Tea
茶 ...
普洱茶 [pǔěr chá] ...
[pǔěr chá] (普洱茶), known as black tea in Chinese (not the black English tea,
which I think is known as red tea in Chinese), is another member of the
Ten famous Tea (十大名茶) ...
According to the story, Zhu Ge Liang (诸葛亮) from the Three Kingdoms period (三国时期),
pursuaded the Yunnan (云南) people to plant tea to improve their livelihoods.
The tea is very popular in Cantonese dim sum (粤式点心) restaurants,
[pǔěr chá] (普洱茶) and seems recently, has had a spell of popularity outside of China
due to Victoria Beckham (维多利亚贝克汉姆) referring to it as
“the miracle skinny tea“ (奇迹瘦身茶)...
茶砖 [chá zhuān] ...
Literally Tea bricks or [chá zhuān] (茶砖), are blocks of
whole or finely ground green tea, black tea, or post-fermented tea leaves
that have been packed in molds and then which are pressed into block form.
Not so common today, but I like to keep a few of these at home ...
香片 [xiāng piàn] ...
But it is not that tea called 香片 [xiāng piàn] which is my favorite anyway,
it is the tea cup which I use everyday at work ...
As I understand, it is made from Yixing clay (宜兴),
is a type of clay from the region near the city of
Yixing in Jiangsu province (江苏), China ...
