December 9, 2007

• Wuyi to Darjeeling….

  

  Robert Fortune took tea from Wuyishan to India thru Fuzhou port was the claim staked by Mr. Wu Jian Ming of Fujian Wuyishan National Nature Reserve Lapsang Tea Industry Co. Ltd., who said he had documentary proofs to this on his website www.lapsang.cn and claimed that his 24 generations were involved in the lapsang souchong making.

  My search connected with this topic always prompted me to think that tea must have been brought from Anhui thru Shanghai port, though my own involvement with Darjeeling since 1976 never made me sufficiently educated about this and only since 2004 I started thinking on this topic.

  During my November 2007 trip thru Fuzhou & Wuyishan and during earlier trips to Huangshan mountaints and Shanghai port, I have been now more determined as to find clues to this. I met some people from Hangzhou National Tea Museum but nothing is documented there too.

  I invite western and oriental writers to enlighten me on this further. http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/

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