Wuyutai Tea Shop Hosts Calligraphic Exhibition

To celebrate the Chinese New Year,Tian Boping,secretary-general of Beijing Calligraphers Association,recently held a solo calligraphic exhibition featuring tea traditions at Wuyutai Tea Shop at Wangfujing,a Beijing-based centuries-old tea brand.     

Century-old Tea Brand Projects New Image

Wuyutai, a century-old tea brand name, started its business with the sale of jasmine tea and over years, its business scope has been widely developed to include a variety of tea types. In particular, in the recent years, it has evolved into a group corporation through intensified tea processing, chain-store operation and opening flagship stores with cultural elements, witnessing an annual sales volume of up to 600 million RMB yuan （approx. 90 million USD）.     

Meet In Beijing Arts Festival Gets Under Way

<正>From April 30 to May 28, artists from around the world will present an art gala for the audience in Beijing. This year, the annual Meet In Beijing Arts Festival will highlight the interaction between artists and audiences, with an aim to promote diversity of art forms and cooperation among arts groups, arts institutions, government agencies and arts professionals and provide opportunities for their sustainable development.     

Shop Signs of Old Beijing

Shop signs were perhaps the most appealing elements of Beijing＇s old shops in the late 19th and early 20th century, even though their architectural styles, furnishings and business operation were also unique. These shop signs were informative and decorative, adding to business prosperity of the old capital.     

Innovation Brings New Life to Time-honored Brand

Qianmen Street was the most vibrant shopping and entertainment district in old times Beijing. Today, many time-honored brands still run business here, among which Wuyutai, a century-old tea brand, is an exemplar company. Its innovative store ＂Oriental Yutai＂, located at the west end of Qianmen Street, attracts hundreds of customers and tourists every day.     

New Concepts Give Life to Purple Sand Art

China New Concept Purple Sand Art Exhibition was held recently in Baiyefeng No. 5 Hall in Beijing. The one-month exhibition offered Beijing people an opportunity to appreciate vitality of the old purple sand art in modern times. Purple sand, unique to Yixing, Jiangsu Province, has become the ideal material for tea things since the Ming and Qing dynasties. The special techniques developed over several hundred years have helped to perfectly integrate material, design and function.     

China National Tea Museum

Walking along the West Lake, unwittingly I was already in the heart of the hometown of tea - Shuangfeng （double peaks）, Glowing rays shone over rounding ranges of hills, fragrance of tea leaves permeated, and fresh springs wound through valleys, I realized that I had been in China National Tea Museum, a retreat from the hurly-burly of metropolitans.     

茶叶西传录

茶乃开门七件事之一，梁实秋《喝茶》云：“北方人早起，路上相逢，辄问讯‘喝茶么?一中国人以茶为人生必需品已有千余年，而饮茶在西方人的生活方式里渐渐占据重要的位置，却是近二三百年的事。“茶，消散了我的愁苦，它，使欢乐调剂了严肃，这饮料给我们带来了多少幸福，它增加了我们智慧和愉快的欢呼!”     

Wuyutai Tea Store in Liaocheng

An outstanding enterprise must be an enterprise with cultural pursuit.Wuyutai has developed a unique corporate culture through its chain store operation.Wuyutai treats each of its franchised stores as its partner and friend, with an aim to continue and promote the time-honored brand.     

筆床茶竈雨笠烟蓑

筆墨紙硯,是中國傳統的文房四寶.它們各有并共有與之配套的種種器具,可以籠而統之將之合稱為文房用具.我正在閱讀學習的一本華慈祥先生所著的<文物鑒賞叢書·文房用具>(上海書店出版社2004年版),還有一部朱季黄(家滔)先生主編的<中國文房四寶全集·4·文房清供>(北京出版社2008年版),都是專門講這些用具的.華先生是從文物鑒賞角度講的,朱先生主編的更是一本圖錄.     

《茶经》是陆羽揭开茶事秘密的一面镜子

最近读日本文学修士冈仓天心（1862～1913年）在明治三十九年（1905年）写成的《说茶》中文新译本，东京大学藤田一美教授在题写《致中国读者））代序中说，这本书和中国读者见面。“就像回娘家的姑娘似的”，但“真是太晚了些”。其实，早在1942年，我国学者已经看到这本书，并且译为《茶之书”。书中关于唐代茶文化，主要是以陆羽及其《茶经》为张本，天心先生明确指出：第，“茶。开始是用作药材。后来就成为饮料。     

Wuyutai Tea Store in Qianmen

An outstanding enterprise must be an enterprise with cultural pursuit.Wuyutai has developed a unique corporate culture through its chain store operation.Wuyutai treats each of its franchised stores as its partner and friend,with an aim to continue and promote the     

茶城成都

成都市的市花是芙蓉花,早在五代时期成都就叫芙蓉城。可是,如今人们都称成都为茶城,何也？因为这个上干万人口的大都市,与茶有关。     

茶与茶馆琐谈

茶和茶馆是两回事，就好比饭和饭店也是两回事一样，开门七件事，柴米油盐酱醋茶，说明茶是很日常生活的。但茶馆的色彩就比较丰富了，也可以说茶是包括在茶馆一起的，茶是净重，茶馆是毛重。     

Exhibition Showcases Tea and Wine Culture

During his state visit to France and Belgium this year, Chinese President Xi v Jinping stressed the importance of cultural origins and ties. In his speech delivered at the College of Europe, Xi took Chinese tea and Western wine as examples, noting that ＂Chinese tea＇s conservativness and restrainedness and European wine＇s vibrancy and warmth represents two different ways in enjoying life and interpreting the world.＂     

Century-old Brand Offers Fresh Spring Tea

In the chill of the early spring in April, Wuyutai, a century-old tea shop served local customers of Beijing with fresh green tea picked and processed before the Pure Bright Festival. The well-picked and finely-processed green tea sold so well that it ran out of supply. Like what happened in previous years, the tea variety of Dragon Well from the West Lake is the most popular early spring tea among local customers. This tea variety is famous not for its super quality but also for its cultural richness.     

一杯清茶四季香--徽州的茶俗

每逢三月,春风春雷春雨过,满山满岭茶园醒,嫩枝绿叶茶旗展,茶季就来了. 徽州茶谚云：“假忙除夕夜,真忙摘茶叶.”意思是说,摘茶的季节是徽州人一年中最忙碌的时候.