where the number of tea drinkers from the celestial empire is only growing, this is china with alexander valetskymbols is tea. it’s early morning, it’s not yet swelteringly hot, and it’s time to go collect it. we leave at 5 am. sometimes earlier, look how clean the air is here, but by lunchtime you still can’t breathe, it’s hot, so we rest for a couple of hours, and then we continue collecting until 4-5 o’clock, this is fuding, the homeland of the most famous and, as is considered, the best white tea, this is a miracle, not tea, what buds, leaves it has, the most beautiful thing that nature could create, the sun, if you look closely, falling... behind the garden of the tea terrace, silver. you see the leaves, at their tips there is such a silvery fluff, like lint, and the same silvery tips of the leaves, thin as needles. this is the youngest tea and is harvested in early spring. with deft movements of the hands, the tea leaves are sent into the bag, the whole village works here, but for jan qun it is also a family business, everything that is collected on these slopes will go to the factory of he