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Tea
Story/ Fei Liu

DANCING TEA

There are many different kinds of green tea in China: green tea, it is located at Mountain Guzhu, Changxing county,
fried, roasted, steamed, sun dried, etc. Because these Zhejiang province. Since the place is close to Taihu lake, it has nice
methods are not the same, the quality of the final tea is humidity, good amount of rain and enriched soil. Because the tea
also different. Some people say Queshe has the freshest bud shows purple color, and the leaves curl together like the bam-
bud, in fact the freshness of the bud is divided into types: boo shoots, looking from the bottom, the leaves looks like an or-
Zisun, Qiya, Queshe; these types of green tea not only chid. When brewing, these tea leaves become alive, seems like
need abundant natural environments, they are also very they dance in the glass. Each year around April 5th, the farmers
challenging for the artisans to roast. only pick one single bud and one leave as standard.
Among them, the legendary Zisun tea has its own As the opening of the Classic of Tea, written by Luyu, says
story to tell. Why it was named the best quality tribute “the tea leaves need to live in the wild and also having a forest to
tea in the mankind history? We are very fortunate to see cover it would be nice. It also says that purple buds are better than
its glory since it got put back into production in 1978 after the green ones, also the one shooting from the root is better than
it was rediscovered. Zisun tea is a type of half roasted a bud growing on top of the tree, curled leaves are better than

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