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Fujian Tea Ceremony

Check out this video of a Chinese tea ceremony we filmed on a trip to Fujian!

A great guide in loose tea brewing! Check out this still shot from the video...

Warming the cups

Have you had any similar experiences?

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This entry was posted in China Trips, Chinese Tea and tagged tea ceremony, oolong tea, fujian, chinese tea, youtube on March 27, 2013 by hannah.
Tea Cultivars

To be honest with you, before I started drinking tea the word cultivar wasn’t one that I had come across before as I am not that in to gardening or plants in general.

Well that was until I fell in love with tea and in doing so the Camellia Sinensis plant.

According to Wikipedia a cultivar is “a plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation.” But if like I did, you have no idea what that means then let’s do some investigating. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in China Province, Chinese Tea and tagged black longjing, white peony, tea plant, camellia sinensis, cultivar, fujian, oolong, Tea on October 30, 2012 by hannah.
Fujian at a glance

At LuLin Teas we source all of our teas from small independent farms in China. We are based in the UK so we frequently visit China to try new teas and see how the farms are doing. We have an office in Shanghai but obviously Shanghai isn’t known for tea growing so while we are there we travel all over China.

I’m going to focus this entry on Fujian in the Peoples Republic of China (not to be confused with Fujian in The Republic of China (Taiwan)), an area that I have spent some time in and from where we get much of our Oolong Tea.

Fujian is the area highlighted in red!

Fujian is a province on the southeast coast of the country. The name Fujian comes from the two cities of Fuzhou and Jian’ou merged during the Tang Dynasty. See the other provinces we get our chinese tea from. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in China Province, China Trips, Tea and tagged da hong pao, wuyi mountain, travel, fujian, chinese tea, oolong, lapsang souchong, blooming tea, Jasmine Pearls, China on June 11, 2012 by hannah.