Ban Tian Yao Tea
Ban Tian Yao tea is an increasingly popular varietal from the category of Oolong teas known as “Wu Yi Yen teas,” or Wu Yi Rock Teas. It was hand harvested and processed during spring. It is found in the North-west of Fujian Province of South-Eastern China.
History of Ban Tian Yao tea
The name of this tea comes from its discovery as a wild-growing plant found high up on a rocky cliff in the Wu Yi Mountains. The plant was crafted into rootstalks to give rise to hybrids which could be cultivated in more accessible parts of the region.
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Bai Mu Dan Tea
Bai Mu Dan tea is a kind of Chinese white tea, which is distinguished from other white teas because it contains both new leaves and the centre needle sprout. This white tea is obtained form a handful of provinces in South-Eastern China. Although Bai Mu Dan tea is considered by many as an inferior variety of tea to the Bai Hao Yinzhen tea, most people fail to realise that this tea is a completely different variety of white tea, and has its own separate grading system.
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Bai Ji Guan Tea
Bai Ju Guan tea is one of the rarest kinds of Wu Yi Oolong tea found anywhere in the world .This tea is rumoured to have got its name from a brave rooster who died while protecting his young child from the ferocious attacks of an eagle. A monk, who was witness to the noble death of the rooster and was deeply touched by it, buried him at a particular spot in the ground, and the Bai Ji Guan tea plant sprung up from that very spot. (more…)
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Wong Lo Gat Herbal Tea
A Chinese tea that has been around since the 19th century is “Wong Lo Gat herbal tea”. The founder of this tea was Wong Lo Gat and was founded by him in the 1830’s. Since then, the recipe for Wong Lo Gat herbal tea has been passing through many generations to today’s tea culture. Three branches were started in Guangzhou by Wong Lo’s children. The tea later on became popular in different places in China like Hunan, Hubei, Shanghai, Jiangxi and Beijing.
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Golden Needle Tea
The people of China have consumed tea for thousands of years. Tea is also used as a medicine in China. However, the very first use of tea is unknown. China is considered to be the birth place of tea. Laozi, a Chinese philosopher portrayed tea as the elixir of life. He described tea as if it were the froth of liquid jade. According to the legend, Laozi was very saddened to see the degradation of society. So he was journeying to the west, towards the unoccupied territories. At the borders of China, he was offered a beverage by a customs inspector called Yin His. This beverage was nothing but tea.
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Golden Monkey Tea
Golden Monkey Tea is a Chinese beverage which has originated from Fujian and Yunnan provinces of China. The Fujian province of China accounts for almost 1/5th of China’s total tea output. This is because Fujian experiences an excellent climate of mild temperatures, lots of rainfall and a mountainous terrain. Fujian is known for tea cultivation for over a hundred years now.
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Yu Hui Tseng
Yu Hui Tseng is a Gongfu tea ceremony master. She was born in a family of Zengzi ancestors and is the only lady among the ten most recognized masters today.
Though she studied music initially, she went on to study the Gongfu tea ceremony with Master Zhang Tia Fu. Following a long apprenticeship, Tseng became a genuine tea master. She has been practicing the art since her childhood, first with her family in Taiwan’s Nantou region, then with several tea masters. When she was a child, she was woken up by her grandfather in the middle of the night to have her smell the scent of the “Queen of the Night”, a special flower that blossoms at night only once a year.
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