liu xian guan

LIUXIANGUAN TEAHOUSE was entitled ¡°the best urban refuge¡±: Peace and quiet are virtues not often ascribed to Beijing. It is a city referred to by locals as "renao"a word for "lively" that melds the characters for "hot" and "noisy".

Hence the allure of LIUXIANGUAN,a tea shop opposite the serene ,600-year-old Confucius temple, where for century the country`s best and brightest came to take exams for the civil service .Inside ,40 excellent varieties of tea are served with a little fanfare as you like .Outside the window ,the temple `deep red walls set off its sloping yellow roofs and gnarled cedars.And you sit and gaze , nursing the same teapot for hours, no one asks you to leave .Instead, a dish of melon seeds or candied kumquats appears on the table so silently that you will barely notice. The shop`s name ,incidentally, is a nod to the sage honored across the street .LIUXIAN means ¡°lingering virtue¡±.In a city of irrepressible car horns and street hawkers armed with megaphones,linger is exactly what you `ll what to do . FROM TIME MAGAZINE ,JULY 4,2005 by SUSAN JAKES

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