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There are six integrated mountains in the beautiful Xishuangbanna Prefecture of Yunnan. Known as "the Six Major Tea Mountains", they are the place of origin of the Pu'er Tea. In...

Chinese teahouses have many things in common with western cafes. They are both the venue for leisure spending and | amusement. However, they have totally different atmospheres. A teahouse is...

Tea custom refer to the social custom and habits focusing on tea or carried on by tea that have gradually taken shaped during the long-term social life. Tea custom show...

Chinese people have seven necessities in their daily life: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea. Of them, tea is the only drink. Tea has fully merged into Chinese...

Steaming: Before processing, the fresh tea leaves should be soaked in water and rinsed. Then, they are steamed in a steamer to get rid of the dust and reduce their...

The Classic of Tea is the first book on tea in the world. It was written by Lu Yu, founder of Chinese tea ceremony. Completed around 750 A.D., it systematically...

"The personages examine water well and the masters fancy tea competition", Brewing tea and examining the water is One Of the features of the Chinese Tea Ceremony. The Japanese and...

The Chinese character 茶(tea, pronounced as cha) evolved from the character 荼(pronounced as tu), a kind of bitter vegetable. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Chinese pronunciation for tea had...

Utensils are the "father of tea". Our country is a civilized Nation, has a very rich food and beverage culture, there used to be a saying that "cuisine is not...

The Ancient Tea-horse Road stemmed from the traditional Tea-Horse Trade by Barter between Han and Tibetan peoples in the Tang Dynasty(618-907) and the Song Dynasty(960-1279). That were mainly tea-for-horse or...

"Atmosphere" is a very important concept in the Chinese Classical Aesthetics. It was officially put forward by Wang Changling, a Tang Dynasty poet, in his Poem Personality. He said that...

The tea tree is a perennial evergreen woody plant that originates in the provinces of China along the Yangtze River. It has been introduced to other countries such as Japan,...