Category: Culture
Created by: U2Chinese
Number of Blossarys: 2
English (EN) 
Tea drinking became a necessary addition to the diet of herding peoples living in the border areas. About the 5th century the tea had been bartered for horses with nomadic peoples on Chinese borders. ...
On one hand, tea drinking began in China and became an integral part of Chinese life and in other Asian countries such as Indian, Japan and Korea. The culture that grew up around it from the third ...
In manufacturing high-grade tea, the leaves should be plucked separately according to whether they are buds or leaves. The leaves are slightly dried in the sun in order to get rid of the watery ...
The time for sowing tea seeds is in September. The best tea generally grows in the high mountain peaks, the water quality, the fertile soil and abundant sunshine, where fogs and snow prevail, which ...
Someone believe that the tea plant is not indigenous to China, and is said it have been brought to China by Da Mo-Bodhidharma, in the 6th century and by the 9th century it was in general use as a ...
Written by Lu Yu in about the year of 780 is the world’s first book on tea. The book is detailed account on how to grow, prepare and drink tea as well as on the classification of tea, studies of tea ...
Lu Yu wrote the Canon of Tea in the Tang Dynasty about the year780. This is the first book about tea. So Lu Yu is known as the Tea saint.
