{"id":6652,"date":"2019-11-18T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-20-kuding-tea\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:29:07","slug":"chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-20-kuding-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-20-kuding-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tea Culture \u529f\u592b\u8336 20  Kuding Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Kuding tea or Ligustrum purpurascens, commo<em><\/em>nly 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 co<em><\/em>ntains 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 &ldquo;healthy tea&rdquo;, &ldquo;beauty care tea&rdquo;,  &ldquo;slimming tea&rdquo;, &ldquo;anti-hypertensive tea&rdquo;, and &ldquo;lo<em><\/em>ngevity tea&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves of Kuding tea are 1.5 to 2 times larger than those of  ordinary tea. They are oval, thick, leather-like and hairless. The dark  green fresh leaves are particularly radiant. The tea, made of tender  buds, looks thick, curled and hairless. Genuine Kuding tea tastes bitter  at first and then slightly sweet, but never acerb, spicy, smelly, sour  or others; it can be infused several times. Otherwise, it is fake and  shoddy. One kilo of Kuding tea made of tender leaves can be brewed with  150 ml water. The tea tastes stro<em><\/em>ngly fragrant even after it has been  brewed for 8 to 10 times, which far outshines the ordinary tea.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-385912916\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &ldquo;healthy tea&rdquo;, &ldquo;beauty care tea&rdquo;,  &ldquo;slimming tea&rdquo;, &ldquo;anti-hypertensive tea&rdquo;, and &ldquo;longevity tea&rdquo;.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2839],"tags":[125,118],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-tea-culture","tag-chinese-tea-culture","tag-culture"],"views":269,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}