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The History of Chinese Tea

ByDerry Liu 2022-10-10

It’s a long history of Chinese tea.5000 years ago, in the Shennong era, tea was first used as medicine. 3000 years ago, the people who lived in the Zhou Dynasty began to cultivate tea trees for human consumption. 2300 years ago, people used tea to make soup and the primitive form of tea cake appeared…

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Three Essential Things About Chinese Gongfu Tea Brewing

ByDerry Liu 2022-10-102022-10-10

There are three essential things about Chinese Gongfu Tea brewing, which are tea-water ratio, the temperature of water and steeping time.First of all, the tea-water ration should be appropriate, it helps the tea to present its best taste. Generally speaking, when you brew green tea or yellow tea, the combination of 1 gram tea with…

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How to smell the aroma of tea in a Chinese tea ceremony

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-282022-10-18

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Caffeine content in different types of tea

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-272022-10-20

For heart race problem, it’s mainly coursed by caffeine. Basically, the more process involved (fermented) when making the tea, the less caffeine the tea contains. So green tea and white tea (not aged) have the most caffeine, but black tea and dark tea have the least. Ripe Puerh tea (普洱熟茶) belongs to dark tea and…

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3 destinations to visit in China related to tea

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-272022-10-18

Where would you like to visit if you come to China? In relation to tea, I’ll recommend 3 most attractive destinations for you.The first one is Yunnan Province, where you can find tons of different Puerh tea. Lincang, Puerh and Xishuangbanna are all well-known tea growing regions. There are some ancient tea tree growing in…

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From Eating Tea to Drinking Tea

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-15

The way of using tea has been changing with time. When tea was first discovered, people ate fresh tea leaves directly and chewing them. Gradually people ate and drank tea after boiling it. Even now, the saying chi cha (吃茶), meaning eating tea, and the modes of eating tea still exist in many places of…

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Mid-autumn Festival and Moon Cakes

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-15

According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the seventh, eighth and ninth months belong to the season autumn. The eighth lunar month is in the middle of autumn, and the 15th of the eighth month is in the middle of this month. So, the festival is called “Mid-Autumn Festival”.In autumns it is usually clear and cool…

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The First Person to Plant Tea Trees

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-15

The first person who planted tea trees in the world was Wu Lizhen.During the years from 200 BC to 53 BC, one day Wu Lizhen felt exhausted for cutting wood, he randomly plucked some tea leaves and put them into his mouth. After eating tea leaves his tiredness was completely removed. His mother and neighbors…

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Tea–An Effective Anti-obesity Agent

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-042022-09-15

Research has found that tea is a potent anti-obesity agent, despite differences in composition and mechanism of action between different types of tea.As we all know, tea polyphenols are the beneficial components shared by tea, and among all kinds, green tea is the most prominent. The main component of tea polyphenols, EGCG, can produce anti-obesity…

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The Relation between Tea and Female

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-04

The botanical name of tea was redefined as Camellia Sinensis in 1956. In 250 years before that year, the botanical name of tea was Thea Sinensis. The change of the name might be for memory of the German botanist Goerg Josef Kamel who was the first person describing the tea plant in the western world.As…

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Why Do We Use Fairness Cups?

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-04

Why do we use a fairness cup when drinking tea?It has 2 functions. First, it’s an intermediary between the tea pot or Gaiwan and your tea cup. In Chinese Gongfu tea, if teas are soaked in hot water for long time, it will be oversteeped and get much stronger in taste. The fairness cup works…

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Teatime of a Day

ByDerry Liu 2022-09-042022-09-04

Do you match the teatime and the tea type correctly?Black tea is suitable to drink in the morning. It is mild, and you may drink it at breakfast, or after breakfast. Drinking some black tea in the morning can promote blood circulation, eliminate cold, and refresh our mind.In the afternoon, green tea or white tea…

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