Knowing the Nature of Tea is the Key to Brewing Good Tea!
Brewing ripe Pu-erh tea is more challenging than raw Pu-erh due to its unique characteristics. Improper brewing can result in weak flavor, thin texture, dull aroma, and unpleasant odors. Even high-quality, well-stored tea might brew into a cup that causes throat dryness and tightness. To brew delici...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
"Older is Fragrant" Has Its Limits: Pu-erh Tea Actually Has a Shelf Life
The common belief that Pu-erh tea improves indefinitely with age is challenged. While it's true that well-stored Pu-erh undergoes significant transformation over decades—developing a deeper red liquor, losing bitterness, and gaining complex honeyed and fruity aromas—this process is not eternal. Samp...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
Elegant Pu-erh Tea, How Should a Beginner Start?
Pu-erh tea is a living tea, celebrated for its enduring vitality and character that improves with age, much like a timeless work of art. For beginners, entering the world of Pu-erh involves three key stages. First, the求知stage: patiently tasting at least half a cake each of ripe and raw Pu-erh, such...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
Washing tea cups must be thorough! Because tea scale can cause cancer!
Tea scale, the brown residue left in cups after drinking tea, forms when tea polyphenols oxidize with metal elements from tea stains. Scientific research indicates that tea scale contains harmful metals like cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic, which pose serious health risks, including potential ca...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
Is Boiling Aged White Tea Healthier? I Haven't Read Much, Don't Lie to Me
Aged white tea, known for its unique sun-drying and natural withering process, is believed to offer enhanced health benefits when boiled. This method is said to fully release its beneficial compounds, such as tea polyphenols, theanine, and tea polysaccharides, which may help detoxify the body, preve...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
Pu-erh Tea: One Year for Tea, Three Years for Medicine, Seven Years for Treasure
Pu-erh tea, a unique treasure from Yunnan, China, is renowned for its health benefits and aging potential. Traditionally described as 'one year for tea, three years for medicine, seven years for treasure,' it is believed to gain medicinal value with age. Modern research confirms its numerous wellnes...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
Teach You How to Mix Herbal Teas with Various Effects!
Herbal teas are known for their benefits in regulating Qi, soothing the liver, and improving appetite. This guide provides comprehensive combinations of herbal teas tailored for different health effects, such as acne reduction, whitening, slimming, detoxifying, and improving gynecological health. Ho...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
A Tour of Pu'er's 26 Ancient Tea Mountains: The Old Wushan Ancient Tea Mountain
Old Wushan Ancient Tea Mountain, located in Yunnan, is renowned for its unique 'Dancing Tea Trees'—ancient tea trees with slender, willow-like branches that sway gracefully in the wind, locally known as 'Braid Tea,' 'Vine Tea,' or 'Willow Tea.' These trees, aged over a century, produce tea with a si...
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
A Tour of Pu'er's 26 Ancient Tea Mountains: Tianba Ancient Tea Mountain
Tianba Ancient Tea Mountain is most famous for its 'Old Haitang Tea,' one of Yunnan's eight famous teas, with a history dating back to the Ming Dynasty. The tea region belongs to the Wuliang Mountain range, with ancient tea tree resources primarily distributed in the Haitang group of Waqiao Village....
Tea News · Sep 01, 2025
A Tour of Pu'er's 26 Ancient Tea Mountains: Mengda Ancient Tea Mountain
Mengda Ancient Tea Mountain, located in Zhenyuan County, is renowned for its 'Cut Basin Tea' (Kanpenqing Tea , a celebrated Yunnan tea with a 400-year history. This tea, once offered as tribute, was recognized as one of Yunnan's八大名茶 (Eight Famous Teas in 1978. The remote Cut Basinqing tea garden, s...
Tea News · Aug 31, 2025