Mi from China

[Mi Lin][NYU]Water

[TEA AND WATER IN CHINA]

Self-introduction•Where do I come from?

Guangzhou (Or Canton, where Cantonese comes from!!)

Palaces

Skyscrapers

Dim Sum!! Yummy!

Self-introduction

Actually we also have skyscrapers and wonderful river view!

Guangzhou

Self-introduction• Like most New Yorkers, I has always lived in an apartment with my parents. • I am the only child in my family, but I have two close cousins. • I love Dim Sum! But Dim Sum means drinking morning tea• There is a special local culture that people always spend their lazy weekend mornings drinking tea, having dim sums and socializing• Actually tea is the protagonist, and dim sum is just the sides!!!

My younger cousin who just got his lucky money!

Warm-Up• Do you drink tea?

These are all black tea.

Warm-Up•What do you know about Chinese tea?•We drink all kinds of tea, black, green, yellow, woo-long, flower…• Can you tell the difference between teas in China?

Green

Woo-long

Yellow

Red(Black tea here)

Black

Flavor getting stronger

Warm-Up• Can you recognize these flower tea?

Chrysanthemum(My favorite!)

Jasmine

RoseOsmanthus fragrans(Smells really good!)

•We even use tea to boil eggs! •We call them “tea eggs”!

Warm-Up

• First, of course, we grow them.

How to make tea?

• Then, we stir fry them to dehydrate them.

By hand

• Last, we drink them!

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

Water greatly affects tea planting• Tea plants require a specific climate.• The monthly average temperature should be over 64

degrees and annually average rainfall should be over 1,000 mm.

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

• Without sufficient irrigation and rainfall, tea plants cannot survive.

• Then what if water is contaminated?

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

The tea could become poisonous!

•What causes water contamination in China nowadays?

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

Rapid industrial development

Large amount of untreated sewage is emitted to rivers

Excessive tea planting can strike off ecology balance• Tea trade is very popular in China nowadays.• Many farmers, especially in southern China, abandon

traditional agriculture like crop planting to take up tea planting.

• Because tea planting is very lucrative, some tea farmers destroy natural forests to over-expand their tea fields.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN THEN?

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

Soil erosion and water loss

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

Another threat from tea industry to water…

Yixing Clay Tea Pot

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

• Yixing Clay Tea Pot is made of a kind of special purple clay

• This clay exists in natural soil and is a major nutrition source for soil and water

• But red pottery tea pot collection is very popular in China

• Great profits from red pottery tea pot cause over-mining of red clay

• Thus leading to water nutrition level decline

Yixing Clay Tea Pot ThreatThis tea pot will cost you

5 million dollars!

Why does water matter to the tea industry?

Game Time!