Wang Qiong,Guru of Chinese tea culture,Soundbite:"When combined with diverse national and cultural values, a simple leaf from a tree can present a multitude of expressions. For instance, in Japan, tea drinking integrates with Japanese culture ...
Since Chinese tea-drinking custom spread overseas and tea became a world’s recreational drink, other countries imported tea tree planting and cultivating techniques, tea processing and drinking methods, and tea ceremony (Cha Daoin Chinese) from China one after another. Figure6C shows the dates whe...
The starting point of this habitual tea drinking came with the publication of “The Classic of Tea” by the Tang dynasty writer Lu Yu. This book tied tea-drinking with Buddhist thought, which greatly influenced the highly spiritual Chinese culture at that time. 这种饮茶习惯的起点是唐朝作家陆羽...
A person’s status of health, therefore, is synthetically determined by four areas of health: (1) physical health, meaning that one can move through the world the way he likes, without disease, ailment or discomfort; namely, the ability to exist and the body to operate; (2) spiritual ...
Tea, found in countless coffee shops and home pantries worldwide, has a rich history dating back thousands of years. The history began in 2737 BCE when legend states Emperor Shen Nung of China was sitting under a Camellia Sinensis tree while his servant
Using the Chi- nese tea tree planting techniques, British launched a tea industry in Assam and started large-scale production and commercialization of the plant in India to bypass the China or Dutch monopoly on tea trade. Nowadays, tea plants derived either directly or indirectly from China have...
From fresh tea leaves to a good cuppa, there are many variables in between, from tea tree varieties, tea-growing environment, tea processing to tea storage and brewing, and finally forms the cup of tea that you drink. This article will not elaborate on the formation of the unique flavour ...
There must be more than a hundred in that old White Oak Tree. They have found refuge there during the hot and humid Florida summers. Every now and again something prompts all of them, at the same time, out of that tree. When that happens you hear their lovely, crowing voices. They ...
2、g to the legend, tea was first discovered by the Chinese emperor and inventor Shennong in 2737 BC .One day, he used a kind of tree leaves to ease his case and it turned out to be a tea tree. China is considered to have the earliest records of tea drinking .With record, tea ...
The tea plant itself is actually a type of evergreen tree or shrub. Its origins are located in the humid and semi-tropical area of southern China, Burma and India. The name Camellia is the Latin name of the flowering plant family the tea plant is classified in. Sinensis is the Latin te...