#anhui
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Sixteen Ingredients in One Ink Stick
Wang Chunlin, an Anhui provincial intangible-heritage ink master, blends sixteen medicinal and aromatic ingredients into a single stick of oil-soot ink — meant to be ground slowly, counting to eighty-one.
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The Yellow Tea Almost No One Makes Anymore
Yellow tea is China's rarest of the six tea categories — and this one takes more than ten days to ferment, against the two or three days ordinary yellow tea allows.
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A Flower That Leaves Before You Drink It
This year's new experiment: a Qimen black tea scented with Shandong rose, then sifted clean — no petals left in the dry leaf, just what the tea absorbed.