China National Tea Museum 🍵

We entered the China National Tea Museum as the scent of roasted leaves and fresh mountain air welcomed us in light, earthy, and comforting 🌿🍵🏛️. Nestled in the quiet hills of Longjing, the museum felt more like a garden than a gallery, with winding paths, bamboo groves, and traditional architecture that seemed to flow with the landscape. Inside, the story of tea unfolded gently, through ancient teapots, handwritten scrolls, and displays showing how a single leaf could carry centuries of culture, ceremony, and connection. In quiet pavilions, visitors sat sipping samples of green, black, oolong, and pu’er, each cup a world of its own delicate, deep, or bright with bitterness 🫖📜🪷. Through open windows, we could see the rolling tea fields beyond, where farmers still plucked leaves by hand as they had for generations. The museum wasn’t loud or grand it was calm and steeped in care. A place where history brewed slowly, and every sip reminded us to slow down, breathe deeply, and taste the beauty of the present moment 🕊️🌱🍂. #chinatravel #myitinerary #travel