Tea Education

  As many of have seen I am trying to do more videos this year, really bring you in to the tea areas. That being said sometimes the camera cant catch it all. In my last trip to 大谷运, Da Gu Yun, this was the case. In this article I give you some more details of my travels including more information about the tea making and a couple corrects to things I said in the video. (The idea that maybe that big tree was an old tree for example.) Our story begins with me going up a winding road in...

  I ride a bus deep into the mountains, get off, and just hope I am in the right spot. Sometimes I'm not. I got off the bus is a small area of Fu Ding and began to feel like I wasn't in the right place, again. So in the end, I was in the right town and I found my friend. But I want to focus on the last frame of the video. If you look at the end of the videa I am sweeping from left to right. On one side is crazy forrests, on the other is...

This time we go to a region in Shi Xian, outside of the Huang Shan core region. We arrived in Shi Xian around 2 oclock on April 4th. At this time many of the farmers had come back from Picking Huang Shan Mao Feng and were selling it to the local factories. Farmers in much of China pick what is in season and dont normally specialize in one crop. In the spring it is tea season, in winter they pick flowers. Farmers will line up to have their teas inspected and weighed. A tea boss will inspect their basket for...

Welcome to the first edition of Mao Feng Monday. Every Monday for the next few weeks I will be traveling to a Huang Shan Mao Feng producing region. The goal is to document the many intricacies of Mao Feng picking, making, and evaluating. The first Monday I went to Hou Gu 猴谷, which is next to Tang Kou 汤口. These areas are in the core region of Huang Shan, at the highest elevation, and produce the best Huang Shan Mao Fengs. I had been to this area once before in the winter when the tea was not picking. This trip...

In this new series called Behond the Tea. I will talk about things that are not exactly tea, but have some relation to them in one way or another. Tea is very connected to Chinese culture and my hope is that you will understand tea better by understanding the things that are going on around tea. These things may they be historical, cultural or geographic, shape tea culture and have great influence on the tea we drink today. So with out further adue I would like to introduce Behond the Tea Part one: Huizhou. Dried pork is a common food...