Museum
中国茶叶博物馆
Tea-culture campus of exhibition halls and tea-baking workshops set amid working plantations, with no walls separating museum from field.
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About this audio guide
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.
This audio guide was created using AI.