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Silver Needles is a famous kind of China’s white tea growing in Fujian Province. Silver Needles Tea is amongst the finest and most representative of white teas. It has been described as “ideal” and “elegant”. For the coastal province of Fujian there is an old tradition, local people believe that the daughter's trousseau can be only enriched by an elegant tea, which only comes of age when the child is married off. Silver Needles is just this kind of tea. When silver needle is

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Yixing clay teapot or Zisha pot (literally means purple sand pot) is considered a precious piece of traditional Chinese tea art with a history of more than 2400 years. Yixing clay is baked at lower temperature than porcelain. It is unglazed. All of the teapots look much the same to untrained eyes - no more than 10 to 15 centimeters in height and diameter, of dark non-glossy surface, with a matching cap on top and mouth on the side. The teapot absorbs a small amount of the tea as it brewed inside. To maintain the consistency of the flavor, sometimes the user has several pots for different type of tea. Yixing is a city in Jiangsu province, which has been part of the Yangtze Delta. Yixing clay is made by grinding and weathering these rocks. Which are rich preserved in Yixing. Yixing clay has three basic tones of color: purple, red and green. Whichever tone it is, the clay is mostly dark and unglazed, not glossy and shining bright like porcelain.