Photographs by Huiling Liang
Jiangbei (literally means River North, refers to the area north of the Yangtze River in eastern China) region’s teas are little known outside of China. This region is located at 32 degrees north latitude, which globally speaking, is quite far from most tea producing regions. It was not always a natural place to grow tea. In the 1960s, the Chinese government launched a large experiment to test cultivation of southern tea cultivars in River North regions. Rizhao c
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