Showing posts with label seiza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seiza. Show all posts

Monday, November 15, 2010

Tea Ceremony for Visitors During G20 Summit

Here's a  totally trivial question: Why can't David Cameron sit cross-legged?

 Judging from the second photo, it looks like the current Prime Minister of the UK hasn't quite mastered the art of sitting cross-legged for the Korean tea ceremony. The two female tourists featured below seem more comfortable than he does.

Count yourself lucky, Mr Cameron - at least you didn't have to sit, seiza-style,  throughout a more formal Japanese tea ceremony - the traditional posture in which you sit " kneeling on the floor, folding your legs underneath your  thighs, while resting the buttocks on your heels."

Caption from Chosun Ilbo: Tourists take part in a tea ceremony event marking
the G20 Summit in Seoul on Friday. /Newsis


Caption from the Guardian: David Cameron drinks tea with monks at the Bongeunsa temple in Seoul
(Photograph: Darren Staples/PA)


sources:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/13/2010111300288.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/nov/11/g20-summit-seoul-south-korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/nov/11/g20-summit-seoul-south-korea#/?picture=368621728&index=20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza