This post is fifth in a series on Teas of China.
One of China’s holy mountains, Huangshan or Yellow Mountain is actually a range of some seventy-five peaks where numerous national dramas - some historic and some mythical - have taken place. In ancient times a stairway to one summit was carved into the rock by [...]
We have posted many articles and had many community discussions about the health benefits of tea, with a clear emphasis and bias toward green and white tea. A review of research, however, begs the question: Do we do ourselves a service by limiting ourselves to the least oxidized teas?
Much of the earlier research on the [...]
T Ching is currently looking for an individual to become our photo editor. It is with great sadness that our current editor, Scotia, will be leaving T Ching. She has done a wonderful job and we’ll miss her terribly. The images that you see each week are an important part of our blog. It confirms [...]
It is easy, from the remove of a tea purveyor who can purchase and enjoy some of the finest whole leaf teas the planet has to offer - at wholesale prices, to forget the socio-economic diversity of the global tea-drinking population.
Tea, being second only to water as the world’s most consumed beverage, is most certainly [...]
I regularly taste a lot of different teas, and I always do my tasting in the morning before I have altered my palate with other food or beverages. The downside of this is that I am tasting teas for several hours on an empty stomach. The result being one of the most interesting side effects [...]
Green Spring Spiral (Pi Lo Chun or Biluochun)
This is the name Qing Emperor K’ang-hsi gave this tea, possibly on the same tour when he visited the Longjing gardens no great distance from the home of Biluochun, which is in Jiangsu Province just inland from Shanghai, where it grows on Dongding Mountain overlooking Lake Taihu. The [...]
On August 30, 2008, Dr. Hassan Amjad, physician from Oak Hill, West Virginia, held the second Oak Hill tea festival in and outside of his office. Dr. Amjad is a one-man tea evangelist, serving up to 20 different teas to festival attendees, and had this to say about our favorite beverage:
“Tea has a calming effect. [...]
I have been struggling a bit lately with how often people choose to be offended, hurt or resentful in their lives. We are a society caught up in our egos and the perceptions that feed them. We react to others based on the stories we create about what we think the other person meant [...]
When we have hurt or humiliated someone, an apology is in order. If the offense was minor, an immediate apology may be effective at mending the rent. Sometimes, the apology may need to wait until emotions have cooled. Apologies should be done face to face, over a cup of tea, perhaps. [...]
There is little disagreement that tea has less caffeine than coffee. How much less is a debate that could go on forever, given the number of variables. There are plenty of decaffeinated tea bags out there, but what are the options for the whole leaf tea drinker who wants little to no caffeine in their [...]
