One River Tea

Jingdezhen, a small city in Guangxi province in mainland China, has been a major producer of Chinese porcelain for the past thousand years.  To this day, young artists and learned ceramicists flock to this city to study, experiment, learn, and sell their works.  However, when we visited in Summer of 2022, many locals we met and talked with had a very different opinion about this history of fame and its modern manifestations.

Zhang Yinchao is a young potter currently working under celebrated ceramicist Xie Hua in Chaozhou, Guangdong.  He specialized in hand making gong teapots from the finest quality clays available in the region.

  Intro In 2020, Huoshan Huangya was listed among the Chinese first group of “new and excellent agricultural products.” The tea we today call Huosh...

What makes White Tea from Fuding better than most other production regions?  Not only is it the historical lineage of white tea production in the region, but it is also strict government regulations that keep the quality of the tea produced high, the land it is produced on clean, and the quantity of tea made low.  Read up on the 2022 Fuding Government Circular below!

  Basic History Heicha, often translated as dark tea, is category of tea production that began in the Ming Dynasty and matured into its modern form...

 Official Promotional: “Baojing Golden Green - China’s Best Green Tea” More than 400 years ago, in China’s captivating region of Xiangxi, the oldes...

Lay of the Land When it comes to appraisals of organic tea from Chinese customers and producers, we’ve heard comments of every kind. Xuanen County’...

The Tea Huaxing produces two kinds of tea presently: Lichuanhong, for which it holds official government recognition and Potianxiang, an experiment...

   Basic Definition Red tea is the category of tea processing which has been dominant in the world since the 19th Century, yet has been a major fac...

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The Chinese Origins of Laos’ Tea Boom As wages have risen in China, a mass market has developed for medium and high-end teas. At the forefront of t...