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Far left: Tea growers
unload freshly
harvested leaves at
the market in Emei,
Sichuan. Buyers are
often the owners
of tea-processing
factories.
Left: Some teas are
better brewed in
silver or cast-iron
teapots, which
bring out different
textures and flavors
of the tea.Left: The tea
company label
around a cake
of Pu’erh can
indicate the
source of the tea—
which mountain
the leaves come
from—and the age
of the cake.
Above: At Mengding
Mountain, Sichuan,
where Taoist master
Wu Lizhen is said
to have planted
the first tea bushes
2,000 years
ago, a bas-relief
memorializes a tea
porter.