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March 8, 2014
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Chinese Tea

Wikipedia

 
This article is about varieties of Chinese tea.




Tea in Tang Dynasty

  • Premier tea

Xiazhou, Guanzhou, Huzhou,Yuezhou,Pengzhou
  • Second grade tea

Jingzhou,Ranzhou, Changzhou,Mingzhou,
  • Third grade tea

Shouzhou, Hangzhou, Muzhou,Hengzhou, Taizhou, Xuanzhou,Yiazhou, Luzhou.
  • Fourth grade tea

Jinzhou,Lianzhou,Huangzhou,Sozhou,Yunzhou,Hanzhou, Meizhou.




Tea was a major crop in Song dynasty. Tea farms spread across sixty six prefactures covering two hundred forty two counties (History of Song Dynasty ). Tea tea from Zhejiang and Fujian
were expensive tribute tea, some were exported to South East Asia and Arab countries.

Tea was manufactured into tea cake, some embossed with patterns of dragon and phoenix with
exotic names:

Large dragon tea cake, small dragon tea cake, Surpass Snow Dragon Ball cake, Fine Silver Sprout,
Cloud Leave, Gold Money, Jade flower, Inch of Gold, Longevity Sprout, Eternal Spring Jade Leave,
Dragon in the Clouds, Longevity Dragon Sprout, Dragon Phoenix and Flower, Eternal Spring Silver Sprout.....










Category:Tea

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chinese Tea".


Last Modified:   2005-03-02


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