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Cloud and Mist Tea
This is a traditional tea. Its was first know around in the 2nd century, when Buddhist monks cultivated teas around their temple. To the 5th century, tea cultivation expanded to odd pieces of land in the depths of the forest. In order to take care of those teas, the monks built themselves as many as 65 grass-roofed shelters afar. The making of this green tea remains manual today. The harvest starts from Grain Rain, a Chinese solar term around the end of Aril. The standard picking is one shoot with one or two young leaves.  1,098 meter in elevation, Tiantai Mountain, or Terrace to Sky, is the birthplace of Buddhist Tiantai School. Its dense forests of China fir, azalea, and bamboo provide a natural protection for tea, and its all-the-year-round dense fog gives this tea the name. The long winter in the mountain delays sprouting, while the delay gives a peculiar property in tea's strength.Tiantai Mountain also has close ties to Japanese green tea. In 805 AD, Saicho, a returned Japanese monk, brought with him the tea seeds from there and planted the first tea in Japan. Chinese green tea map Home | Contact | Green Tea |
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