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Great Green Tea: Half from West Lake, Half from Thousand Island Lake

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 When people think of China’s finest green tea, they picture West Lake in Hangzhou—the villages of Longjing and Meijiawu, Emperor Qianlong’s legendary “Eighteen Imperial Tea Bushes,” and a cup of flat, jade-green leaves releasing delicate chestnut notes. And they’re not wrong. West Lake Longjing is indeed one of China’s most iconic teas. But few know that 150 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, amid the emerald waters of Thousand Island Lake, lies another chapter of tea history—one far older, equally profound, and unjustly overlooked. Here, during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), tribute tea known as Jiukeng Maojian was sent to the imperial court. Lu Yu, the Sage of Tea, recorded its origin in his Classic of Tea (Cha Jing). Centuries later, seeds from this very land would travel to Japan, Kenya, and beyond, shaping green tea across continents. Today, protected as a Class-I national water source, this region bans chemical pesticides entirely—yielding tea of unmatched purity and freshnes...
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happy tea grower

  For tea farmers, every spring is the harvest season.
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The pruned new tea is growing well

Many people do not understand, why should a good tea tree be pruned? 1. Pruning tea leaves in summer to remove apical dominance and accumulate nutrients for the development of axillary buds Right now, around the Dragon Boat Festival of Grain Rain, during this period, the growth of tea leaves is fast, and before they can accumulate enough nutrients, they are no longer the tea leaves of this time. Tea trees are pruned regularly every year because the tea leaves grow densely. Pruning the tea tree is to prevent the tea tree from growing up. For example, when we grow flowers, roses, etc., after flowering and pruning, we can let the axillary buds germinate, so that the branches will be full. The same is true for tea. The tea trees that have been planted for more than ten or twenty years are all so tall. This is because artificially pruned every summer in summer, every year, the tea will grow lush every year. This is also one of the reasons for the high yield and high quality of tea every yea...
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