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  • Can anyone identify this?

    From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 9 16:28:39 2020
    What is this?

    http://www.panix.com/~kludge/tea_3.jpg

    The first character is clearly "gold" jin. But the other three I can't
    figure out. Boxwood?

    What am I drinking? It's some sort of light oolong.
    --scott

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  • From Lewis Perin@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Sat Dec 12 16:50:55 2020
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

    What is this?

    http://www.panix.com/~kludge/tea_3.jpg

    The first character is clearly "gold" jin. But the other three I can't >figure out. Boxwood?

    What am I drinking? It's some sort of light oolong.

    It’s Jin1 Tan2 Que4 She2, or [place name] Sparrow Tongue, which is a
    cultivar that I *think* is usually made into Long Jing style green tea.
    But I’m sure you can tell the difference between green and oolong.

    /Lew
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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to perin@panix.com on Mon Dec 14 14:45:32 2020
    Lewis Perin <perin@panix.com> wrote:
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

    What is this?

    http://www.panix.com/~kludge/tea_3.jpg

    The first character is clearly "gold" jin. But the other three I can't >>figure out. Boxwood?

    What am I drinking? It's some sort of light oolong.

    It’s Jin1 Tan2 Que4 She2, or [place name] Sparrow Tongue, which is a >cultivar that I *think* is usually made into Long Jing style green tea.
    But I’m sure you can tell the difference between green and oolong.

    Beautiful, many thanks! This is definitely an oolong, but it also might not
    be the original tea in this container either. I suspect now that it is not. --scott
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  • From Warren Peltier@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 22 10:24:35 2020
    http://www.panix.com/~kludge/tea_3.jpg




    金坛雀舌 Jintan Queshe or Jintan Sparrow's Tongue.

    It's a green tea, not oolong. Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan are the main (traditional) oolong tea producing areas. But now, other tea producing areas (Guizhou, for example) are starting to experiment with producing other tea types such as oolong.

    Here is the description of the tea on Baidu: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%87%91%E5%9D%9B%E9%9B%80%E8%88%8C%E8%8C%B6/10102525?fromtitle=%E9%87%91%E5%9D%9B%E9%9B%80%E8%88%8C&fromid=655771&fr=aladdin

    It's produced in the Jintan District of Changzhou city in Jiangsu province. Here is a description of Jintan district on Baidu; complete with photo of the tea farm where your tea came from:
    https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%87%91%E5%9D%9B%E5%8C%BA/17540939?fromtitle=%E9%87%91%E5%9D%9B&fromid=4707410&fr=aladdin

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