speakers then borrowed their words for tea. The Chinese character for tea is 茶, originally written with an extra horizontal stroke as 荼 (pronounced tu),...

desired flavors are reached. This process produces tea known as hēichá (黑茶), literally "black tea", though the term is commonly translated to English...

(小沱茶; the first word meaning "small") which usually weighs 3g–5g. A larger piece around 357g, which may be a disc with a dimple, is called bǐngchá (饼茶,...

(安徽六安籃茶, Anhui Lu'an basket tea) Guangxi: Liu bao cha (廣西六堡茶, Guangxi Liubao tea, often sold as 松黑茶, loose dark tea) Hubei: Qing zhuan cha (湖北青砖茶, Hubei...

Shanghai Wenhua Chubanshe (Shanghai Cultural Publishers) 1991. 施海根，中國名茶圖譜、烏龍茶黑茶及壓製茶花茶特種茶卷 p2，上海文化出版社 2007 ISBN 7-80740-130-3 Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization...

original text is "國初四方供茶，以建寧、陽羨茶品為上，時猶仍宋製，所進者俱碾而揉之，為大小龍團。至洪武二十四年九月，上以重勞民力，罷造龍團，惟采茶芽以進." From the Classic of Tea: "飲有粗茶、散茶、末茶、餅茶者。" "matcha – Definition...

玄米茶 is an East Asian tea made from brown rice. 玄米茶 may refer to: Genmaicha, a Japanese green tea combined with roasted brown rice, sometimes also referred...

ISBN 9787563734054. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 1959年全国'十大名茶'评比会选出的中国十大名茶（西湖龙井、洞庭碧螺春、黄山毛峰、庐山云雾、六安瓜片、君山银针、信阳毛尖、武夷岩茶、安溪铁观音、祁门红茶）中，有六款[...]为绿茶。 [Of the ten teas selected...

tea is called dàmài-chá (大麦茶; 大麥茶) or mài-chá (麦茶; 麥茶), in which dàmài (大麦; 大麥) or mài (麦; 麥) means "barley" and chá (茶) means "tea". In Japan, barley...

(631‒647), when two types of tea bricks, jeoncha (전차; 磚茶) and dancha (단차; 團茶), were imported from the Tang Empire. In 765, a Buddhist monk is said to have...