Tagged: history

The Oldest Tea Ever Found Was an All-Bud Pluck

Tea recovered from the 2,100-year-old tomb of Emperor Jing of Han consists almost entirely of buds, the same plant part modern silver needle is graded on, but the record contains no processing method and no tradition connecting the two.

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, the export century, and the recent aged-white revival.