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Obscure tea process vocabulary


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In the unlikely event that this is of any use to anyone :mrgreen:

杀青 shāqīng - heating process

揉捻 róu niǎn - rolling

干燥 gānzào - drying

萎凋 wěidiāo - withering

做青 zuò qīng - fine manipulation

闷黄 mēn huáng - mysterious covered drying process known only to the initiated

渥堆 wò duī - pile fermentation

These all came from a document on tea, translations are mine after looking them up in a Chinese dictionary and doing a bit of internet guesswork.

Roddy

PS. Pinyin with numbers, in case you don't have pinyin fonts

Sha1qing1

rou2 nian3

gan1zao4

wei3diao1

zuo4 qing1

men1 huang2

wo4 dui1

Posted

Yeah, my dictionary (the ABC) has the first definition as 'finish a book/film/etc' and the second as 'heat-process tea'.

Roddy

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