Sunday, November 8, 2009

Monkey Picked Tea.

This rare chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain region of China. Legend has it that monkeys were first used to collect tea ten centuries ago, because upon seeing its master trying to reach some tea growing wild on a mountain face, the monkey climbed up the steep face and collected the tea growing there and brought it down to his master.

Nowadays the practice of monkeys picking tea has all but died out, except in one small remote village where they still continue this remarkable tradition.


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