Green Teas

Huiming Tea, From Tang Times

It is said that tea was drunk as early as the Tang dynasty, but that it only became popular in the Qing dynasty. In the twentieth century it gained international repute by winning a first-grade certificate at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. The plant is a broad leafed strain with many small buds, which can still be seen after it is processed. The beverage has a mellow taste and long-lasting flower flavor.

Huiming Temple, which gives this tea its names, stands halfway up a peak called Mt. Chimu in southern Zhejiang province. The tea grows on slope around it, which are generally within the level of almost perpetual mist and cloud.

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