What are the best conditions for producing rock tea?

How do we categorize the different tea sources?

What is rock charm?

What is the mountain tea fields problem?

How do we know if a tea is high-quality or not?

Why should we not choose less expensive or big-brand rock teas?

When is high heat required when roasting teas?

Not surprisingly, the taste and quality of teas from different areas of the mountain differ greatly.

Why was fully-fired charcoal roasting so important?

What makes rock tea authentic?

What is charcoal roasting?

What are the initial processes of making rock tea?

How do tea producers distinguish between the many varieties of tea produced on Wuyi Mountain?

What are some of the lesser-known varieties that come from mid-season shrub tea trees?

How did the different varieties of teas in the Wuyi Mountain come to be?

What is Wuyi Rock Tea and where does it come from?

Some more differences between Shanghai and Beijing.

Our host meets a half-Beijingese, half-Shanghainese, and learns the importance of using "nin" while in Beijing.

It's time for more impressions of Beijing.

The artist talks about how in his day conversation was more lively and people weren't looking at their phones all the time.

Is there anything about Shanghai that's better than Beijing?

The artist talks about how art progresses and how that progression has to move slowly.

Not all Beijingers have been to Shanghai, but they've certainly heard of its main attractions.

The painter describes how he would travel all over his city in his teenage years to observe all the different oil painters he could see.