• Let’s first enjoy a cup of tea.

• What do you think of the tea?

 China, the Homeland of Tea
• China is the homeland of tea. It is
believed that China has tea-shrubs as
early as five to six thousand years
ago, and human cultivation of tea
plants dates back two thousand years.
• The habit of tea drinking spread to
Japan in the 6th century, but it was
not introduced to Europe and America
till the 17th and 18th centuries.
• The word for tea leaves or tea as a
drink
 茶圣
陆羽
Lu Yu
( 733—804A.D.)
Master of Tea
《茶经》 (chá jīn
g)
The Book of Te
 “Chá” 茶
• (Mandarin) ：茶 Chá
• (Xiamenese) ： TAY
• (Japanese) ： CHA
• (English) ： TEA
• (Turkish) ： CHAY
• (Russian) ： CHAI
• ……
 中国书法中的“茶”
The Chinese character "TEA" written with Chinese calligraphy b

rush.
Tea Leaves

Making Tea

Taste Tea
 Think it over:
• What do we need
if we want to ma
ke some tea?
 We need…

• Tea Leaves
• Water
• Tea Pot
• ……
 Water
• The best water for tea
is the spring water.
• Different tea leaves g
o with the water with
different temperature.
• Baotu Spring- “the fi
rst Spring under heave
n”
• Hupao Spring in Hangzh
ou, Zhejiang Province
 壶（ hú ） (POT)
• People in different regions
might use different tea se
ts for tea serving.
• Large teapots are favored
in North China.
• Those commonly used in So
uth China, especially in Fuji
an and Canton, are pretty s
mall, sometimes even as tin
y as a fist.
 紫砂壶（ zǐshāhú ）
• 紫砂壶（ zǐshāhú ） (Purple Cla
y Teapot) is one of the mo
st widely used tea pots in
China.
• The best Purple Clay Teapo
t in China is produced in
Yixing, Zhejiang Province.
 The
teapot
made of
a part of
the
trunk of
a pine
tree.
Tea Leaves
Garden of Tea Plants
 Best Way to Store Tea
• tins or jars made of porcelain o
r iron
• sealed containers without any sm
ell
• desiccants such as charcoal or s
ilica gel can help maintain cont
ainers dry.
Golden Turtle Tea Box of
Tang Dynasty (618~907
A.D.)
 Tips for Tea Storage

①dryness
②low temperature
③avoiding light
④keeping away from bad smell
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Green tea
• Black tea
• Oolong tea
• Scented tea
• Compressed tea
• others
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Green tea is the variety which keeps the o
riginal colour of the tea leaves without fer
mentation during processing.
• This category consists mainly of
Longjing tea of Zhejiang Province,
Maofeng of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui P
rovince
and
Biluochun produced in Jiangsu.
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Black tea
known as "red tea" (hóng chá) in China, is the ca
tegory which is fermented before baking;
it is a later variety developed on the basis of th
e green tea.
• The best brands of black tea are
Qihong of Anhui , Dianhong of Yunnan,
Suhong of Jiangsu, Chuanhong of Sichuan
and
Huhong of Hunan.
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Oolong tea
This represents a variety half way between
the green and the black teas, being made a
fter partial fermentation.
• It is a specialty from the provinces on Chin
a's southeast coast:
Fujian,
Guangdong
and
Taiwan.
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Scented tea
This kind of tea is made by mixing
fragrant flowers in the tea leaves in
the course of processing. The flowers
commonly used for this purpose are
jasmine and magnolia among others.
• Jasmine tea is a well-known favorite
with the northerners of China and
with a growing number of foreigners.
 Types of Chinese Tea
• Compressed tea
• This is the kind of tea which is compressed
and hardened into a certain shape.
• Most of the compressed tea is in the form
of bricks; it is, therefore, generally called
"brick tea", though it is sometimes also in
the form of cakes and bowls.
• It is mainly produced in Hubei, Hunan, Sich
uan and Yunnan provinces.
 Tea Art and
Tea Culture
Different places in China has different
customs of Tea Making and Tea
Drinking.
茶馆
Tea house
Tea-drinking?
Or

Acrobatics?
 Green tea
Longjing （ Dragon Well ）
Maofeng （ Fur Peak ）
Biluochun （ Spring Snail ）
Black tea
 Oolong tea
Tieguanyin （ Iron Guanyin ）
Scented tea
Compressed tea
 Other information about tea
• Chinese Tea Custom
• Advantages of Tea-Drinking
• The story of Chinese tea bricks
 Websites for Reference
• www.Chinese-Tea.net
• www.tea.co.uk