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"...Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world." ~T'ien Yiheng

"...Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.: ~Catherine Douzel

"...Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company." ~Author Unknown

"...I always fear that creation will expire before teatime." ~Sydney Smith

"...Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary." ~Chinese Proverb

"...There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea." ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

"...Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea." ~Author Unknown

"...If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you." ~Gladstone, 1865

Wu-Long Tea

History of Wu Long Tea

Wu long (also Wu-long, or ooLong) is literally 'black dragon' tea, but they say the name originally had nothing to do with dragons; rather, it was named after its discoverer Wu Liang.

Wu Liang was out picking tea one day. After collecting a good load his eye was caught by a river deer. He stopped to slay the beast and when he got home he got distracted by the preparation of it, quite forgetting to dry out his precious tea.

By the time he remembered about it a day or so later, the tea had started to change colour - he was worried that it might have gone bad, but he didn't want to let good tea go to waste so he finished preparing it anyway.

When he got through with firing the tea he made himself a cup and found that he had stumbled on a taste sensation! His surprising new tea was mellow and aromatic, unlike anything he had tasted before.

Once he made the tea for his neighbours they all want to know how to make it, and he was happy to share the technique; before long Wu-Liang's tea was known throughout the province. Through Chinese Whispers it eventually came to be known as Wu-Long cha, or Black Dragon tea.