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Wu Yi Tea History

When you drink a cup of tea, you should understand all the magic process which is going on while you're just enjoying this fragrant drink. In each cup there's a small piece of history, so we'll just tell you a few more facts about tea. This information also can help you to make a choice and become a tea drinker, after you'll find out some of the following facts. So, we'll start our story about one of the most wonderful drinks nowadays, which helps people to find harmony with their inner world and just relax for a few minutes, stop this fast time which is sometimes too cruel to us. It's going on without even a small break and we don't have an ability to stop this process, the only thing we can make is try to put priorities and remember that there're a lot of things worth paying attention to except our everyday problems. So, concentrate on the magic abilities of this philosophic drink.

Wu long (also Wu-long, or ooLong) is literally 'black dragon' tea, but there is nothing in common with dragons. It was named after its discoverer Wu Liang. There's a legend about his discovery. One day he was picking out tea. He collected rather good load of it, but a river deer draw his attention. He stopped to slay the beast and when he got home he concentrate on preparing it and completely forget to dry the tea. So, by the time he remembered, it were some days after, he noticed that the tea had started to change its colour, he was really upset with this fact but nevertheless he didn't give up, as he didn't want to waste good tea, on picking up which, he had spent so much time. So, it's an existing fact that almost all genius discoveries were made by chance and this case isn't an exception. While he got through with firing the tea he wanted to try it in order to check and made himself a cup. It was a real sensation He found out that he had made one of the tastiest drinks he had ever tried in his life. New tea was mellow and aromatic, unlike anything he had tasted before. Then he began to make this tea for his neighbors, they really liked it and all of them wanted to know the secret of its preparing, and Wu Liang shared it with pleasure. Through Chinese Whispers it eventually came to be known as Wu-Long cha, or Black Dragon tea. So it is a small story about this charming drink.

May be it goes since that time, but nowadays it's considered to be and described as "flowery", "smooth", "spicy", "sweet and creamy", "subtle orchid tastes", "full tasting with a mellow aftertaste"... And all these names depend only on the firing process. So, you'll have different kinds if you will dry it for different period of time. It's rather simple. Wu-Long is grown in China, specifically, in the southern regions of China like Taiwan, Guangdong and Fujian. One of the most famous tea regions in Fujina is Anxi.

From this very moment you may drink the tea and imagine beautiful landscape where it is grown with care,feel this moment deeply and fully understand that each leaf in your cup has this magic strength that makes you feel fresh and renewed.

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