List of the Principal Tea Districts in China And Notes On the Names Applied to T
List of the Principal Tea Districts in China And Notes On the Names Applied to T
H C Hollingworth
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" Souchong is derived from jj> fjf (Seaou-chung) which means " small sort. " Paou-cliony is derived from j |f (Paou-chung), which means "wrapped sort. " This is also called Padre Souchong from the fact of the priests, at the Woo-e shan (Bohea hills) and other celebrated places, cultivating and preparing very choice teas, which are packed in small paper bundles, each of which is sup- posed to be the produce of one shrub only. Flowery Pekoe. This is called in Chinese j ^ (Peh-haou), which means "... white down/' because it is picked before the leaf-bud has expanded, at which time the convoluted part is covered with a down-like sub- stance. Oolong is a conniption of t |=| f| (Woo-lung), which means literally Black Dragon. The origin of this term [ 11 ] being applied to a description of Tea is stated to be as follows : A Tea-planter named Soo noticed that one of his plants bore leaves of remarkable fragrance, and, after carefully watching the plant day by day so as to ascertain the cause, discovered a Black Ser- pent coiled round the stem of the bush, which re- mained there for a considerable period.
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