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Tea Tasting 26

At the start of March, when the new tea sprouts,
around the time of the Qingming Festival, or the
Tomb-sweeping Day, it is the time to pick teas.
During this period, the tea field in Jiangsu can
not only produce quality teas but also is a nice
place for tourists to go for a walk.

Tea trees are pickier to choose their planting
sites than humans. Many teas with poetic
names are in Jiangsu Province with scenic
views, such as Suzhou's Biluochun tea, Nanjing's
Yuhua tea, Liyang's white tea, Yixing's Yangxian
tea, Yangzhou's Lvyangchun tea and Maoshan's
Changqing tea. Every bud sprouting in spring
awakens on mountains in Jiangsu, making the
spring scenes tastable and admirable.
In Jiangsu, one should taste the aroma of
tea, which is related to the Spring of China's
"Jiangnan," or the area south of the downstream
Yangtze River, and Spring's"first bite of
freshness." We walked into picturesque villages
and modern tea factories and sorted out tea
houses and scenery parks around them, to
provide you more leisure choices in Spring.