Tea Times with Jing
Part 5 : Wuyi Yancha and Wuyi Cha
The mountains of Wuyi have been producing tea for centuries. But the name has not always meant the same thing. Long before yancha became a category, Wuyi tea was simply...
Part 5 : Wuyi Yancha and Wuyi Cha
The mountains of Wuyi have been producing tea for centuries. But the name has not always meant the same thing. Long before yancha became a category, Wuyi tea was simply...
Part 4 : Ban Qing Ban Hong — what does it mean?
Half green, half red. The phrase drifts through centuries of tea writing like smoke through a mountain valley — familiar, evocative, and just out of reach. But what if it...
Part 4 : Ban Qing Ban Hong — what does it mean?
Half green, half red. The phrase drifts through centuries of tea writing like smoke through a mountain valley — familiar, evocative, and just out of reach. But what if it...
Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiao...
Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiaozhong Hongcha and Qingsha Today, tea categories seem very clear: green tea, black tea, oolong tea. But historical tea making did not...
Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiao...
Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiaozhong Hongcha and Qingsha Today, tea categories seem very clear: green tea, black tea, oolong tea. But historical tea making did not...
Part 2 - Can the Documentary Evidence Support t...
The texts are familiar, the quotations circulated for centuries. Read slowly, the poems of Ruan Minxi and passages of Lu Tingcan show the evidence for Wuyishan as oolong tea’s birthplace...
Part 2 - Can the Documentary Evidence Support t...
The texts are familiar, the quotations circulated for centuries. Read slowly, the poems of Ruan Minxi and passages of Lu Tingcan show the evidence for Wuyishan as oolong tea’s birthplace...
Part 1 : Half Green, Half Red. Where Does the Q...
Before anyone asked where oolong tea began, someone had to decide what the old texts actually meant. Words written without knowing they would one day become evidence. This is where...
Part 1 : Half Green, Half Red. Where Does the Q...
Before anyone asked where oolong tea began, someone had to decide what the old texts actually meant. Words written without knowing they would one day become evidence. This is where...
How Wulong Was Understood in Early 20th-Century...
The name Wulong did not begin as a category. In the tea hills of Ānxī in Fújiàn, growers once used the word wūlóng simply to refer to a tea tree....
How Wulong Was Understood in Early 20th-Century...
The name Wulong did not begin as a category. In the tea hills of Ānxī in Fújiàn, growers once used the word wūlóng simply to refer to a tea tree....
