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Mei Jia Wu is one of only a handful of officially-recognized Longjing tea gardens next to the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. This is the earliest harvest of Longjing for 2022. These are the first buds, and are more tender and delicate than later harvests.
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The No.4 Mine in Huanglong Mountain opened in 1972 and closed in 1997. The mine sits on the southwest side of the mountain. The mine penetrates deeper than most into the mountain, in some spots reaching as deep as 80m. A report from 1987 shows that only 0.012% of the ore mined at the time contained lüni.
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Where does Pear Skin Zhuni come from? How is this bumpy texture created?
Sometimes marketed as being an exotic variety of zhuni clay, or old storage “lao” zhuni clay, pear skin zhuni is produced through a very old technique that is still practiced in Yixing today, called 调砂 Tiaosha.
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Where does it come from and what exactly is it? Hongni is one of the most enigmatic clays in Yixing.
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