Although there are only eight kinds lof tea, there are more than a hundred Gifferent varieties and they range from the very commonest Kinds, Jeosting a. few cenis a pound, to the [choicest blends which none but the very rich can afford to buy.
For instance there are twelve alf. ferent kinds of Lung Ching, some of which are named from the places Where they are grown such as Hang~ chow Lung Ching and Hsihu Hung. Ching, while others get their names. from certain qualities they may possess oF from the season during which they were gathered. Examples the latter. have already been quoted, hamely, Chingming before the Ming Festival and YUchion before the The second kind, Maochien, Fur Tips, has fourteen varieties, the majority of which come from the dis-fHiet of Lu An in Anhwei.
'The third kind of which there are' twelve varieties ts the Chu Lancha jor Chioranthus tea while of Mao Listsun, or Jasmine tea there are) over thirty varieties, "The fifth kind Is known as medicinal tea of which there are only nine Varieties, some of which are _considered good for driving away taches, while others are said to ald the digestion and are taken after (heavy meal.
"The sixth kind Is composed of various varieties of red tea and there Is even Lung Ching Hungeha, or Lung Ching red tea, which of course comes from the Dragon Well district Hangchow, so renowned for its green teas.
The seventh is the famous Pu Erh-icho or brick tea, which comes from Yunnan and other parts of the counry, and fs sent to Flussia as well as to Mongolia and Tibet.
The eighth and last kind fs tea dust, which has a big sale in Peiping and Which Is much. appreciated by the poorer classes because of its cheap~ ess.
Tea Is, in fact, one of the most [democratic things in the national life of the Chinese and brings satistaction and comfort not only to the favoured ones, but also to the workers in the elds and to the humblest {traveller in the East, no matter where he may be.
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