| One often encounters references to the "Ten Famous Teas
of China." The list is somewhat problematic, however, because there
is really no "official" list and it differs slightly from source to
source, with the only constant being that longjing (Dragon Well) tea always tops the
list. One enterprising website,
chinese-teas.net, has taken the bull by the horns, collecting 20
different lists and ranking the teas by the number of times they appear on
the lists. Only two, longjing and biluochun, achieved a perfect
score. Here is the list developed by chinese-teas.net. Set
character encoding for the browser window to Unicode (UTF-8) to view the
Chinese names correctly. |