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	<title>Chinese Tea Files &#187; Sichuan</title>
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		<title>Long-Mouth Kettle acrobatics (video)</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2011/01/15/long-mouth-kettle-acrobatics-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As indicated by its name, a “Long-Mouth Kettle” (长流壶)is a copper pot with a long opening. When you fill it with boiling water and than pour the water into a glass or gaiwan (盖碗), by the time the water touches the tea leaves it has been cooled down to just the right temperature. The handling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures of tea industry and trade in Ya&#8217;an around 1940</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: 孙明经的照片 Sun Mingjing (孙明经) was a Chinese photography and documentary-film pioneer. In the late nineteen-thirties he participated to scientific expeditions in parts of China’s western territories, where he pictured natural sceneries and human activities. By doing so, he could not but capture scenes of the tea trade, which at the time was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea terroirs: Mount Mengding, home of Mengding Ganlu and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Mount Mengding (蒙顶山) in central Sichuan (四川) province, tea has been cultivated since the Western Han (西汉) period (202 BC-9 AD). This makes it one of the first place, where tea plants were actively selected, planted and looked after. According to tradition, it all started with a medicinal herbs grower called Wu Lizhen (吴理真), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea hit by hard weather</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2010/03/23/tea-hit-by-hard-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tea News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea doesn’t get spared. Whenever a calamity hits, the world of tea is also affected by it. Due to constant short precipitations and relative high temperatures since autumn 2009, big parts of southwestern China are suffering from a serious drought. In parts of Yunnan (云南), Guizhou (贵州) and Sichuan (四川), all big tea producing provinces, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring tea from Mingshan County reaches record prices</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2010/03/14/spring-tea-from-mingshan-county-reaches-record-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A period of frost in February has both decreased the quantity; but also increased the quality of the tea leaves harvested this spring in Mingshan County (名山县), Sichuan province (四川省). This has led to new record prices, best quality tea being negotiated on local markets at 80 Yuan or higher the kilogram. Situated near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tea industry meets in the city of the hibiscus</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2009/06/06/the-tea-industry-meets-in-the-city-of-the-hibiscus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year throughout China an innumerable number of tea fairs, exhibitions, trade shows, etc are organised. Every tea producing region has its own. Big cities have theirs as well. Organised on provincial or more regional levels, all have more or less the same goals: expose the local teas to a broad audience; help local tea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ancient Tea Horse Road</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2009/02/08/tea-horse-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trade routes are a fascinating subject. They show the strength and appeal of some goods. When taking a closer look at them you also see that it is not only about commerce; but also about ideas, religions, customs, languages, etc. travelling next to commercial goods. The Silk Road is probably the most famous of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The state of Sichuan&#8217;s tea industry</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2008/12/16/the-state-of-sichuans-tea-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of Sichuan (四川) province goes back to the time it was called Shu (蜀). It always had a very distinct and strong identity within the realm of Chinese culture. To some extent Sichuan is also a smaller image of China itself: it is very populous; it is big (485 000 square kilometres); it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An old industry</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2008/12/14/an-old-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since when people have been drinking tea is hard to say. It is for sure a very long time ago since the first person let a tea leave drop by accident in a cup of hot water and enjoyed the result. Legend has it that it was Shennong (神农); but of course he is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-lasting aftershocks</title>
		<link>http://www.chineseteafiles.com/2008/07/24/long-lasting-aftershocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the southwestern province of Sichuan was hit by that big earthquake in May, the immediate urgency was to save lives. Right after that the whole country&#8217;s effort was to bring people to safety and give them a shelter. It is now time to evaluate all the damages caused by that natural disaster. The most [...]]]></description>
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