Following this pattern, they go through six rounds of tea. The tea servers dump the already fully opened (and thus exhausted) tea leaves into the trays, which take on the appearance of tables of famous culinary delights set out for everyone to admire. Looking at the leaves, one aficionado says: "That's just what classic good tea should look like, with one center leaf and two branching leaves."
如此茶過六巡，茶主人將已經舒張開的茶葉倒在盤中，有如一盤名菜般供大家欣賞，「是標準的好茶，一心二葉呢」，在眾人讚嘆聲中，茶會的第一階段結束了。