To learn Chinese Culture and Language through the Net

  1. http://mindcity.sina.com/index.html
  2. This web sites introduce twelve horoscopes in China. If you want to be familiar with horoscopes and if you want to know the fate of your horoscope, go try to look up this web site. You will find it interesting.

  3. http://dailynews2.com/index.html
  4. This web sites including many different kinds of newspapers and today's newest news. These newspapers contain news from the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. If you want to know what happened in the world, go to this site.

  5. http://www.seester.com/china/chinaindx.html
  6. This web site is guide, which travel to China. It has introduced a lot of famous places in China, such as Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Beijing, and Tiananmen Square etc. You can look up this web site to familiar with China before going to trip.

  7. http://www.china-contact.com/e.html

http://www.china-contact.com/www/culture/tea.html

China is known as the home town of tea. People throughout the country drink tea daily. Because of the geographic location and climate, different places grow various kinds of tea. In general, there are five kinds of tea classified according to different technique involved in the making of tea. They are Longjin of Hangzhou, Wulong of Fujian, Jasmine tea, Black tea and compressed tea. The most conspicuous content in China's tea culture is the popular phrase---Ke Lai jin Cha--when a guest arrives, a cup of tea will be brewed for him." In the past dynasties, people not only formed a special way of tea-drinking, but also developed an art form called tea-drinking. This art form comprises of many aspects. The most noticeable ones are the making of tea, the way of brewing, the drinking utensils such as tea pot.

Question:

  1. How did tea come to be?
  2. Is tea's origin has anything to do with any ancient dynasty?
  3. What are some qualities about the tea?
  4. Why tea is relating to Chinese society?
  5. Where is tea mostly pick from?