Traditional Tea Growing in the New Territories, RASHKB article
HF: Patrick Hase and James Hayes have kindly given permission to post their article, Traditional Tea Growing in the New Territories. KC Iu was also co-author but regrettably I have been unable to contact him.
The article was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol 24, 1984.
It has three sections, each written by one of the co-authors. The initial paragraphs of each have been extracted below.
If you have seen tea growing and being sold at Ngong Ping (the site of the Big Buddha) you may not be aware that it was grown in many localities in the New Territories. This article mentions the following villages where the author found tea being grown:
Fu Ta Chau, Ha Yeung, Hang Kung Uk, Mau Tso Ngam, Lower Keung Shan, Nam Wai, Pa Mei (Shan Ha) Pak Kong Au, Pui O Tong, Shan Liu, Sheung Sze Wan, Tai Hang Hau, Tai Po Tsai, Tong Fuk, Upper Keung Shan, Wong Chuk Yeung
Location of Mau Tso Ngan village
See:
- Traditional Tea Growing in the New Territories – the complete article
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This article was first posted on 20th April 2015.
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