Category Archives: Tea Legend

Bai Mu Dan – Tea and Legends

A world-famous white tea, sweet and delicate, with a fascinating and perhaps little-known legend to [...]

Puer – Tea and Legends

According to some, tea merchants of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) began to package tea [...]

Genmaicha – Tea and Legends

One day a samurai, in the fifteenth century, while studying a plan of attack with [...]

Otsukimi and the myth of Kaguya-hime: The Full Autumn Moon

The legend tells of an old bamboo cutter who came across a shining bamboo stalk [...]

Milky Wu Long Tea

This legend tells of a very special Wu Long tea (Milky Wulong), which originates in [...]

Bi Luo Chun – Tea and Legends

A long time ago, there was a beautiful, kind and hardworking girl who lived on [...]

Oolong tea: black dragons and other legends

Why is oolong tea so called? What are the legends that cloak its origins? We [...]

Tie Guan Yin – Tea and Legends

Once upon a time, there was a very devout Buddhist farmer. One day he found [...]

Silver Needle – Tea and Legends

A long time ago, He Zheng Village went through a long period of drought and [...]

Long Jing – Tea and Legends

A long, long time ago in China there was a very long period of drought. [...]