Tagged: fuding
The Goddess's Tea Tree Is Still Standing
A healing goddess from the era of Emperor Yao, a cave on Taimu Mountain, and a tree tracked since 1957. As of 2025 a UN heritage designation is built around it.
In Two Studies, Heating Water Is a Top Carbon Stage for White Tea
Two cradle-to-grave studies of white tea, in Tamil Nadu and Fuding, find the drinker's water heating the largest emissions stage in one and one of two hotspots, beside processing, in the other.
Fuding's Tea Gardens Cover Under a Fifth of the Land
The UN's FAO recognized Fuding's tea country as a global agricultural heritage site, and its numbers show the tea gardens cover under a fifth of the land, beside more than 120 other agricultural species.
A Lab Can Sort Real Fuding From a Lookalike. No Shop Does.
Near-infrared light told Fuding-grown bai mudan from the rest of Fujian's 97.96 percent of the time in a 2023 study. What reaches the shelf instead is a QR code, which checks the seller's record rather than the leaf.
One Year Tea, Three Years Medicine, Seven Years Treasure
A saying offered as old wisdom about aged white tea, set against what laboratory studies of stored white tea measured.
Fuding and Zhenghe
White tea's two home counties in Fujian, how their terroir, cultivars, and withering traditions differ, and what an origin does and does not tell a buyer.
The History of White Tea
The white tea class, the withered-and-dried leaf, is a Qing-dynasty Fujian invention and not the Song tea that shares its name: silver needle from about 1796, the Da Bai cultivars and the export century.
What Is White Tea
White tea is the least-processed tea class: the bud and leaf of Camellia sinensis, withered and dried, no pan-fire and no rolling. What that names, the four products, and the standard behind it.