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1. What is tea plant?The tea plant,an important cash crop in China , is an evergreen woody plant. Tea leaves are serrated and each consists of 7-10 pairs of main veins. The lateral...

Article/Photos: Jiang Wen Zhang If one who researches tea does not understand Puerh, then his research is incomplete. If a Puerh lover has never sipped Yunnan Lincang Fengqing Xiangzhuqing Ancient...

Avery long time ago, there was an old lady living in the village of Longjing. There were 18 wild tea trees growing beside her house. Travellers often stopped by at...

Of all the crops of which humans have taken full advantage, tea is a unique one. It is not like vegetables and fruits that we eat directly, or like wheat...

Origin At the beginning of The Classic of Tea, Master Lu Yu wrote: 'Tea, the fine plant growing in the south.' He explained that tea is a Chinese plant species,...

Spread over 3,781,000 acres (1,530,000 ha), the tea gardens of China are organized in many different ways. Tea trees are arranged in rows about 3 feet (1 m) wide and...

The first governor of Darjeeling, Dr Campbell, was the first to experiment with tea planting in the region, in 1835. Campbell planted his own garden with some seeds and cuttings...

Although the first cultivars to be grown on the island of Taiwan were of Chinese origin, over the years the Taiwanese have developed their own cultivars. Some, like the Si...

By devoting themselves almost entirely to the production of wulong teas, Taiwanese growers have managed to develop a tea culture that is specific to their taste and their terroir. In...

Japanese Gardens and Plants The Japanese use a unique method of tea cultivation, which is demonstrated by the beauty of Japanese tea gardens. The tea trees are planted side by...

The tea tree is a perennial evergreen woody plant that originates in the provinces of China along the Yangtze River. It has been introduced to other countries such as Japan,...

Tea trees grow over long periods of time in certain special natural environments. Ecological factors influence and constrain the course of a tea tree's life and, thus, give rise to...