Nature of Things

  • Feb212017
    Playing with the farmer's boy on the side of the small tea field

    The Fragrance of Taiwan

    Red Jade: rare gem of a tea For those who think Red Jade is just another marketing name, “Hong Yu”…

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  • Dec022016
    Tea Green Leafhopper

    The Little Bug that Created a Tea

    Tea Green Leafhopper is a small pest in the tea field. Yet without it a most beautiful tea cannot be produced. It is the chain biochemistry reaction in one particular tea plant after the leaf has been bitten by this tiny creature that results in the unique Beauty of the Orient…

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  • Oct032016
    Big White vs Small White

    Poor Men’s Song Cultivar

    Small white There actually isn’t a Small White in Fenghuang Dancong, but a cultivar named Fenghuang Baiye — i.e. Phoenix…

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  • Sep222016
    Mr Wu, Longjing farmer

    The Black Tea that My Longjing Farmer Drinks

    Mrs Wu, wife of our Longjing farmer Every time I see Mrs Wu I feel happy just to see the…

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  • Sep092016
    Kids with lanterns

    Tea for Mooncake?

    Mid Autumn Festival As the shape of the moon grows fuller towards what the lunar calendar marks as Mid-Autumn, Mooncake Festival…

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  • Aug172016
    Tea picking in Alishan

    Muzha to Alishan

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  • Jul272016
    tea picking in Dong Ding

    From Dong Ding to Cold Peak

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  • Nov142011
    Leaf shoots of the tea plant

    Health Benefits of Tea

    A hot research focus Repeatedly in scientific researches all over the world, contents in tea have been found to possess…

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  • Nov142011
    A certificate of originality by the Yixing pot artist Pang Yao Nian

    Yixing Teapots: Artist Ranking

    There is a double tiered, multi-level ranking system for artists and craftspeople in Mainland China. Yixing teapot makers are generally…

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  • Nov142011
    Drawing an opening on the teapot

    Handcrafting Yixing Teapots

    Although in recent years the Taiwanese and the Japanese have developed techniques in mould casting teapots using materials derived from…

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