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T-18 Black Tea From Taiwan Created by the Black Tea Experimentation Center in Taiwan, T-18 is a hybrid produced from a tea tree from Burma (Myanmar) called Ashamu and a...

The sixth patriarch of Zen Master Hui Neng lost his father when he was three, and his mother brought him up alone. He took collecting firewood for their livelihood at...

Mr. Chen Nen Yu is a tea grower in the district of Nantou. What lead you to work in the world of tea?How and when did you begin? Do you...

Being alive is really good! But how to live life in the best way? Few people are able to comprehend this. Socrates once said "The real joy brought us wisdom,...

The Chinese symbols for gong fu are the same as those representing the martial arts: they represent mastery of time and movement. The literal meaning of gong fu is "the...

The Philosophical Meaning of "Life's Destination" "Life's destination" is a very important Tea Ceremony idea. It derived from the Buddhist concept of karma and the idea of forming good fortune,...

The Taiwanese are proud of their wulong teas, and many of them travel long distances to buy zisha teapot and tea from their favorite mountain garden. However; there has been...

As previously noted, it is the process of oxidation that determines which of the six families a tea belongs to. The wulong family of teas consists of semi-oxidized teas that...

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...

The Three Classical Aesthetic Disciplines The aesthetics of Chinese Tea Ceremony are deeply rooted in the Chinese Traditional Culture. There are many disciplines of Chinese classical aesthetics-the Confucians admire "harmony";...

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...

The Chinese Tea Ceremony aesthetics mainly includes "harmony between human and nature; people and objects spiritually know each other"; "wisdoms know water, and the benevolent know the mountains"; "Eliminating the...