National Tea Museum Hangzhou

For an amazing holiday you have chosen one of the greatest countries in the world, your tour of China will offer you some of the best memories of your life. When you are in Hangzhou, you must visit National Tea Museum, Hangzhou. Chinese culture has referred to tea from time immemorial. The origin of the importance of tea in Chinese is a bit obscure but what is well known and well documented is the fact that the delicate brew has been a part and parcel of the glorious Chinese culture for centuries. Chinese culture and civilization is one of the oldest in the world. The ancient Chinese regarded rightly tea to be beneficial to health, in fact it is a known fact that tea can be the cure of many ailments. One of the greatest dynasties in the world, the Han Dynasty used tea as a medicine and its usage as drink for pleasure dates probably from the Tang Dynasty.

National Tea Museum, Hangzhou, is located in the Zhejiang Province and opened in 1991. It is a very large museum, showcasing some of the aspects of history of tea in China, in fact, it has an area of around 5.4 acres, but the construction area is around 0.9 acres. This museum is a first, that is this museum is about the only museum in China with tea as its theme. The most interesting part of this museum is that, there are no external walls, but the enclosed vegetation gives the impression that tea and vegetation here is interdependent. Be sure to observe closely the one hundred distinctive characters (Chinese) which are related to tea.

National Tea Museum, Hangzhou, has four parts, that is four distinctive group of buildings that are pure treasures as far as the history of tea drinking is concerned. Explore Hall of Tea History, Kaleidoscope Hall, Hall of Tea Properties, Tea Friendship Hall, Tea Sets Hall and Tea Customs Hall. Each hall has its own history to narrate, you will be mesmerized to find the different impacts of tea on the lives of the Chinese people. Be prepared to be surprised! The Kaleidoscope Hall features more than three hundred kinds of tea including the six basic tea types of China. The admission to the museum is free and you can easily arrange for cabs to take you there.