Tea Culture

When Robert Fortune first began working as a gardener at the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, his passion for botany and tea was born. This job left him with an lifelong addiction to these two pursuits...

England's first tea drinking queen, Catherine of Braganza was an Portuguese princess who came to England with Charles II. She became his wife in 1662 and introduced this new fashionable drink which th...

What is The Chinese Art of Tea?More than three millennia ago in ancient China, tea evolved from a medicinal drink or vegetable into its own unique beverage.Lu Yu, a Scholar from the Tang Dynasty wrote...

"In the fifteenth century," says Okakura Kakuzo（冈仓天心）, “Japan ennobled tea into a religion of estheticism—teaism".The Japanese had been drinking tea for centuries before the Heinan period(平安時代,794-115...