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Google China made funny Video against baidu Ironically

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6 Oct


The video imitate the pattern in which the China Central Television News Network broadcast.In the 17 minutes’ news by the video ,”Bai du” (sounds like Baidu in Chinese,means poisonous)had been broadcasted for many times.And the news said “24 personal website owners whose sites were banned by Baidu for no reason united to ask Baidu for money.”so on.

Here is the funny video and hope you will enjoy it.

Notice:I have set up another blog thanks to one friend’s sponsorship for network space on VisualHost.I will introduce all kinds of chinese online games (3D,MMROPG,2D,FPS and so on) and Chinese online game market (some business about it)in the new blog.It’s special and interesting,and maybe someone can find out a business chance from the articles.Hope you will enjoy it.

The Green tea and pregnancy

Author: admin

12 Oct

During pregnancy, a caffeine intake of more than 600 mg per day, can have an abortive effect. This quantity of caffeine corresponds to a daily consumption of at least fourteen cups of tea with the highest caffeine content possible. Green tea has significantly less caffeine than coffee which makes it highly suitable drink during pregnancy.
During pregnancy, it is particularly important for women to enjoy good health and receive necessary elements. This is the reason why vitamin and iron preparations are frequently prescribed during pregnancy.
It is evident from the studies in the comparisons between coffee and green tea that coffee impairs or even prevents the absorption of iron and other trace elements.
On the other hand, green tea, besides its many other benefits, is an excellent source of iron and zinc.
Both of these elements are of tremendous importance during pregnancy.
Together with a healthy diet, it is obvious that the changeover from coffee and black tea to green tea is to be recommended and, if possible, that drinking coffee should be stopped before becoming pregnant.

How Does Wu-Long Tea Burn Fat?

Author: admin

12 Oct

 In China, tea has historically been used as a medicine. Many studies 1, 2, 3 have been carried out up to the present day about the effects of tea, including its natural weight loss benefits, which is common knowledge in China. A Chinese classical pharmaceutical book called the Bencao Shiyi (The Compendium of Materia Medica) states, “Drinking tea for a long time will make one live long and stay in good shape without becoming too fat and too heavy.”

Why does weight gain occur? Among other food items taken into your body through meals every day, sugar and fat are synthesized into triglyceride in the liver and the small intestine, which are then carried in the bloodstream and distributed throughout various tissues in the body. Triglyceride fat is the level of fat contained in the human body and is used as a source of energy for life support and physical activities. Excess amounts of triglyceride will be deposited within fat cells, which results in weight gain.

A study by International Journal of Obesity2 found polyphenol, which is the main tea antioxidant contained within Wu-Long tea, is effective in controlling body fat. Specifically, it activates the enzyme that is responsible for dissolving triglyceride. Regular intake of this kind of tea can contribute to enhancing the function of fat metabolism and to controlling obesity.

Studies were conducted to verify the effect of this kind of tea on the prevention of body fatness. In one study, lab animals were divided into three groups: One was a control group that was given normal feed and water; another was given high-calorie feed containing extra fat and water; while the third group was given the same kind of high-calorie feed but with this kind of tea as a drink. All the animals weighed the same before the experiments but weighed differently six weeks later according to their groups. The two groups of high-calorie-fed animals gained more weight than the control group with the normal feed, and no weight difference was observed between the two groups of high-calorie-fed animals.

But when the fat cells of the two groups of animals were compared, the quantity of the visceral fat and that of the subcutaneous fat of the group of animals that were given Wu-Long tea was smaller than that of the other group. It was also proven that even when animals were given fatty food, if they were also given this kind of tea, they were prevented from becoming obese without any effect on their growth.

In another clinical test, 75 overweight individuals between 22 and 68 years of age were asked to consume a drink made by infusing two packs of this kind of tea in water, once in the morning and once in the afternoon for six weeks. They were also asked to refrain from receiving any dietary treatment or taking any exercise.

Echography sensors were placed at a spot 3 cm to the right of the naval of each of the subjects to measure the thickness of their subcutaneous fat. Compared with readings before the test, the thickness of subcutaneous fat decreased by about 4 mm on average after completion of the study.

In another study published in the August 2003 edition of the Journal of Medical Investigation, scientists from Japan’s University of Tokushima School of Medicine3 found that people who drank two cups a day of this kind of tea experienced 2.5 times greater calorie-burning results than those who drank the same amount of authentic Japanese green tea.

Okuma Nutritionals’ Tea Diet Pills - PolyTeaNx

Author: admin

12 Oct

Okuma Nutritionals introduces an entirely new product  PolyTeaNX Chinese tea pills. These tea diet pills are made from 100% natural Wu-Long weight loss tea extract.

Dozens of clinical studies have found the compounds within Okuma’s Wu-Long tea to have numerous health benefits that may contribute to reducing the risks of certain diseases and the battle of the bulge. The tea benefits nutritionists and doctors have discovered are many, including:

Now, the makers of the original Wu-Long Authentic Premium Chinese Slimming Tea introduce the first diet supplement of its kindOkuma Nutritionals PolyTeaNX Chinese tea pills. This 100% natural, 100% vegan supplement of tea diet pills provides a convenient, highly effective weight loss solution.

The power within one PolyTeaNx capsule contains 425mg of Okuma’s Wu-Long tea leaf extract in highly concentrated natural Chinese tea pills:

  • 85% Polyphenols
  • 60% Catechins
  • 40% EGCG
  • 10% natural caffeine

Okuma’s PolyTeaNx Chinese tea pills are inspired by the key ingredient polyphenol, an antioxidant that rises above other antioxidant supplements, such as vitamins C and E. Clinical evidence has shown polyphenols to increase metabolism while inhibiting fat absorption1, and now they’re available in a convenient capsule with our Chinese tea pills that you can take at anytime when you’re on the go.

Catechins and EGCG have both shown to pack a punch, aiding in weight loss and providing numerous health benefits. In a study overseen by Johns Hopkins University2, the subjects experienced a 12% increase in fat oxidation that continued over a 24-hour period after consuming Oolong tea. You too can experience the metabolism effects found in Okuma’s Wu-Long tea, but in a higher concentration with PolyTeaNx Chinese tea pills.

Recommended Usage of PolyTeaNx Chinese Tea Pills

  • For weight loss, take two capsules once a day.
  • For weight maintenance, take one capsule once a day.

The Debut of Tieguanyin tea drink

Author: admin

9 Oct

In recent years, the main part of Chinese domestic tea beverage market has been occupied by the black tea and green tea beverages.  However, this situation will change soon, for a kind of tea called” Anxi tieguanyin has been off the assembly line for beverage trial production.
 ”The first cross-strait tea industry Exposition”, Tieguanyin tea drinks debut, and won the industry’s highly acclaimed.  “From the trademark registering to the product off the assemble line, and then to the final product package designing was completed, we spent about four months time only.” General manager of the tea industry in Fujian Cai yanghang told reporters.  Has been able so quickly to complete Tieguanyin drink industrial production, Cai said, lies in the determination of the Tieguanyin beverages huge market space forecasts.  “Natural tea beverage industry is definitely the leading direction of beverage industry in the future. The Anxitieguanyin brand has been pretty good shape, but also has a vast tea from Anxi do support very large market potential.”
 
Cai told reporters that in the next year, the 50 million yuan investment in Anxi, will creat two tea drinks assembly.  At the same time, nature has also signed Anxi local mu tea, as a raw material base for Tieguanyin beverage production.
 
Making tea from Anxi Huafu, the prior general manager JIN Dian told reporters in Anxi, a number of enterprises join in tea industry intend to develop in the direction, including his own.  “Obviously, promoting natural and healthy beverages will be the trend of beverage industry development in the near furture. Since now drinking Tieguanyin tea is simple and convenient to many people, the market space is unlimited.”

 

What Is Wu-Long Tea ?

Author: admin

9 Oct

All tea comes from the same species of plant Camellia Sinensis. It is in the fermentation process that produces the many wonderfully different tasting and fragrant teas.

” Wu-long tea has gained much popularity lately because of the many health benefits…”

Wu-Long ( ..or oolong, wulong… don’t get hung up on the two names they are EXACTLY the same tea!) tea is a partially fermented tea which is processed between the black and green tea families. The tea leaves are dried in sunlight and allowed to partially oxidize (20-80%) until leaf edges reddens. This gives oolong a a bit more body than Green tea but slightly less body than Black tea.

Wu-Long is grown in the southern part of China like Taiwan, Guangdong and Fujian.Especially in Fujian where the fame of tea industury was gained for the Wuyi Rock tea all over the world. One of the most famous fields in Fujin where tea of high quality was produced is Anxi.

Demand for Wu-long tea has skyrocketed since 2003 when many of these studies were made public. People from all around the world who had never been aware of these amazing health benefits have been enjoying this refreshing and fragrant tea.

Wu-long tea possess the best qualities of both black and green teas. It has the refreshing qualities of green teas while also has the fragrance of black teas. Reasearchers are discovering that besides increasing your body energy, promoting metabolism and controling obesity, Wu-long tea is tasty and never ceases to lose its appeal no matter how often you drink it.

a friend’s Story with Tea and making Tea as his Business

Author: admin

5 Oct

Here is a story of a friend ,who is the owner of gongfu-tea.com.

“My experience with tea began when I was child. My parents weren’t coffee drinkers at the time, so we always had tea as our hot beverage of choice. I got away from tea about the same time I started attending college. I became a coffee drinker, and continued the habit for nearly fifteen years before I finally isolated it as something which had a negative affect on my energy level. I stopped drinking coffee “cold turkey” and replaced it with common bagged teas – and felt much better as a result. My interest in tea was immediately reinvigorated at that point.

This interest, coupled with a general interest in all things gastronomically wonderful, fused to form a vision for becoming a provider of ultra-high quality loose-leaf teas to other people – people who would respond in the same positive manner to the terrific tastes and healthful aspects of one of the world’s oldest and most widely consumed beverages.

Rusty and I arranged to meet each other in Chicago for a weekend that same September. The purpose of the meeting was to determine what sort of business endeavor we would like to create. After hashing over a few dozen ideas, I mentioned the concept of a high-end teahouse that would cater to the palates of tea enthusiasts here in the United States. After I shared the seminal vision with Rusty, we were both so taken with the notion that we have never yet discussed any of the other business ideas that we had come up with that day. After scouring the third largest city in America for some representative example of our vision and finding only a few quality shops in the entire area, we mutually agreed to establish our presence in the heart of the Midwest.

We wanted to bring quality teas to the people we were familiar with and that we were sure would respond enthusiastically to the realm of teas, if only introduced to them.”

Accroading to him ,since accustomed with drinking tea from youth,when he turned drinking coffee,he got sick in energy.So he  appealed us to change drinking coffee for tea.Not only him,but also hundreds of people have been discovering that tea’s wonderful function in fact.

GongFu tea perpation with Yixing Tea Set

Author: admin

5 Oct

Introduction
The term “GongFu” in Chinese means skillful, and “GongFu” Tea Preparation refers to a method of preparing tea with a Chinese Miniature Tea Set that enhances the enjoyment of the tea experience.

Initial Preparation
Collect clean teapot, tea boat, tea pitcher, teacups, and loose tea. Boil water in a small kettle to the appropriate temperature. Optional equipage: saucers, smelling cups, tea tray, tea funnel, tea utensils, and waste water container.

Heat Equipment
Place teapot in the tea boat. Using the kettle, carefully fill the teapot with hot water. Replace the lid on the top of the teapot and pour hot water over the teapot. Fill all the cups (and smelling cups) with hot water. After everything is heated, dispose of the water in the teapot and cups.

First Steep
Scoop loose tea leaves into the warm teapot. As a general guideline, if the tealeaves are tightly rolled (e.g. Oolong), the leaves should fill a quarter of the teapot. If the tealeaves are not tightly rolled (e.g. Pouchong), the leaves should fill up to one half of the teapot. Experiment to discover the right amount of leaves for your teapot. Pour hot water over the leaves until the teapot is filled. Steep for around one minute. Dry the bottom of the wet teapot with a towel and transfer the brewed tea from the teapot to the tea pitcher.

Optional Step with Smelling Cups
Line up the smelling cups. With the tea from the tea pitcher, fill each smelling cup to approximately 50% capacity. After a couple of seconds, empty the tea from each smelling cup into its matching teacup “partner.” Offer the empty smelling cup to each guest for his or her enjoyment of the aroma of the tea.

First Service
Line up the teacups (with saucers). With the tea from the tea pitcher, fill each teacup to approximately 70% capacity and offer the cup (with saucer) to each guest. Take some time to enjoy the color, fragrance, taste, and aftertaste of the tea, tea set, and the ongoing conversation with friends and family.

Second Steeping
Before the first guest completely consumes his or her cup of tea, reheat the water in the kettle if needed. Pour hot water into the teapot with the same previously steeped leaves. Steep for around one minute and transfer the tea from the teapot into the tea pitcher.

Second Service
Serve the tea from the tea pitcher by refilling each guest抯 cup to about 70% capacity.

Successive Steepings
Reheat water if needed. Pour hot water into the teapot with steeped leaves. Lengthen the steeping time an additional 15-20 seconds for each successive steep (e.g. The third steep would be about 1 minute and 15 seconds. The fourth steep would be about 1 minute and 30 seconds.) The slightly additional steeping time should help to keep consistency in the tea taste without oversteeping. High quality tea leaves should be able to be steeped 4 to 6 times. Transfer the steeped tea into the tea pitcher and serve as before.

In the beginning you may experience some tea or water spillage or be unable to prepare the tea in time before some of the teacups run dry, but with practice and use of “GongFu” tea preparation you will soon experience the enhanced enjoyment of the tea time, tea, and teaset.

 

A Special category of tea :Chinese herbal tea

Author: admin

5 Oct

The reason why the chinese herbal tea wasn’t be classified into the  categories mentioned before is just because its specialty.It is not made of tea plant leaves but with one or several kinds of chinese traditional medicines mixed together.

So,i want to make it a independent subject in my blog here.Like all other common tea ,i will write out the materials and methods to make it and its medical effect on our health,and all other details.

Sorry for my poor english !Wish i could improve it gradually with my blogging!Thanks for coming!

The Categories of Chinese Tea

Author: admin

5 Oct

According to the different methods by which it is processed,Chinese tea may be classified into five categories .

1) Green tea: Green tea is the variety which keeps the original colour of the tea leaves without fermentation during processing. This category consists mainly of Longjing tea of Zhejiang Province, Maofeng of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province and Biluochun produced in Jiangsu.

2) Black tea: Black tea, known as “red tea” (hong cha) in China, is the category which is fermented before baking; it is a later variety developed on the basis of the green tea. The best brands of black tea are Qihong of Anhui , Dianhong of Yunnan, Suhong of Jiangsu, Chuanhong of Sichuan and Huhong of Hunan.

3) Wulong tea: This represents a variety half way between the green and the black teas, being made after partial fermentation. That’s to say,Wulong tea is half-fermentated.It is a specialty from the provinces on China’s southeast coast: Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.One kind of most famous Wulong tea is Dahongpao Tea ,which belongs to a subcategory called Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea.

4) Compressed tea: This is the kind of tea which is compressed and hardened into a certain shape. It is good for transport and storage and is mainly supplied to the ethnic minorities living in the border areas of the country. As compressed tea is black in colour in its commercial form, so it is also known in China as “black tea”. Most of the compressed tea is in the form of bricks; it is, therefore, generally called “brick tea”, though it is sometimes also in the form of cakes and bowls. It is mainly produced in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

5) Scented tea: This kind of tea is made by mixing fragrant flowers in the tea leaves in the course of processing. The flowers commonly used for this purpose are jasmine and magnolia among others. Jasmine tea is a well-known favourite with the northerners of China and with a growing number of foreigners.

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