lane and Tea Chapter in South Bridge Road) or there are even book available for Chinese tea if you like to know more