Li Xingchang repeatedly stirred leaves in an iron pan at a temperature of several hundred degrees day after day for years. A decade later, Li's mother, Kuang Zhiying, who taught him all about tea, finally smiled after sipping from a cup that Li had made.
At a garden located halfway up Jingmai Mountain in Lancang Lahu autonomous county, Pu'er city, Yunnan province — an area that boasts the biggest ancient tea tree plantations in China — Su Guowen grabs a handful of drying tea from the ground, smells it and knows immediately that it is not ready.
Sitting cozily around a charcoal stove, upon which boils a pot of tea, Sui Xin and two of her friends spend a whole afternoon roasting nuts and fruits while chatting and relaxing.
HEFEI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- In a tea plantation in Qimen County, East China's Anhui province, Maksim Ruban scrutinizes the collected fresh tea leaves as local farmers usher in their annual tea-picking season.
As the advent of spring heralds the ideal time for harvesting fresh tea leaves, locals in Lancang Lahu autonomous county of Yunnan province celebrated the beginning of the tea-picking season with a spirited ceremony held at Jingmai Mountain.
Nowadays, the tea plantation area of Jiaoyao village has expanded to 251 hectares. Almost every family in the village makes a living from tea, and 45 villagers have set up several tea processing plants and cooperatives.
The National Museum of China has toured Chinese Culinary Legacies, an exhibition on the food culture in ancient China, to Ningbo Museum in Zhejiang province. The exhibition, running through April 2, celebrates the scope and depth of Chinese culinary culture and people's creativity to make it a national brand.
About 800 meters above sea level and next to the picturesque Taiping Lake, Houkeng village in Huangshan, a region in the south of Anhui province, seems to be blessed by nature and an ideal place to create an aromatic brew in typical Chinese style.
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