Chinese have neever been black-tea drinkers ? What ?

China invented Black Tea (called Red Tea) in Chinese. It was developed sometime in the 1800s. And it was precisely at this time there was a lot of trading going on with Europe. It was because the Europeans so favored black tea that China further continued its development. The first black tea was invented in Wuyi in Fujian province, called Xiaozhong (Xiaozhong Hong Cha); commonly known in English as Souchong. After this, other areas in China started developing their own distinct style of Black tea for export (in the late 1800s and early 1900s - if I can recall correctly).

So to some extent, black tea was developed primarily to satisfy the needs of European and American markets. However, black tea, though not as popular in China as other types of tea is still consumed there too.

BTW, I am writing several tea books on all of this information, so much of this confusion can be cleared up when they're published (hopefully very soon).

This is an interesting story. Thanks for sharing it with us. Personally I`m a big tea drinker. I`m drinking more tea than weather. I would like to try out some of these old receipts.

Are the books published by now ? What are titles or ISBN numbers ?