All about Chinese Tea

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History

What Was the Tea Horse Road? History of China's Ancient Chamadao

The Tea Horse Road: How Tea Conquered the Roof of the World   There's a cobblestone path in western Sichuan, buried now under bamboo and moss, that once carried more commercial weight than any road...

Tea Preparation Through The Dynasties

Entirely unrecognizable as the beverage we think of as “tea”, descriptions of early tea preparations include one in which “The (tea) leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and ...

A Tea By Any Other Name

The Road to Tea Time begins 3,500 years ago, in the extremely rugged mountains of southern China, not terribly far from either Burma or India. It is there that a plant is identified and first culti...