want to find tea friend in Boston

Which school are you affiliated with, and where are you from?

I will be back in Boston in March for a few weeks.

MarshalN

Indra,

Please supply the chinese characters for the Yancha teas you mentioned.

谢谢 Jim

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IMHO "it's (new pu'er) definitely harmful to your health" is not a very responsible statement if all your support arguments are limited to "i've heard several cases in chinese tea forum" and/or "some reseacher remind me too." You have to quote some serious sources to substantiate such a categorical statement. Calling yourself a Harvard scholar comes with certain obligations.

BTW - I also would like to remind everyone here that almost all of the information about benefits or perils of tea drinking is hearsay anyway, since nobody can afford double blind medical trials on a non-patentable natural product. That does not mean that we can or cannot believe them, individually or as groups. But it does mean that a scientist should never make statements like the one above.

Sasha.

yes, sasha'a explaination is right. thanks. zhengyan, compared with banyan(half rock zone) and waishan(outer mountains) or pingdi(flat plain), refers the core zone( and traditionally only the rock tea in within this zone can be called rock tea) of wuyi yancha. "Alex Chaihorsky 写道： "

Sorry, I'm confused. Isn't Qing the word for "blue-green" here?

/Lew

Sasha,

I meant I knew the characters for Names shuixian etc but not for the Variety huiwan etc. It was easier to ask for all the characters instead of what I really needed. You are right I would have missed the context ZhengYan reference as opposed to banyan or zhouyan areas which Indra indicated in a later post.

Jim

PS Warn> Cowboy,

My fault. I misunderstood you. It took some help from Lew and his followup on qing and blue-green. My Chinatown doesn't carry any DanCong so it must be Yancha :-). It is the Xiamen export brand.

Jim

PS Google just came up with a new > well, here qing means grey and "say" is just "say" as in english. I