Illustrated Catalog of Famous Chinese Teas: Oolong Tea, Dark Tea, Compressed Tea, Scented Tea, and Specialty Tea Volume

Author: Shi Haigen
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: China is the homeland of tea, being the earliest country to discover, cultivate tea trees, process, and utilize tea leaves. With a long history of tea production, vast tea-growing regions, favorable natural conditions, and exquisite harvesting and processing techniques, China has developed a rich and diverse array of famous teas. This volume includes sections on general reviews, green teas, black teas, yellow teas, white teas, oolong teas, dark teas and compressed teas, scented teas, special teas, and an appendix, introducing tea tree varieties suitable for different tea types, various famous teas, and images of tea-scented flowers.