Journal — Yunnan RSS

Never have we found such a pure reflection of ourselves, in the words of someone else. We wish to thank the whole team of Magnifissance, and especially writer Jared Pearman, for this heartfelt portrait of our story. The elegance in the aesthetics of all their articles can only be surpassed by the beauty of their words, and we are thankful for having the possibility of being featured in their last issue. Our love for tea and our land is vivid between each line, beginning from the introduction: "Atop a mountain in southern China grows a wild tea forest stewarded by a husband and wife whose love for the land is only exceeded by their love for each other—and maybe their love of...

Our 2020 Harvest as seen by the eyes of Micheal Boym, a Jesuit missionary on a journey through the wildest part of China, and through the words of his visual masterpiece, Flora Sinensis.

Natural phenomena and human activity shape our climate and the outcomes of our harvest. These first few months of 2020 have experienced one of the most severe droughts of the decade. This article explains in detail how this situation affects the tea trees of Xishuangbanna, and why we should all take action and fight to protect our precious tea leaves.

In a world that seems frozen in time, nature didn’t stop its course: let's see together what're our expectations about the the new harvest that is yet to come.