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The Story of Jasmine Tea

Long long ago, there was a tea trader in Beijing, his name was Chen Gu-chiu. One day, he was talking with a tea master in a tea house. He remembered he had a small bag of tea from a young girl, but he had never got a chance to try it. Therefore he invited the tea master to try this tea with him together. When they put the tea inside hot water, they smelt a strong aroma which was different from any other tea. Suddenly there was a illusion inside the steam: they could see a beautiful young girl holding a bundle of jasmine flower. Chen was astonished and asked the tea master about this tea. The tea master said this must be the top grade "Gratitude Tea", so Chen told him the story of the tea: Three years ago Chen went to South China to purchase tea. One day, when he was sitting in a small inn, he hear the crying of a young girl. This girl had just lost his father but she did not have enough money to bury his father. Chen gave her some pieces of silver to arrange the funeral. Three years after when he went to the same inn again, the waiter gave him a small bag of tea and said that was the gift from the young girl. He did not realize that it was a treasured tea. But why did the girl hold jasmine flowers in her hand? Chen and the tea master reckoned that this must be the instruction from the Tea Goddess: Jasmine can be used to make scent tea. Next summer Chen Gu-chiu started to mix jasmine and tea together to make scent tea and he got great success in his business. Ever since then the jasmine tea has been more and more popular in China. Nowadays, jasmine tea is the major scent tea for the Chinese people.

 

 

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