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When we talk about tea drinking in old Beijing, we should start with the history of lea, tea leaves and teahouses. The history of tea drinking in Beijing dates back...

With 40,000 square meters and 1,000 booths, the 2008 Guangzhou Tea Expo, China's most influential expo, will sparkle with charm from 20-24 November af the Continental International Exhibition Center, located...

A tradition of Buddhist temples in Beijing is to entertain visitors with tea. In imperial times when a provincial official came to the national capital he would often stay in...

Inscribed on the panels of a corridor in the main hall of Lao She Teahouse are the names of celebrities who have visited the teahouse since its founding in 1988....

Text by: Heidi Kyser It's satisfying to see your dreams come true; especially when that means they're coming true for a lot of other people too. That's the case for...

Liulichang is a famous street of antiques and culture. In the middle of the 1990s Feng Jianhua opened on this street a teahouse with the purpose to promote Beijing traditional...

In the 1990s teahouses of a modem sense sprang up in Beijing. Called tea art house, they are elaborately decorated with an atmosphere blending Chinese traditional culture with modem life....

Article: Bian Zheng Photo: Chen Ming Tsung Pitchers, which were hardly seen at the early stage of tea art development in Taiwan, have since become a very important part of...

Author,Zeng Zhixian Photos, Li Jun This was once an isolated utopia, a village where work began at dawn and ended at sunset. But due to the fact that this area...

Article by Aaron Fisher; Photo and Cham Kam Pong PROFILEMr. Fisher was born in the U.S. He studied philosophy and anthropology. Afterwards he traveled extensively, living in India, China, and...

PROFILEThe Executive Editor of (The Art of Tea) , (Puerh Teapot) , (The Art of Crafting a Teapot), (Ceramic Art). In the deep autumn of Xishuangbanna, I sampled fourteen different...

They say that the flavor of tea is the flavor of Zen, and without an understanding of one, there is no mastery of the other. Throughout the ages there were...