中国茶叶博物馆

This guide to the China National Tea Museum in Hangzhou centers on the hand-fired technique behind Longjing tea, watched up close in the museum's open-air tea-baking workshop. You'll meet a master frying tea with nothing but his bare palm against a scorching iron wok, a skill recognized in 2022 as UNESCO-listed cultural heritage, and learn what it costs a fryer's hands to turn raw leaf into a single catty of tea. The museum has no wall separating its halls from the working plantations outside, so the story keeps circling back to the fields just past the exhibits.