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Time for a haircut? Spring rain heralds the new harvest.

By andrew, on March 26, 2021 in: Newsletter Archive

Newsletter Archive Mar. 26, 2021 Way out in the Pacific, a dragon just looked up from the waves and sent rain for the spring crops. That rain found its way to the tea crops, at least. In many of China’s tea gardens this past weekend, when a warm day of sunlight finally broke through on… // MORE

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Spring is waking up. Can you hear it?

By andrew, on March 12, 2021 in: Newsletter Archive

Newsletter Archive Mar. 12, 2021 On a misty morning last week, tea makers, tea scholars and officials gathered in Wuyishan National Park to remind the tea bushes there that it is time to wake up. The ritual, han shan, literally “calling the mountain” reached its apex when everyone in the grove called out, “Tea, please… // MORE

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