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Green Tea function
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Green Tea maybe used for the following health conditions:
High Cholesterol: Scientists have determined that green tea lowers cholesterol and raises the “Good” (HDL) cholesterol. Studies have shown that people who drink green tea are more likely to have lower total cholesterol than whose who did not.
Tea and Health
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"No Emperor Wei Di's drug pills are needed if one drinks seven cups of Lu Tong's tea".
Tea was used as a drug when it first entered human life. It is generally considered that tea had been used as a drug before the Qin and Han Dynasty.
How to Select Tea
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There are four basic steps to selecting quality tea.
1. Observe. Good or fresh tea has a green luster in a tight shape, but poor tea is loose and dull. The leaves should be dry enough to make a rustling noise in the palm.
The "Ten Famous Chinese Teas"
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There are a myriad of Chinese tea varieties and a human brain can only remember so much information. This is where a list of the "best", the "rarest" or, in this case, the "most famous" comes in handy. It is not clear when the first list of the "Ten Famous Chinese Teas" was compiled; but it seems to be a product of modern rationalism and its urge for classification.
Autumn Tie Guanyin
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If spring tea (春茶) is usually considered the best of the four harvests allowed by a tea plant in a year, autumn tea is not bad either. Tea being very climate dependant, the character of the tea produced from each harvest is different. Not only does the weather during the growth of the leaves play its role, the conditions during the processing of the picked leaves also have an impact on the final result. More than a question of quality, the differences between harvests is rather one of taste and preferences.
The immortal's tender leaves live very long
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Being mentioned in Lu Yu (陆羽)'s Classic of Tea (茶经) is pretty much the best credential for tradition and seniority a tea production area or tea variety can get. Yuyao (余姚) has the honour of being mentioned three times.
The story of Tie Guanyin, the "Iron Boddhisatva"
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One night, during the first half of the Qing (清) dynasty (1644-1911), a tea farmer had an auspicious dream. He dreamt of a particularly luxuriant and fragrant tea plant. Suddenly awakened by a barking dog, the farmer still remembered where the tea bush was growing in his dream. When daylight came, he decided to look for that place. Surprisingly enough, the tea plant was there in the crack of a rock next to a mountain stream, exactly as he had dreamt. He took the plant with him, replanted it in an iron vessel and cultivated it with great care.
White tea, a clarification
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White tea (白茶) is one of the six tea types. As for all tea types, it is the result of a set of specific processing techniques. In other words, it is the human handicraft, which determines, whether your tea will be white or green, etc. The peculiarity of the techniques for manufacturing white tea is, that young tea buds are treated in such a way, that they are only slightly oxidised. These procedures are a specialty of Fujian (福建) province, where the famous Baihao Yinzhen (白毫银针) tea variery is produced. When “white tea” is mentioned without further precision, this is what is meant most of the time.
Tea types (or colours)
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Depending on how they are processed, the same tea leaves can develop very different tastes and aspects. It is the different processing techniques that result in the various tea types. These tea processing techniques make all use of one of tea's particularity: the fact that, when left untouched, the picked tea leaves will oxidise.
Springtime is tea time
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In China, spring starts with the Chinese New Year, which the Chinese call Spring Festival (春节). It marks the beginning of spring according to the Chinese lunar calendar. For the tea industry spring means the first harvest of the year. Situated in subtropical regions, most of the Chinese tea producing areas can have up to three harvests a year: the spring harvest, the summer harvest and the autumn harvest.
