Why can you only pour half a cup of tea for the first time?
Simple, easy to renew the tea, even if people did not drink can continue to add some, to avoid embarrassment. Moreover, if you pour too much, people did not drink much, the tea is also cold, renewed a little or not hot, cold tea to guests is not polite. The so-called "pouring tea only seven full, leaving three is friendship", any talk, including the tea ceremony tea ceremony is to serve the role of reality.