Sara Naumann, the About.com guide to China Travel recently shared some very interesting new tea articles with me. They are based on a recent tea tour she took in Yunnan, China, an area that is home to pu-erh tea and is generally considered to be origin of tea production.
The first article is a documentation of the Bai Tea Ceremony. The Bai are an ethnic minority in China, and are the main producers of mao cha, the leaf material used to make pu-erh. Tea is a major part of their lives, and is considered to have strong spiritual significance.
The second article is a photo-documentation of a tea tour on a pu-erh plantation. It covers pu-erh processing and plucking, as well as other components of the tour, like a meal of tea foods and a pu-erh tea ceremony.
In related news, I'm currently in Tokyo researching Japanese tea culture, and will be spending the next year in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Kyoto, rural Japan, and Fujian, China. Expect to see similar slideshows based on my tea research and travels soon!
Photo (c) Lindsey Goodwin
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