Anxi County

FAO’s Anxi Tieguanyin Tea Culture System connects cultivation, settlement and processing. This agricultural designation is distinct from the Xiacaopu iron-production component of Quanzhou’s UNESCO property.

Anxi County

A white cup of pale tea sits on a bamboo tray covered with dark green rolled leaves.

Anxi Tieguanyin: From the Cup Back to the Hills

Tea gardens, drainage, leaf handling and repeated tasting reveal why Anxi Tieguanyin is a landscape and a craft as well as a drink.

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Tieguanyin tea and its tightly rolled dry leaves.福建省农业农村厅（图片） / 中国农业品牌公共服务平台（文章来源） · Rights status unspecified Photo source ↗ Original aspect ratio retained. Display copies resized only when needed; no enlargement, crop or retouching.