There is this story that I have just read about a certain Yang Hsien, a poor tea maker who made a living plucking and preparing tea leaves for rich people. Once, Yang Hsien had found an abandoned baby monkey. He looked after it and both became attached to each other. One day, when Yang Hsien was in a misty mountain, he saw a tea plant growing high up on a cliff. He tried to climb up to pick the leaves but failed miserably. The monkey, on seeing that, had imitated its master's action and hence, the latter was able to return home with this tea which had been named Yang Hsien Yun Wu after the tea maker and the misty mountain. The tea was extremely delicious and expensive too and Lo Yu, patron of tea and writer of Ch'a Ching had once declared it as the world's number one tea. Today, this rare Chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain region in China. Animals by far are man's beast friends, don't you think?Related Posts:
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