JohnHou's Chinese Tea Life

This tea was also bought directly from local farmer of YiWu. Their village is called GaoShanCun. GaoShan means high mountain. These tree are around 100 years. These are still not called GuShu or old tree. In my humble opinion, GuShu should be more than 300 years at least. From 100 years to 300 years, we call that DaShu which means Big Tree. From 70 years to 100 years, we call that ShengTai which means Organic Tree. Till 70 year, we call that XiaoShu which means small tree or shrub. This tea was definitely picked up in the spring of 2017. Now is November and near the end of 2017. Thanks to the good storage condition, it is very dry. The flavor is very near wood or dry wood and mixed with aroma like honey or flower. In Chinese, I can directly call this flavor HuaMi Xiang which means flower and honey flavor. Maybe the wood flavor is not because of storage condition or any other reason. Just because it was stored dryly. So the stem has this smell. At the same time, I ...

Today, let's know more about what on earth the 6 big puerh tea mountains are or 14 big tea mountains as I said in the title. Want to know more tea mountains of around more than 100? Okay, let's talk that one by one. Usually, photo or picture is easier to understand. Here it is the 1st one: (Pic source: 中国普洱茶网 ) Firstly, we should know a river called LanCang River(澜沧江).  Never heard about this river?  Let LanCang River have a self introduction.  LanCang River:  "👴Hello, every one. I am long of 4909 km from Tibet in China to  Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam and run into South China Sea. In China, they call me LanCang River, but in Southeast Asia, they call me Mekong River. "  Pic source:互动百科. " Have no idea about Mekong River?  Why don't google ' BBC Two - The Mekong River with Sue Perkins ' 😡 Remember, I am the 7th  longest in world, the 3rd longest in Asia, the 1st longest in Southeast Asia. 🌊 Bye bye😁" Let...

Maybe some people don't agree with me. "Are there should be 5 tea areas instead of  just 3?  Such as YiWu, MengHai, SiMao,LinCang and BaoShan?" "No,no, there should be 6 big tea areas. DaLi should be included" Okay. Let me just talk about the big 3 tea areas along the LanCang river baisn. It is located in the south of North Tropic. This unique region belongs to tropical and subtropical climate. It is so special and very suitable for growth of tea trees. The tea quality is among the best in whole Yunnan province. The big 3 tea areas. Source: 慢时光_Tina ①　BaNa tea area.     According to the recorded history, farmers started to plant tea trees from Eastern Han Dynasty （AD 25 year-220 year）. Tea as a agricultural industry began to rise up from Tang and Song Dynasty（AD 618 year-907 year, 960-1279 year）,  and reached the peak during Ming and Qing Dynasty (AD 1368 year-1644 year-1912 year).  Cha Ma Gu Dao which means tea and horse tra...

Shrub plantation of puerh tea Shape of shrub The front side of shrub's leaf. Compared to arbor leaf it is narrower on width and shorter on length and thinner on thickness. Selected shrub's leaf to make puerh tea. The back side of the leaf. The advantage is that the bud is fat and easier to be picked up. Also can be harvested more from same size of plantation, so the economy side is better. But not suitable to be made into traditional puerh tea. Because of the monotonous taste and poor tea water. The fragrant is thinner and the levels of the taste is not so obvious. Usually, arbor tree needs good environment especially non-polluted soil, clean water and atmosphere.  Then the arbor can grow to large tree and high quality large leaf. These trees have tall and sturdy trunk. Classical arbor tree.  Branches of arbor tree. "Hi. Shrub little brother. Let's have a comparison. "😁 Arbor tree said.  "Oh. My God. ...

After received this tea from supplier with very simple plastic bag, I didn't anticipate so much. So I left it in my storage box for a long while. Because it is green tea and can't be kept so long like puerh tea which is the longer the better, so I decided to have a drink this afternoon. * Some foreign tea lovers say that this is a classical package from Chinese domestic tea seller. 😅 I am also a Chinese domestic seller supplying every kind of Chinese tea to world wide. I use paper bag with aluminum film inside to keep the tea from humidity. 😎 So, when I resell this tea, I will repackage it like below. P.S Please ignore the words on the right bag. It is just for reference. Okay. Let's back to the topic of this time. The tea leaf looks still fresh. And the aroma is faint. I think the reason of the original plastic bag. It can't seal so well. I rinse the tea leaf one time in my glass gaiwan. There is still not so high aroma of this green tea. I was a...