Hangzhou >> The Chinese Tea Museum

Attraction Typ: Galleries, Palast and Museums

Location: about 20 km from city

Recommend: 4 Star

The Chinese Tea Museum

Being one of the largest theme museums in Hangzhou City, the Chinese Tea Museum lies with the green hills at its back and tea plantations—Longjing Village in front. It is an ideal place for relaxing and enjoying a cup of tea.

The Chinese Tea Museum (Chinese: 中国茶叶博物馆; pinyin: Zhōngguó Cháyè Bówù Guǎn) is a national-rank museum mainly exhibiting the tea and its culture. Being one of the largest theme museums in Hangzhou City, the Chinese Tea Museum lies with the green hills at its back and tea plantations—Longjing Village in front. The trees made a shade everywhere with flowers in bloom all the year round in the museum. It is definite a elegant and quiet place for relaxing and enjoying a cup of tea.

The Chinese Tea Museum was completed and opened to the public in October 1990. It consists of 4 groups of buildings with displays outlining the traditions of growing tea south of the Yangtze River. Tourists can not only learn about the history of tea but also learn how to identify and know the best varieties and the etiquette of tea drinking in China.

The four separated buildings are respectively of exhibition, tea sipping and tasting, tea service ceremony and multi-function. 6 exhibition zones are setting in the exhibition building, including history of tea-growing, the varieties and distribution of tea in China, events related to tea, various tea utensils used in the old dynasties and tea-drinking habits in different parts of China with tea-related culture.

The second building has been a fine locale for a number of cultural activities on tea, including a series of international seminars on tea culture and exchange.

The rest buildings serve as tea drinking and performance sections, which not only introduce you the way to drink tea in detail, but also display various drinking rituals seen in different provinces and foreign countries.