Congou
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Congou (Chinese:
Name[edit]
The etymology of the tea is the same as kung fu, from the Chinese for "skill" (
The popular variety Panyang Congou (or Panyong Congou) is a corruption of Tanyang (Chinese:
Identification[edit]
The source the importers called "Cangou" was Amoy Kanghu tea, or Teochew Kanghu tea, the 'espresso' of Chinese teas (Chaozhou Gongfu cha,
References[edit]
- ^ Daily Life in 18th-Century England - Page 238 Kirstin Olsen - 1999 "Strong types, like green "gunpowder tea" or black pekoe, were blended with hyson or "bloom tea," which were generally weaker. Congou was the most popular type; bohea, the cheapest and least fashionable, was drunk on its own mostly ..."
- ^ The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Volume 9 - Page 75 Charles Knight, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1840 "Congou, the next in quality to Souchong, is called by the Chinese Koong-foo (" labour — assiduity"), and consists of a careful selection of the ... Thus, Canton Bohea is a mixture of the commonest Congou with the inferior tea of the province."
- ^ "Language Log » Kung-fu (Gongfu) Tea".
- ^ "Panyang Congou Reviews".
- ^ http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0607/tea.htm [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Shyam Narain Singh, Amarendra Narain, Purendu Kumar Socio-Economic and Political Problems of Tea Garden Workers Page 75 2006 "The smallest leaf forms orange-pekoe, the second leaf, the pekoe, the third leaf pekoe-souchong, the fourth leaf souchong and the fifth congou grade of tea."
- ^ Kit Boey Chow, Ione Kramer - All Teas in China - Page 179 1990 "for promotion purposes, many non-Chinese companies borrow names from Chinese teas, such as Bohea, Congou, Hyson, Souchong, Chunmee, Sowmee, Pekoe, Keemun, etc. Such labels may contain little or no tea of ..."