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  2. Etymology of tea - Wikipedia

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    Examples are la (meaning tea purchased elsewhere) and miiem (wild tea gathered in the hills) from the Wa people of northeast Burma and southwest Yunnan, letpet in Burmese and meng in Lamet meaning "fermented tea leaves", tshuaj yej in Hmong language as well as miang in Thai ("fermented tea"). These languages belong to the Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto ...

  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Tea/Translate Name - Wikipedia

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    (English followed by Chinese) Classification分類: The four classifications of tea according to fermentation再把這四大分類細分: non-fermented tea :不發酵茶,即綠茶: post–fermented後發酵茶 即普洱茶,即黑茶: partially fermented tea 部分發酵茶,半發酵茶,即烏龍茶 completely fermented tea全發酵茶,即紅茶 : According to the degree of ...

  4. Chinese tea culture - Wikipedia

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    [45] The Chinese tea ceremony grew in popularity in the Tang dynasty, reaching its peak in the Song dynasty. [45] Gongfu cha, meaning "making tea with skill", is the most popular method of tea ceremony in China. It makes use of small teapots or vessels holding about 100–150 ml (4 or 5 fl.oz.), the size being thought to enhance the aesthetics ...

  5. East Asian tea ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Tea ceremony is a ritualized practice of making and serving tea (茶 cha) in East Asia practiced in the Sinosphere. [1] The original term from China (Chinese: 茶道 or 茶禮 or 茶艺), literally translated as either "way of tea", [2] "etiquette for tea or tea rite", [3] or "art of tea" [4] among the languages in the Sinosphere, is a cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and ...

  6. Tea - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese word for tea itself was likely ultimately derived from the non-Sinitic languages of the botanical homeland of the tea plant in southwest China (or Burma), possibly from an archaic Austro-Asiatic root word *la, meaning "leaf".

  7. Tieguanyin - Wikipedia

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    The processing of Tieguanyin tea is complex and requires expertise. Even if the tea leaf is of high raw quality and is plucked at the ideal time, if it is not processed correctly, its true character will not be shown. This is why the method of processing Tieguanyin tea was kept a secret. plucking tea leaves (Chinese: 採青; pinyin: cǎi qīng)

  8. List of English words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    In most European languages, where the word resembles te, tea generally originated in the Amoy port. The other common word for tea worldwide, usually in places where tea generally came via the Silk Road, derives from the Mandarin pronunciation with the same Old Chinese etymology. Tofu: Sino-Japanese 豆腐: tōfu: cf. Mandarin dòufu: Tong ...

  9. Chinese tea - Wikipedia

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    Chinese tea houses refer to the public place where people gathered to drink tea and spend their spare time. Chinese tea houses have a long history. It first took shape during the Tang dynasty Kaiyuan era (713–714) [14] and became common during the Song dynasty. From the Ming and Qing dynasties, tea house culture became integral to regional ...