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Q: Seasonality and Tea Drinking?
I've been told that many Chinese drink different kinds of tea depending on the time of year.
What teas are you supposed to drink and when?
Is there a specific reason they do this?
Is there a regional differentiation, i.e. southerners drinking a different tea than northerners?
Chinese medicine believes that different people should drink different tea according to the different characteristics and tastes of each kind of tea. Black tea can warm the stomach, refresh the mind, and accelerate digestion. Therefore, drinking warm black tea in the cold winter is a most suitable choice.
Also, drinking green tea during summer months is an acceptable choice, because it tends to add water to your body, and also good to mask your sking and protect it from sun rays (I swear I was told that).
And of course, any new season brings a new crop of different teas, and Chinese serioius tea drinkiers do follow that.
There are some sites on Internet that do explain a lot about this subject, and gives reasons for drinking each different one.
