CULTURE & SEASONS · NEW ESSAY
Mid-Autumn
On time, reunion, and parting
Why does a festival of reunion hold so many stories of separation and longing?
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TEALORA · A JOURNAL ROOTED IN YUNNAN
A journey into tea.
Beginning in Yunnan.
Practical guides, quiet observations, and a closer look at the leaves in your cup.
Find your first readLEAVES · PEOPLE · A LITTLE TIMEYUNNAN, CHINA
AN OPEN INVITATION
There is no hurry to know tea.
Start with a leaf, a cup, or a story. Let curiosity take you from there.
From YunnanEvery cup begins
Every cup begins
somewhere.
Beyond the leaves are forests, villages, and the people who tend them. Begin in Jingmai, and look a little closer.
Read the Yunnan noteTHE READING TABLE
Start with a question.
Practical tea notes and stories to read with a cup.
THE BASICS01
Your first cup of loose-leaf tea
A mug, a strainer, and a little attention. Begin with what you already have.
Read the noteKNOW THE LEAF02
Raw and ripe pu-erh: where to begin
Two names you will meet often. A useful distinction before you buy your first sample.
Read the noteA SMALL PRACTICE03
You already have the words to taste tea
Leave the perfect tasting vocabulary aside. Start with three ordinary questions.
Read the noteNOTES FROM YUNNAN04
A tea garden does not always look like a garden
Jingmai invites us to look beyond a leaf and notice the people and landscape around it.
Read the noteA NOTE FROM HAYDENFrom Yunnan,
From Yunnan,
with curiosity.
I’m Hayden, from Yunnan and now living in Slovenia. Tea, photography, and the everyday life of my home region are the starting points for this journal.
The story behind Tealora