Hadong brews Korean tea for the world
Secluded mountain region prepares for world tea exhibition An old folk song from Hadong County in South Gyeongsang Province evinces the importance of tea in Korean culture. It goes like…
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Innovations pour new momentum into tea industry of China’s Huangshan City
Huangshan City is the origin of several famous teas and has a long history of drinking tea. Nowadays, innovative tea-making skills and alternative ways of drinking tea grow popular among…
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New BBC HQ named The Tea Factory
The BBC has revealed the name of its future home in Birmingham. The broadcast centre in Digbeth is to be known as The Tea Factory, in a nod to its…
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Ann Arbor tea shop owner to publish ‘Tea for Dummies’ in March
An Ann Arbor tea shop owner is such an expert on the subject she literally wrote the book. Lisa McDonald, owner of TeaHaus and one of just a handful of European-trained tea…
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Tea culture in Azerbaijan, Turkey enters UNESCO list
The culture of tea practised in both Turkey and Azerbaijan was on Thursday added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, recognised as a symbol of “identity, hospitality and social interaction”.…
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Vietnam Tea product on the map
Vietnam has always been one of the major tea producing and exporting country, attracting a lot of importers from all over the world. Vietnamese tea products are diverse in type…
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Vietnam is considered to be one of the cradles of the world’s tea plants
By 2021, the planted area of the whole country had reached 130,000 hectar and the dried tea output 180,000 tons of which 130,000 tons was exported and the domestic consumption…
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Turkish tea miracle
Creative architectural solutions always attract tourists, and the Turkish tea industry can without any doubt be proud of the unique glass building in the shape of a Turkish tea glass.…
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Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū modernizes traditional raku tea bowls on his own terms
Japanese ceramic artist Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū of Raku Ware believes that the world we think of today is the product of our consciousness: what we want to believe is what we…
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Walking in the footsteps of China’s historic caravans of tea porters
Decades ago, heavy loads of tea were hauled by hand along Sichuan’s rugged trails. “I can still feel the pain,” one 89-year-old former porter says. Writer and National Geographic Society…
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Ceramic artist combines Chinese ceramic culture with Japanese tea culture (video)
The city of Jingdezhen is famous for its porcelain industry. It has been the world’s capital of porcelain for 2,000 years. Traditional production areas have now been upgraded into industrial…
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Iran Tourism: A cup of tea at Chalous’ Chai-Khoran Palace
The Chai-Khoran Palace was a temporary retreat for Pahlavi kings and was built almost 70 years ago, during Reza Shah Pahlavi’s reign. The Chai-Khoran Palace is approximately 4,000 square meters…
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Forest Tea House / Mix Architecture
The mountain is not high but elegant, the water is not deep but clear. Yanxi Lake is like the last paradise in Wuhan. The water island is densely covered with lush…
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Ancient tea-producing area in China recognized as agricultural heritage
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently recognized three sites in China as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. These three regions included an ancient tea-producing area in Anxi county in…
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19th Century tea set commissioned by Napoleon now on display at The Clark Art Institute
Inside a small room at The Clark Art Institute is the museum’s newest acquisition, a unique, hand-painted 19th century porcelain tea set. “This is an exquisite, very special set that was…
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Teemaa Teahouse—Tea-making Materials Used for Reinterpreting a Contemporary Space
The female duo Peng Luo and Xinyuan Sui, both hailing from China where they respectively received a tea education, founded Teemaa Teahouse in order to bring tea culture to Finland, a country known…
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A potted history of Vietnamese tea
An old Asian scholar once said: “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” And he was not wrong.…
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There is a new way to take your tea, says Douglas
The UK’s first Korean tea bar, or ‘hanok’ in Korean, is brought to you by Sooji Im, a former management consultant who found that overseeing $600m infrastructure projects was not…
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Teemaa Celebrates Tea Culture in Helsinki
Yatofu Creatives employs raw, honest materials to create an authentic teahouse and shop A new shrine to tea culture—and a counterpoint to Finland’s prolific coffee concepts—has been unveiled in downtown…
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Cau Dat Tea Museum
Built in 1929 by French, and located in Xuân Trường Town, Đà Lạt City of Lâm Đồng Province, 1.2 hectares, Cầu Đất Tea Department was the first place has a…
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