Introduced into Europe only three centuries ago, tea is starting to earn-full recognition for its countless virtues, which nevertheless remain little known to the general public. Thanks in part to progress in medicine, today's tendency is towards tea. Green tea, of course, but also black, red, smoked and perfumed teas. Every day tea gives up a little more of its secrets. But tea is a whole multifacetted universe. To know it better and to love it, a certain amount of time must be given up in order to experiment with its many forms. In a word, simply to practice tea. This is the whole aim of the author : to accompany the reader by illustration and text on the discovery of these stages and to place in the hands of the enthusiast the keys to what is a true « Art de vivre ». Which the first tea inventors did not hesitate to raise to the rank « pathway » towards wisdom, in other words the path towards equillibrium and harmony.