Tag: Chinese Tea Culture

“欲把西湖比西子”、“从来佳茗似佳人”，苏轼的两句绝妙好词曾引起遐想与共鸣无数。而中国茶叶博物馆内有这样一群“佳人”，她们学茶、事茶，更用最美好的青春、最优美的姿态、最生动的形式诠释茶，传播茶，她们就是中国茶叶博物馆茶艺队的队员们。 “The West Lake looks like the fair lady at her best”, “A fine tea had always been compared to

信阳毛尖，亦称"豫毛峰"。产于河南大别山区的信阳市信阳县（现为浉河区），因条索紧直锋尖，茸毛显露，又产于河南信阳，故取名"信阳毛尖"。信阳毛尖品质高上，外形细秀匀直，显峰苗，色泽翠绿，白毫遍布。内质汤色嫩绿、鲜亮，香气鲜嫩高爽，叶底嫩绿明亮、细嫩、匀齐。特级品展开呈一芽一叶初展。 Xinyang Maojian is also called "Yu Maofeng" (Yu is shorthand for Henan Province in Chinese tradition). The name can

Tea for medicinal purposes has a history of 2,700 years in China. Many books, like Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic (Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)), and Classification of Tea (Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)), all recorded the tea’s effect for medicinal purposes. Tea Classics, written by Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty, recorded 24 examples to show tea’s pharmacology effect Tea contains more than 5,000 biochemistry ingredients closely correlated to human body. Tea not only can refresh the mind, clear heat, and help people lose weight, but also has certain pharmacology effects on some modern diseases, like radiation sickness,  cancer, heart disease, and blood sickness.

Researchers believe they have solved the riddle of East Asia’s remarkably low rates of heart disease and lung cancer.

Junshan Silver Needle: Produced at Qingluo Island on Dongting Lake. This Junshan "Yinzhen" leaf has very long silvery, downy tips.

Kuding tea or Ligustrum purpurascens, commonly known as Chading, Fuding tea and Gaolu tea, is a particularly bitter-tasting Chinese tea produced mainly in the provinces of Guandong and Fujian. It is one of the most famous types of tea in Chinese history. According to Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), the medicinal properties associated with Kuding tea include its ability to disperse wind-heat, clear the head and the eyes, alleviate thirst, invigorate digestion, keep up the spirits, resolve toxin, and reduce inflammation as well as lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Kuding tea contains more than 200 elements including Kuding saponins, amino acids, vitamin C, polyphenols, flavonoids, caffeine, protein, etc. The finished product features an aromatic and bitter taste at first and then a slightly sweet and cool taste, as well as many medical functions such as dispersing heat and preventing sunstroke, clearing the eyes, benefiting the brain, alleviating thirst, increasing the discharge of urine, strengthening the heart, relieving the cough, lowering blood pressure, reducing weight, preventing cancers, slowing aging, and enhancing blood circulation. Therefore it is usually dubbed as “healthy tea”, “beauty care tea”, “slimming tea”, “anti-hypertensive tea”, and “longevity tea”.