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Article: Tea from Fujian and Taiwan.
- Article from:
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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In the November issue, Jane Pettigrew reported on Michael Adams' travels in the northeastern corner of China. This article focuses on what he discovered in the Fujian Province and Taiwan.
Taiwan started tea production 140 years ago when planters from China's Fujian Province moved from the mainland to the island of Formosa, as it was then called. A legend tells of how Lin Fengshi returned from a government examination at Wuyi in China with 36 oolong sprigs and planted them on the fertile slopes of Dung Ding mountain in the center of the island. The climate was perfect and the soil rich and well-drained, and so the plants thrived. Soon the area developed into a ...