Seven things to open the door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea; seven great things in life: music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, and tea;
Tea is essential for both daily life and the spiritual world.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a young talent who came from a tea-making family but was wiped out.
He was proficient in tea ceremony, successfully cultivated pure Guanyin tea, invented the method of making Shuanghou Guanyin tea, and pushed the tea making technology to its peak.
He broke the foreigners' monopoly on tea exports, used his intelligence to challenge powerful foreign merchants, severely punished foreign merchants and foreign firms, drove Indian tea that had impacted the Chinese tea industry out of the country, and exported tea to the American market, becoming the first person to compete with foreign firms.
Reader comments
Lots of tea knowledge points
The battle of wits and courage with the comprador foreigners is close to real life and very readable.
Lots of tea knowledge points
The battle of wits and courage with the comprador foreigners is close to real life and very readable.