Revolutionary tea term

Dec 27, 2010 2 Replies

I saw Bejamin Carp talk about his book Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America on CSPAN over the weekend. In the Q&A he mentioned the teas tossed overboard. They were 4 blacks souchong,congou,bohea,? which he forgot. I am sure it was pekoe. Also two greens hyson and singlo. Singlo did not ring a bell at all. I wasnt even sure of the spelling which seems to right looking on the Internet. However the corresponding chinese characters arent so obvious. I came across an old chinese dictionary on Google books which groups tea names and mentions singlo tea. The two characters as I can make out are ??. I am sure of the first and ? on the second due to the blurred print. My Google Book character reference is

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Jim


You?re right about the first 2 characters. The third is ? (chá: tea!) By the way, what that text transliterates as ?singlo? is S?ng Luó in Pinyin. Songluo is a pretty well known tea from Huangshan.

/Lew

Thanks for the confirmation. Twankay and Campoi also pop up as old trading terms.

Jim

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