Precious Pre-Qingming Fuding White Tea
Pre-Qingming Fuding White Tea, harvested before the Qingming Festival (around April 5th , is highly prized for its rarity and quality. The tender buds, rich in aromatic and flavorful compounds, grow slowly in the cool early spring, resulting in a very limited yield. While often considered superior,...
Tea News · Dec 12, 2025
Making Tea | Discussing the Choice of Water
Making tea is an art that requires careful consideration of water selection. Since ancient times, tea connoisseurs have emphasized that water quality directly impacts the flavor, aroma, and color of tea. The best water for brewing tea should be clean, sweet, fresh, and preferably from natural source...
Tea News · Dec 11, 2025
The Diplomatic Role of Tea in History
For most Chinese people, tea represents flavor and culture. However, throughout history, tea has repeatedly served as a catalyst for wars. The strategy of 'using tea to control foreign tribes' was a consistent policy of Central Plains dynasties since the Tang and Song periods, reaching its peak in t...
Tea News · Dec 11, 2025
30 Laws of Teapot Cultivation, Laughed at the Last One
This article outlines 30 practical and philosophical guidelines for cultivating and maintaining Yixing teapots. It emphasizes a natural, patient approach, advising against obsessive cleaning and highlighting that teapots should serve the tea, not the other way around. Key tips include proper initial...
Tea News · Dec 11, 2025
Fuzhuan Tea Will Be a Special Health Beverage for Urban Populations in the Future
Fuzhuan tea is a high-grade variety of the ancient dark tea category. As a fully fermented tea, it features the most complex processing, the longest production cycle, and unique techniques among all tea types. Through processes like pile-fermentation and 'flowering,' it develops golden-yellow Euroti...
Tea News · Dec 11, 2025
Listen to Me Talk About the Real West Lake Longjing Tea
West Lake Longjing tea, renowned as the 'Queen of Green Tea,' faces challenges from commercialization and counterfeits. As a local tea farmer and wholesaler, I aim to clarify the realities. Authentic West Lake Longjing is produced within Hangzhou's West Lake area, with sub-regions like core (Shi, Lo...
Tea News · Dec 10, 2025
What is Tea Paste?
Tea paste is a concentrated solid instant tea product made from the leaves of large-leaf arbor tea trees native to Yunnan, China. It has a history dating back to the Southern Tang Dynasty, matured in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and thrives today. The production process involves...
Tea News · Dec 10, 2025
How to Distinguish Between Dry and Wet Pu-erh Tea?
Pu-erh tea can be categorized in various ways, including raw and ripe tea, compressed tea, tuo cha, or brick tea based on shape, and dry storage versus wet storage based on aging conditions. Many tea enthusiasts find it challenging to differentiate between dry-stored and wet-stored Pu-erh. This arti...
Tea News · Dec 10, 2025
Tea Knowledge: Tea Sensory Evaluation
Tea sensory evaluation is the work of judging the color, aroma, taste, and shape of tea leaves through human sensory organs such as smell, taste, vision, and touch. It requires evaluators to have keen senses and strong discernment. Currently, the grading, classification, and pricing of tea worldwide...
Tea News · Dec 09, 2025
When Mingqian Meets Yuqian
The article discusses the distinction between Mingqian tea (pre-Qingming and Yuqian tea (pre-rain in Chinese tea culture. It explains that due to China's vast climate and regional differences, only tea picked in the Jiangnan region before the Qingming festival qualifies as 'Mingqian tea.' Early sp...
Tea News · Dec 09, 2025