User:Icetea8

my take on wiki
if you would have told me years ago, there was going to be Wikipedia ran by everyone or anyone(even allowing people like me?), and it is editing almost as you read, i would have laughed and said, "i give it a year or two before it folds". well the honeymoon's over, but Wiki is so great that it speaks for itself. and on this little dog-ear page, i too will "try" to contribute what I can. since i use wikipedia for learning myself and i don't give any money donations, the least i can do is keep the other editors busy. wiki is a social-multigroup of all kinds of different people. so remember to be nice, even if the other guys or girls arnt, at least at the end of the day you can say "i have class...".
 * Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger and is a portmanteau from wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia.

they dont know anything and i got deleted
Wikipedia articles are improved through the hard work of regular editors, but also through numerous anonymous contributions made by newcomers. Remember: all of us were new editors at Wikipedia once, and in some ways (such as when editing an article on a topic outside our usual scope) even the most experienced among us are still newcomers. So please do not bite the newcomers. Alo don't take it personal, through all the Assuming good faith and such, we can't keep everything, some things have to be deleted, OK? But that doesn't stop us from trying. It can be fun, hey look you can get real free lessons and maybe learn some things along the way too.

AfD Process
The article will be discussed until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. At the end it will be determined to:
 * delete the article
 * keep the article
 * merge the artcle
 * redirect the article

If no consensus the article is usually kept.
 * Logs of current articles here Articles for deletion

tea terms and translating conventions
Goal: have a vocabulary for tea studies

First if there is already a common English word that is already used, it is better not to translate by creating new English words. If there are significant alternative names for the topic, then usually in the article's first sentence it can be mentioned.

Purpose: translate Chinese tea terms into English
 * use established terms that are understandable
 * use Romanization(Puer) without apostrophes(Pu'er), capitals(PuEr), hyphens(Pu-er), and, spaces(Pu er)
 * avoid abbreviations(P.E.)

Specialized Chinese-English tea terminology

A list of Chinese-English tea terms, check for revisions, any suggestions are appreciated. I have created this list for anyone, non-commercial or commercial, no permission needed, (a link would be appreciatedTea Terms 2010 )


 * 茶學書庫分類索引表
 * Tea Studies Index

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The Three Ts 泡茶三要素

3-Ts = tea, temperature, and time

tea amount 茶量 water temperature 水溫 steeping time 浸泡時間

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wiki
contributions

Agarwood Bamboo stove ‎ Chinese scholar's rocks Chinese tea culture Coffee ceremony Dō (Way) ‎ Donald McKay Floral Arrangement Floristry ‎ Gongfu Tea Ceremony Guanyin Guqin ‎ Hongwu Emperor Incense Route Incense International Tea Day ‎ Iron goddess Iron Goddess Tea Kōdō Kujiejun Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute ‎ Perennial Tea Ceremony Pictorial of Tea Ware Puer tea Pu-erh tea Schools of Chinese Tea Ceremony Teaism Taiwanese Tea Ceremony Tao ‎ Tea Appreciation Day Tea Ceremony Tea Culture Tea Lore Tea Manual Tea processing Tea Studies Index Tea Ten Fu Group Ten Ren Tea Tenfu Tea College Tenfu Tea Museum Tieguanyin ‎ The Classic of Tea Tsai Rong Tsang Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony Zhu Quan ‎ 茶道 茶學書庫分類索引表

facebook

 * How-To delete account

different translation systems
A Chinese romanization system is a method of using the Roman alphabet(ABCD...) to pronounce Chinese characters (or hanzi) used in Chinese languages.

Hanyu Pinyin romanization system for Mandarin Chinese These are the syllables of Mandarin Chinese as written in and alphabetized by the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Also included are Zhuyin Fuhao, Wade-Giles, MPS2, Yale, Tongyong Pinyin, and Gwoyeu Romatzyh.


 * Zhuyin注音
 * Wade-Giles韋式
 * MPS2注音二式
 * Yale雅禮
 * Tongyong Pinyin通用拼音
 * Hanyu Pinyin漢語拼音
 * Gwoyeu Romatzyh國語羅馬字

me

 * My main blog is Tea Arts (since 2005), I post on Wikipedia, facebook, twitter, with the internet username is icetea8.

my goals

 * I have been fortunate to have spent years in Asia and have lived, studied, and worked with the beautiful people. As an American I write in English, and I try to translate or sometimes just explain deficient areas that are within my grasp.
 * Evaluation and standardizing of Romanized words(only in topics and languages I know).
 * To pass on any non-English pertinent knowledge through specialized terminology translation to the English speaking community as tools.
 * Noting different spellings with Romanized foreign words for the sake of future historians to trace origins. (what am I am talking about?: oolong,wulong,wolung,oolong, should I do Puer too?, I think not today.)

my pages (all tea related)

 * Tea Arts, 茶藝The International Wu-Wo Tea Association English site(國際無我茶-英文)
 * Tea Culture 茶文化
 * photos 相片

presently

 * Instructor, Department of Tea Culture, Tenfu Tea College, China
 * Instructor, Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute
 * Translator, Ten Ren Arts and Culture Foundation
 * Translator, Writer, "Tea Culture Monthly" of the Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute
 * Leader, Herin Tea Troupe, Ten Ren Foundation

published works (tea related)

 * “Specialized English for Tea”, (2008), Tenfu Tea College, Ctrl No: zyk0014462
 * “Chinese-English Tea Studies Terminology”, (2009), Tenfu Tea College, Ctrl No: zyk0030030
 * “Chinese-English Tea Studies Terminology”, (2010), Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute, Co., Ltd, ISBN978-957-9690-06-5

tea background and education

 * International Affairs, Tea Master Guild
 * Activity and International Affairs, International Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony Association
 * Tea Master, 34th Class, Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute
 * Tea Master Instructor, 5th Class, International Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony Association
 * Tea Arts Instructor, Ankang Senior Citizens Home, Taipei
 * Education & Heritage Tea Promotion Team, Taipei Tea Merchants Association
 * Tea Arts Society, Taipei Shihlin Community College
 * Jing Si Cha Dao, Tea Ceremony Studies Certification at Tzu Chi University Continuing Education Center

關於我自己 ( 中文 ) Chinese
Steven R. Jones ( 瓊斯史迪芬 )
 * 天福茶學院茶文化系：中国-福建-漳浦 [教師]
 * 陸羽茶藝中心[老師]
 * 天仁茶藝文化基金會[ 美語翻譯]
 * 陸羽茶藝中心茶藝月刊 [ 美語翻譯]
 * 天仁茶藝文化基金會和韻茶會 [會長]
 * 泡茶師聯會 [國際組 ]
 * 國際無我茶會[活動組]、 [國際組]
 * 陸羽茶藝中心 [第34屈泡茶師檢定合格]
 * 國際無我茶會 [第5屈茶道老師]
 * 台北市政府社會局老人自費安養中心 [茶藝社老師]
 * 台北市茶商業同業公會- [大稻埕找茶趣活動推動小組 ]
 * 士林社區大學茶道藝術社團
 * 慈濟靜思茶道
 * 茶藝(國際無我茶會-英文)
 * 茶文化
 * 相片

著有, 出版著作

 * 《茶文化系專業英語》 ( 天福茶學院 ，2008 ，控制號：zyk0014462)
 * 《中英文"茶學術語"》 ( 天福茶學院, 2009 ，控制號： zyk0030030)
 * 《中英文茶學術語》 ( 陸羽茶藝股份有限公司, 2010, ISBN978-957-9690-06-5)

on going

 * I am involved with several organizations, mostly nonprofit for the preservation, sharing, innovations, and expansion of: Tea Ceremony, Tea Culture, Tea Arts, Tea Lore, Incense Lore, Tea Performances, Tea Processing, and Classical Asian Arts. I am still and always a student. "Tea is our bridge", "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and quality lies in the eyes of the experienced"

related links

 * Tenfu Tea College天福茶職業技術學院
 * Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute陸羽茶藝中心財團法人
 * Group, Co., LTD Ten Ren Teaism Foundation天仁茶藝文化基金會
 * Tea Culture Society, Shilin Community College, Taipei City各國茶道藝術茶道藝術社團,臺北市士林社區大學
 * The Official Wu-Wo Tea Association國際無我茶會
 * Tea Master Guild泡茶師聯會
 * Lore,Herin Tea Troupe學識,和韻茶會
 * 台灣茶協
 * 中華茶聯
 * 鹿谷鄉農會
 * Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute Tea Culture Monthly陸羽茶藝中心(茶藝月刊)

qq
Chinese homepage for the Tea Culture Dept., Tenfu Tea College
 * http://user.qzone.qq.com/571980597/
 * icetea8的空间
 * 571980597
 * 着有, 出版著作 《茶文化系专业英语》 ( 天福茶学院，2008 ，控制号：zyk0014462)