Tea Road

In 'A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Tea' (Chibooks and Lao Dong Publishing House published), author Do Quang Tuan Hoang took readers on a journey to discover the tea tree in many aspects and stages, from tea buds, ancient tea growing areas... to when it becomes a drink, food... under interesting cultural, political, historical, and social lenses.

The author said, "Because I love drinking tea, I have to search for everything related to tea. Wherever I go, I always pay attention to find tea trees, ask people how to make tea, drink tea, and about customs and practices related to tea." Therefore, in the book, most of the space is spent on the journey to explore ancient Shan Tuyet tea regions such as Lung Phin, Cao Bo (Tuyen Quang), Tua Chua (Dien Bien), Phja Den (Cao Bang), Bang Phuc (Thai Nguyen)...

Unique ways of making tea to create delicious drinks such as Oriental Beauty, white tea, black tea, black tea, blue tea, chit tea, tangerine tea... as well as infusing tea with lotus, jasmine, areca, grapefruit, wolfberry... were introduced, showing the diversity of our country's tea.

In each story, the author uses the ethnographic form of observation and field research to provide the most authentic and comprehensive perspectives. In addition, individuals and businesses that are joining hands to preserve and revive ancient teas such as man hao, tra chot, tra linh, etc. are also mentioned.

Looking to the future, one of the issues the author is concerned about is how to further introduce this special drink to the world , from which the current situation and plans to make it a reality are also mentioned.

The Chinese edition of the book is expected to come out next year.

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Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ngang-doc-duong-tra-185250809220742487.htm