Where is the Red Jade? The Black Tea Scented Land of Yuchi County

摘要

Yuchi County in Nantou, famous for the beauty of Sun Moon Lake, in addition to its beautiful mountain village scenery and booming tourism, has another prominent industry; Black Tea.Surrounded by mountains and the influence ofthe lake climate, Yuchi village has become a natural choice for tea. In the 1920s, the Japanese introduced Assam black tea to Yuchi and in 1936 founded the "Taiwan Government's Central Offices for the Black Tea Research Institute" that is, the current tea improvement standards for black tea production were laid in Yuchi, thus beginning the history for the first 100 years of Black Tea cultivation in Taiwan.