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China Matters Explores the Secrets of the 'Queen of Chinese Green Tea' BEIJING, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Around mid to late March each year, farmers in southeastern Chinese city of Hangzhou are busy picking tea leaves. The Longjing tea, a precious Chinese green tea specially grown in Hangzhou, needs to be collected within one to two weeks to maintain its tender nature. Named after its birthplace, Longjing Village, the renowned green tea has around 1,200 years' history. The very finest tea shoots are traditionally picked and processed in spring before the Qingming Festival in early April. ...

Share this article Share this article LONDON, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Holidays may be impossible for many at the moment – but you can still go around the world of teas and sample some home-brewed delights from far-flung places, like Japan, Sri Lanka and Malawi. The UK Tea and Infusions Association is marking International Tea Day – starting on 21 st April – with a series of podcasts called "Around the world in 80 teas - the first few stops" in which Dr Sharon Hall, Chief Executive of the UK Tea and Infusions Association, and her co-host, Will Battle, author of the World Tea Encycl...

Views: Visits 14 Extreme weather is being blamed for a horrifying incident that left one tourist stranded on a 260-meter-high glass-bottomed suspension bridge in northeast China’s Jilin province on May 7. The bridge is located in the Piyan Mountain Cultural Tourism Scenic Area outside the city of Longjing. According to a statement posted on the Weibo account of local authorities, the incident took place at 12:45 p.m. on Friday, when was hit by record-high winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour. Officials say rescue teams were called in to help the stranded tourist, who was able to ...

First Published: 1:48 PM PDT, May 13, 2021 The bridge is located in the Pyan Mountain Cultural Tourism Scenic Area on the outskirts of the city of Longjing. A man was left clinging to the rail of a glass-bottom suspension bridge in China's northeast province after part of the crossing partially shattered as historic winds pummeled the massive structure. The unidentified tourist was captured in a photo that circulated across Weibo, a Chinese social media site, showing him crouched over and clinging onto the side rails. He was stuck for over half an hour before he was able to crawl back to s...

TravelAwaits May.11.2021 If you enjoy walking across glass-bottomed pedestrian bridges stretching high above rocky canyons, you may want to stop reading here. Last week, a man was stranded on a glass-bottomed pedestrian bridge 330 feet above a canyon in the Piyan Mountain Cultural Tourism Scenic Area outside the city of Longjing, China, after sudden gale-force winds damaged the bridge. Fortunately, the man was rescued and taken to a hospital, China’s state-controlled news outlet Xinhua reports. A Harrowing Experience The incident began at 12:45 p.m. last Friday, when record-making high wind...