Tea Arts 茶藝

French: thé (pron. TAY) Spanish: té (pron. TAY) Italian: tè (pron. TAY) Portugese: chá (pron. SHA) Romania: ceai, (pron. CHAI?) German: Tee (pron. TAY) Dutch: thee (pron. TAY) Swedish, Danish Norwegian: te (pron. TAY) Polish: herbataCzech, Serb, Croatian, Bosnian: Cay ("C" with a tiny v on top, and ay) (pron. chai) Russian: Yau ("Y" with a t in it, and AU) (pron. CHAI) Hungarian: tea (pron. TEYA) Finnish: tee. (pron. TAY) Turkish: çay (pron. CHAI) Indonisia, Malay: teh, (pron. TAY) Esperanto: teo (pron. TAYO ) Greek: tsa'i (pron. chai?) Arabic: shaye.Hebrew: teh (pron. TAY ) Yiddish: tay (pron. TAY) Japanese: o cha (pron. O CHA) Swahili: chai.

Name Place of Origin (Province of Origin) Long Jing Dragon Well Xi Hu (Zhe Jiang) Bi Luo Chun Spring Snail Tai Hu (Jiang Su) Tie Guan Yin Iron Goddess An Xi (Fu Jian) Mao Feng Fur Peak Huang Shan (An Hui) Yin Jan Silver Needle Jun Shan (Hu Nan) Qi Men Hung Qi Men Red Qi Men (An Hui) Da Hung Pao Big Red Robe Wu Yi Shan (Fu Jian) Gua Pien Mellon Seed Liu An (An Hui) Bai Hao Yin Jan White Fur Silver Needle Fu Ding (Fu Jian) Puer Puer Si Mao (Yun Nan) Wu Lung Oolong Nan Tou (Taiwan) Yun Wu Cloud & Fog Lu Shan (Jiang Xi) Mao Jian Fur Tip Sin Yang (Hu Nan) Gan Lu Sweet Dew Ming Ding (Si Chuan) Mao Jian Fur Tip Du Yun (Gui Zhou) Muo Li Hua Jasmine Su Zhou (Jiang Su) Yu Lu Jade Dew En Si (Hu Bei) Zhu Cha Pearl Tea Ping Shui (Zhe Jiang) Hou Kui Monkey King Tai Ping (An Hui)

Puer: pronounced  (pronounced: poo-er) I love drinking it but I have avoided writing about the tea called Puer Tea, there is so much misinformation…There is so much confusion about defining and even spelling of it in English, as well as Chinese... Many people are now calling a “puer tea” any post fermented tea that comes not only from Puer city but all of Yunnan as well. I have had to revise this simple little article(now larger) because much of my info/resources were writing --pu'er pu-er and pu er Pu'Er and PuEr puer... so I decide to keep with the translating logic we have agreed on which is tries to make it readable in REAL English, in this case it was easy writing an I say majority rules (or at least you can keep more people happy) "puer puer pu'er pu er pu-er pu-erh puer puEr ,,,,,,enough I think you get the point.. this spelling frenzy causes problems for non-Chinese readers when doing searchers for information about @@PUER TEA@@, and I am also talking about in...

Circa 2700 B.C. Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovers tea Circa 725 B.C. T’ang Dynasty: Ch’a, tea in Chinese, becomes part of daily life 805 A.D. Dengo Daishi, Buddhist patron saint of Japanese Tea, introduces tea growing in Japan 1191 After centuries of neglect, the cultivation of tea in Japan is revived by the Buddhist Abbot Yesai, who subsequently published the first Japanese tea book. 1500 Ming Dynasty: in imitation of spouted wine earthenware, the first teapots were made at Yi-Xang, near Shanghai famous for its clays. Black, green and oolong tea become prevalent. 1610 Tea reaches Europe for the first time, carried by the Dutch from a trading station in Bantam, Java. They buy tea from Chinese merchants, who speak the Amoy dialect and therefore refer to the product as "Tea". 1623 The first annual public Japanese tea ritual, known as the "Tea Journey" is held. 1657 Garway’s Coffee house in London holds the first public sale of tea. Garway’s starts to advertise the ...