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Translation: Imperial concubineAlternative name: Zhuo Yan ChaProduction area: Nantou, at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,300 feet (450 to 700 m)Harvest season: June and SeptemberCultivar: Qing Xin This tea appeared...

Translation: Tea containing GABAAlternative name: Jia YehProduction area: Taipei (Wen Shan) and Nantou, at an altitude of 1,300 to 2,000 feet (400 to 600 m)Harvest season: Two weeks before and...

Translation: Wrapped in Pinglin paperAlternative name: Wen Shan Bao ZhongProduction area: Taipei (Wen Shan), at an altitude of 1,300 to 2,000 feet (400 to 600 m)Harvest season: April, June, September...

Translation: Pear MountainProduction area: Tachung at an altitude of 6,550 to 7,900 feet (2,000 to 2,400 m)Harvest season: May and OctoberCultivar: Qing Xin The little village of Li Shan is...

Translation: Tea of the four springsProduction area: Mainly Nantou, at an altitude of 650 to 2,600 feet (200 to 800 m)Harvest season: March to NovemberCultivar: Si Ji Chun It is...

Translation: Coniferous forest close to the streamProduction area: Nantou, at an altitude of 3,300 to 5,400 feet ( 1,000 to 1,650 m)Harvest season: April, June, September and NovemberCultivar: Qing Xin...

T-18 Black Tea From Taiwan Created by the Black Tea Experimentation Center in Taiwan, T-18 is a hybrid produced from a tea tree from Burma (Myanmar) called Ashamu and a...

The sixth patriarch of Zen Master Hui Neng lost his father when he was three, and his mother brought him up alone. He took collecting firewood for their livelihood at...

Mr. Chen Nen Yu is a tea grower in the district of Nantou. What lead you to work in the world of tea?How and when did you begin? Do you...

Being alive is really good! But how to live life in the best way? Few people are able to comprehend this. Socrates once said "The real joy brought us wisdom,...

The Chinese symbols for gong fu are the same as those representing the martial arts: they represent mastery of time and movement. The literal meaning of gong fu is "the...

The Philosophical Meaning of "Life's Destination" "Life's destination" is a very important Tea Ceremony idea. It derived from the Buddhist concept of karma and the idea of forming good fortune,...