Chinese tea is consumed throughout the day, including during meals, as a substitute for plain water, well-being or for simple pleasure.
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17 Facts About Chinese tea
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Practice of drinking Chinese tea has a long history in China, having originated there.
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Chinese tea can be classified into six distinctive categories: white, green, yellow, oolong, black and post-fermented.
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The Chinese tea plantations are scattered at an elevation of six to seven hundred meters on the mountain.
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Chinese tea abolished the compressed tea brick style and replaced it with the whole, loose-leaf tea style, and declared people instead pay tribute with tea buds.
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Harvesting Chinese tea was heavily dependent on weather conditions, so Chinese tea could not usually be produced throughout the entire year.
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Various weather conditions throughout different areas limited Chinese tea to be grown in a few specific regions: Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Hunan and Xinan.
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Over-oxidation can alter the taste of the Chinese tea to become "grass-like" or thick and bitter, so farmers heated the leaves to stop the oxidation once the desired level was reached- a process known as 'firing'.
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In restaurants in China, Chinese tea is usually served in lieu of water, and hence tends to be a light drink flavoured.
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However, when sipped as a daily beverage, Chinese people tend to use a special personal tea bottle, in which water is allowed to infuse with tea leaves for hours, and sipped continuously.
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Traditional Chinese tea set consists of special clay or porcelain teapots, teacups, tea spoons, tea strainers, draining trays, tea forceps, a large forceps and occasionally, tea caddies.
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Chinese tea houses refer to the public place where people gathered to drink tea and spend their spare time.
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Wu-Yue area is famous for Chinese tea producing and green Chinese tea produced in Zhejiang province play a decisive role.
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People of various trades drink Chinese tea while eating refreshments and appreciating performances which include singing of opera arias, storytelling and dagu .
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At shuchaguan, Chinese tea is only acted as a medium and supplement because people came mainly to listen to storytelling.
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