Tea Infinite Horizon, a 7,500-square-meter immersive exhibition focused on tea culture, kicked off in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Thursday. As the flagship event of this year’s Global Tea Fair, it weaves together the past, present, and future of tea culture across three major exhibition zones.

Bringing together over 50 artists and national-level intangible heritage bearers, along with more than 80 leading tea culture brands, it creates an engaging Oriental tea experience space designed for immersion, interaction, and co-creation.

Visitors can step into a dreamlike digital landscape garden for a fantasy journey. The exhibition also features robot tea brewing performances, diancha (powdered tea whisking) intangible heritage traditions, and a large selection of exquisite tea sets.

The exhibition is a part of the 18th The Global Tea fair Shenzhen (Spring), a large-scale domestic tea industry exhibition of a similar scale, held by Huajuchen Group since 2006.

ALSO READ: Popularity of Indian tea helps traditional links with China

Tourists can experience Chinese traditional culture and tea culture from multiple perspectives, including auditory, hearing and physical experiencing through the MR experience area created by artists making use of technology. The team virtualizes the images of ancient Chinese poets and tea experts Lu Yu and Lu Tong, who are known as “Tea sages”.

Technology has also changed the way people drink tea. The organizers set up a robot tea-making area where visitors can communicate with AI-motivated humanoid robots and customize tea to their own taste.

Contact the writer at bingcun@chinadailyhk.com