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The
Cloud-and-Fog Tea:
It was a tribute to the royal court in the Song Dynasty about 900
years ago. It belongs to the Green Tea and tastes pure and sweet.
Green tea has the longest history and still ranks first in output
and variety today. People like its freshness and natural fragrance.
It has high contents of Vitamin C, which helps to oxidize and lower
cholesterol. The Cloud-and-Fog Tea is one of the famous green tea
in China. It growing in valleys amidst cloud and fog all year round,
hence the name. A new tea-plant must grow for five years on the mountain
before its leaves can be picked, the season of tea-picking depends
on local climate and in Lushan Mountain starts from the end of March
and lasts through October. It takes four pounds of fresh leaves to
produce one pound of parched tea. The best quality tea tribute to
the royal court must be picked in the early spring when new twigs
have just begun to grow and carry "one leaf and a bud".
To make one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of this high grade finished tea, 60,
000 tender leaves have to be plucked.
Porcelain Ware:
Jiangxi is the home of Chinese porcelain and Jingdezhen has been the
porcelain capital of China and of the world for almost 13 centuries.
Jingdezhen porcelain is the pearl in the treasure house of Chinese
art and culture. People began to produce ceramics as early as 1,800
years ago in this town. The location was ideal, near the necessary
fine kaolin clays and on a major waterway. Since the 14th century,
manufacturers have shipped blue and white porcelain to world markets.
Its thin, translucent quality and exotic motifs made it highly prized
throughout Europe and the colonies.
Jingdezhen porcelain has been formed its own four special features,
that is, White like jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, sound
like a chime. Using the same materials, the same artistic techniques,
in some cases, the same kilns, porcelain from Jingdezhen is prized
for its artistic qualities and function around the world.
Jingdezhen porcelain is specialized in different styles and
designs of porcelain. From plates and pottery, vases and lamps, to
highly ornate and intricate bowls, framed paintings, figures and figurines.
There are colorful famine-rose porcelain, the elegant blue and white
porcelain, the delicate and transparent rice pattern porcelain, the
exquisite egg-shell porcelain, the brilliant colored glaze porcelain
and the vivid sculpture porcelain. |
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| Spectacular Qutang,
elegant Wu and majestic Xiling - they are no illusion but truly
world wonders, even after the big dam is complete. Let images
in our gallery be your guidance when planning your next China
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