(Ruo Shen and Meng Chen were famous ceramic artisans, Geyao a famous pottery and porcelain area, and tihu an elegant type of wine.) But such people were not in the majority. Taiwan in the Qing dynasty era was still primarily a pioneering agricultural society. People were not very particular about their tea utensils, nor about the environment in which the tea was consumed.
（若琛杯、孟臣壺、哥盤都是名家茶具）的講究喝法，但當時還處在墾殖農業社會的台灣，大多數平民所繼承的「工夫茶」喝法，既不講究喝茶器皿，也不講究品茗環境。