The Story Behind Oolong Tea: Health Benefits, History, and Place in Chinese Medicine

tea bag. And what is oolong tea? They're not fermented. Half fermented. This is half fermented. Okay, it's half fermented. So it means it's also strong. I'll give a taste in a minute. This oolong tea, we can put in this one. So therefore again, you put a little bit of this in here. Okay, this is your cup, this is my cup. And then, and normally do the same things. We have, because the fermentation, they have a little dust into it. So we want to sort of maybe firstly to wash them again. So this one, they wash them slightly different. So you put water into it. And then you just using the lid to wash them. And then throw away. Yeah, that's how you clean. And then, and then you can put hot water. So this second one, start to ready for drinking. So this one same, I can, I can do the washing of all this, all this dust. And then you can, you can do it with hot water there. So, so that's the tea. So that's why you see many ancient Chinese films, people drinking tea this way. So this is just for oolong, the middle one? No, there are many different, you can do many things. You can leave them here. Because I just want to show you everything. Then we got a slightly strong, we call it oolong tea. So just, this is what I early on made for you. You take one cup this. Okay, this is my cup. So, so the oolong tea, you can see they're stronger. So you can see the color even stronger now. And normally Chinese were doing this, you see, because there's a lot of tea leaves, they're floating, they do this way. So it's ancient time, they do this way. And then you, and then, and then they drink this way. So you just. Oh, cool. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Delicious. They're getting stronger. They're getting stronger. You can see. And some green tea tastes strong like this. That's why you will see many Chinese Kung Fu film. The master have a tea, like this way. And they have a lid on. Yeah. So that's, that's why. Yeah. So that's why the, the, the people have this, this special tea cup because they put it this way. You have a dragon on yours. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm a man. You're a lady. You have beautiful flowers. I got beautiful flowers because I'm a lady. Yeah. Yeah. This is called yin and yang, you know. In China, the emperor, they drink tea only with dragon. The emperor drink tea with either phoenix or with flower. Oh, phoenix. Is that the female yin, phoenix? Yeah. Okay, cool. So therefore, you see, it's everything. I do love flowers, so I'm very happy. Every cup have a symbol. Okay, nice. This whole about Chinese symbol. This tea is just say, especially is, they're half fermented. You can start to taste tea, but also they are fresh. So this is very good to, especially in the middle of the day, you drink them. Nice. Yeah. So you drink them. So this. So do you drink this every day? The long tea in the middle of the day? Oh yeah, if you have them. But of course, sometimes people drink them morning, evening, night. Just say, if you're a real tea drinker, just different. Just like say, you know, you drink wine, you drink, you know, it's like you have a champagne. This is like champagne. Yeah. It's equivalent to champagne, fresh. You drink first. And then, and then maybe this starts drinking red wine. Start drinking red wine. And then, so, and then we start drinking whiskey, 30 years old whiskey.