China has a history of tea about 5,000 years, in which a series of characteristic tea culture and arts about tea plant cultivation and conservation, tea-leaf picking, processing and sampling, have come into being. Tea-leaves are produced mainly in the southern area to the Changjiang River for the mild climate and the fertile ground, such as Zhenjiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, etc. So the tea varieties like Longjing, Wulong, Pu'er, Tieguanyin, are renowned both at home and abroad. The film summarizes the cultivation history and distribution of tea in China as well as the traditional processing art, which will provide you some knowledge rarely known about tea.

One of the common traits shared by the Chinese multi-nationality cultures is the tea culture and, of all the fifty-six nationalities, each one has the custom of sampling tea. It's unimaginable that the Chinese people spend a day without tea, either in the mild and humid southern mountain area or on the frozen and snow-covered northern grassland. Gongfu tea, buttered tea and milk tea are all the favorite drinks of Chinese people. Furthermore, people indulge in elaborating on poems, essays, dances and dramas about tea. The songs and dances of tea-leaf picking in the film will bring you great delight and you will get much knowledge about the art of tea through watching the etiquette of sampling tea.

Duration: 60 minutes