Notes, observations, and traces from time spent with tea.
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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 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...
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....
the legend of tie guan yin
In the mist-covered mountains of Xīpíng, Ānxī, two intertwined legends gave birth to one of China's most celebrated teas.
the legend of tie guan yin
In the mist-covered mountains of Xīpíng, Ānxī, two intertwined legends gave birth to one of China's most celebrated teas.
