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Autumn Tea

Autumn is now well established.Temperatures are slowly dropping.The sky is getting darker.We want to stay home, seeking a cocoon of sweetness.The warmth of autumn colors envelops us.Would you find a better tea for this season than a fragrant Qimei ?Tasty notes of bakery and cocoa combined with the enveloping sweetness of powdery rose ...And for you, which tea best represents this period?

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From a Seed to a Leaf

For new tree, you need to plant a seed. Or more simply let nature take its course: the tree makes a fruit, the fruit falls or is eaten by an animal which transports it far away, and the seed germinates and gives rise to a new shrub, a new tree… With a few exceptions , it is the universal method of reproduction of fruit trees.But what about the tea plant? It's a camellia with pretty white flowers and funny trilobed fruits. It even bears so much fruit that in certain regions of China it is made one of the most popular oils. However, few of these seeds will give a new tea plant ...For centuries, when one wants to multiply...

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Mid Autumn Festival and Chinese National Fest

 This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese National Day fall on the same day: October 1.In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals of the year after the Spring Festival which marks the start of the New Year. As often, there are different ways to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival depending on where you are in China, but the essence of this festival is to admire the moon during a walk afterwards. a family dinner. In Shanghai, this dinner is often composed of ravioli with a peanut sauce. The 15th day of the 8th lunar month corresponds to the roundest and brightest full moon of the year ...The flagship food of this festival is the moon...

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Roasting Season in Wuyishan

When we lived in the megalopolis of Shanghai, every year we felt the need to take a deep breath of nature when autumn arrived. And a tradition was born, taking the train at the end of September to spend a weekend in the WuYi mountains. WuYi Shan Nature Park is beautiful this season. It is still nice and warm, but the humidity has already started to reduce.What a delight to walk in the middle of these sumptuous mountains, between these famous tea gardens ... Matouyan, Niulankang, the mother tea plants of the Dahongpao ... What a change of scenery during the bamboo raft descent on the river with nine bends ...But above all, it's time to roast the Yancha. It begins with...

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An Unexpected Encounter

There is a tea that will always remind me of my arrival in China, and my first culture shock in a tea house. Left for China a few weeks before the rest of the family at the very beginning of our expatriation and with only one suitcase, I did not even have the place to add a gaiwan and some tea leaves. The first step to survive, the very evening of my arrival, was obviously to go into a small neighborhood tea shop to buy a cheap gaiwan, a gong dao bei (reserve pot) and a cup. , as well as the grail: one of the worst Wulong Da Hong Pao that I have ever drunk… But without speaking the...

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