Umi Tea Sets Blog

On 3rd October 2010, the author visited Bangmu village on the east side of Mengku, Lincang district for an opportunity to get involved with the making of Puerh tea, this...

Article: Li Jun Photos: Li Jun, Luo Yingyin Mengku, in the Lincang area is by no means unknown to tea drinkers, but without the fame of Puerh tea, most of...

Trees were growing in the mountainous and rainy primitive forests in Yunnaan Guizhou, Sichuan and other Provinces in the wry beginning. Later they were planted and transplanted by people, who...

The now legendary scholar Zhuxi said of his home on Wuyi Mountain that it stood like the pillars of Heaven, and left you in awe of this infinite universe. The...

Tea is beneficial to people's health. This fact seemed to have been discovered as soon as tea itself was discovered. Tea helped to relieve Shennong of the 72 different kind!...

Tea is a drink. This is a convention that formed more than a thousand years ago. As drinking tea evolved and became elevated to a spiritual level,eating tea has come...

China has six different types of tea: red tea; green tea; white tea; black tea; yellow tea and greenish tea. Teas have different types and processing procedure are different too,...

All varieties of green and black tea come from the tea bush. This plant, a member of the camellia family, has deep green leaves with a glossy finish and serrated...

All genuine types of tea (black, green, white and Oolong) come from the tea bush Camellia sinensis. This occurs in two varieties: Camellia sinensis, originally from China, and Camellia assamica,...

"Tea comforts the spirit banishes passivity, lightens the body and adds sparkle to the eyes" Shen Nong, Medicinal Herbs Ever since Shen Nong discovered the stimulating and detoxifying properties of...

The final stage in the tea process is the sorting, or grading, of the leaf. As the leaf particles emerge from the dryers or ovens, they are passed through sifters...