Dong Ding Tea (冻顶 )
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Categories: Tea Wulong
Dong Ding is both the name of a tea, and the name of a mountain in the Nantou region of Taiwan, in Lugu (Deer Valley) (鹿谷). This is where the first tea plants were supposed to have been brought over from China and planted, more than 120 years ago. The…
Visiting A Teahouse
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Categories: Tea Related
There are very many different teahouses, some differ by function, others by culture. There are teahouses which serve tea only as an afterthought, concentrating mainly on food, such as the teahouses in Guangzhou and Hong Kong; there are teahouses in China where operas or storytelling takes place as entertainment while…
The Tea Mind
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Today’s entry is submitted by a guest writer, my good friend 醉茶仕 (Zui Cha Shi or The Gentleman Drunk on Tea):
Solitary drinking, or so I am told, is one of the first signs of alcoholism. Perhaps that is one of the main differences between the culture of tea and…
Pouring of Tea
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As promised, I will explain a little on why the pouring of tea into cups is known as “General Guan Patrols the City” (关公巡城） and “Han Xin Counts His Troops” （韩信点兵）.
A little bit of Chinese history first, to give a proper context to the two idioms. General Guan, or…
Longjing (龙井） and Bi Luo Chun （碧螺春）
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Categories: Tea Green
As with the other types of tea, there is a multitude of varieties for green tea. Green tea is more popular among the Japanese, but there are still some widely famous Chinese green teas. Two of them are Longjing (龙井） and Bi Luo Chun （碧螺春）.
The best and most famous…
Let’s Talk About Pots
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Categories: Tea Related Teapots
It takes several things to make a good cup of tea. Naturally you need good leaves, decent water, and a controllable source of heat so that water temperature can be optimised. Another important factor is the teapot, which contains the leaves and a good one allows water to circulate and…
The How of Tea Part One
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Reading a 1956 book by Gervas Huxley, entitled “Talking of Tea”. Old books offer a window into the past, not just on how things were done, but how people then looked at the even more distant past.
What surprised me was that teabags were more expensive then than loose…
White Tea 白茶
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Categories: Tea White
White tea has been known since at least the Tang dynasty, but it has always been rare. To make white tea, only the unopened leaf buds can be used, and cannot be fermented or roasted. Of all teas, other than decaffeinated ones, white tea has the least amount of caffeine.…
