Fun Facts

The world get its tea bible: The world's first tea bible was written 1,200 years ago by Lu Yu, the Chinese poet and scholar. Titled Cha Ching, or The CLassic of Tea, the work covers the entire world of tea as it existed in the 8th century. Lu Yu discussed tea origins, the tools of cultivation, growing methods, tea brewing and cooking, and the entire history and ceremony of tea. It took Lu Yu 20 years to pen The Classic of Tea, and to this day, his masterpiece makes for both a fascinating history and one of the earliest appreciations of the glories of the tea.
Black Dragon: The Legend Begins: Oolong tea, or otherwise known as Black Dragon tea, has a special place in Chinese lore, as numerous legends lay claim to its origin. a popular one tells how the owner of a tea estate got so scared by black snake slithering through his drying field, that he ran away. Several days later, the owner returned to the field and found that the tea leaves, having been basking in the sun, had all turned a rich dark color. After brewing the leaves, he took a sip of the enchanting new concoction - and the rest is Oolong history!
The most famous hunt in Oolong history!: Another Oolong origin story goes that the tea was named after a tea farmer named Wu Liang - a name that evolved into Wu Long or Oolong over time. Hard at work in his tea fields one day, We Liang spotted a deer. Excited bu the discovery, Wu Liang dropped his load of leaves, and went off to hunt and prepare a meal out of the deer. A day or so passed before Wu Liang remembered about his tea leaves which, by now, had darkened out in the sun. Wu Liang brewed the leaves anyway, and was so delighted by the mellow, aromatic liquid sensation that he promptly shared the tea with his friends, neighbors, countrymen... until the whole world came to know the everlasting charms of oolong.