How many rules govern the tea ceremony?

The answer is 7.

1)  Make a satisfying bowl of tea.

2) Lay the charcoal so that the water boils efficiently.

3) Provide a sense of warmth in the winter and coolness in the summer.

4) Arrange the flowers as though they were in the field.

5) Be ready ahead of time.

6) Be prepared in case it should rain.

7)Have consideration toward your guests.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion