International Tea Fair to Be Held in East China

An International Tea Fair will be held in Xingzi County in east China's Jiangxi Province from April 29 to May 2.

The New Millennium International Tea Fair, co-sponsored by the Jiangxi Provincial Tourism Bureau, the Xingzi county government and several other organizations, will be open to domestic and overseas traders, investors and people interested in tea culture.

Tea performances, academic exchanges as well as trade and investment talks will be held during the four-day fair.

Xingzi boasts two famous springs, Gulian Spring and Fangqiaotan Spring, which are recorded in The Book of Tea by Lu Yu (733-804 A. D.), a well-known Chinese tea expert.

The book is believed to be the world's first tea primer, dealing systematically with the cultivation of tea bushes and methods of tea-processing.

China is the home of tea. Tea shrubs are recorded as early as five to six thousand years ago. Along with silk and porcelain, tea was exported all over the world more than a thousand years ago.

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