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Part 6 - Wuyi Folk Legends and the Red Tea Story

Part 6 - Wuyi Folk Legends and the Red Tea Story

Part 6 : Wuyi Folk Legends and the Red Tea Story   Many tea drinkers heard the story. Soldiers arrived during harvest season. Tea leaves were left unattended. By the...

Part 6 - Wuyi Folk Legends and the Red Tea Story

Part 6 : Wuyi Folk Legends and the Red Tea Story   Many tea drinkers heard the story. Soldiers arrived during harvest season. Tea leaves were left unattended. By the...

Wuyi Tea researching center by jing tea shop

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...

Anxi oolong leaves ban qing ban hong by jing tea shop

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...

wuyi cha by jing tea shop

Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiao...

Part 3 : The Essential Differences Between Xiaozhong Hongcha and Qingcha   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 Qingcha   Today, tea categories seem very clear: green tea, black tea, oolong tea. But historical tea making did not...

wu yi shan zhi by jing tea shop

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...

fermented leaves of anxi oolong by jing tea shop

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...