On an old street in Shaxi, Yunnan, tea steams behind a wooden doorway. Welcome to Changshou Tea House.
Tea at its source
Tea is easier to understand when you know the garden and the people behind it. Gu Rui and Luo Bo return to the same villages year after year, staying through the harvest to craft each batch with the growers, from fresh leaf to finished tea. They follow the leaf and the season, so the character of a good garden remains clear in the cup.
The tea collection
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White tea is simple on paper—mostly withering and drying—which makes the leaf and the timing all the more visible. Changshou’s whites range from bright, floral Silver Needle to old-tree cakes that grow rounder and more honeyed with time.
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The Pu’er collection moves from young raw teas made in forest gardens to ripe teas that have had years to settle after fermentation. Different as they are, both begin with Yunnan large-leaf tea and are chosen with an eye to what time may bring.
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Yunnan black tea can be generous without being heavy. Changshou’s include sun-dried teas and tiny lots from wild tea trees, made to keep their fruit, flowers and sweetness clear rather than cover them with roast.
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These oolongs come from Qingxin plants growing high in the forests of Wuliang Mountain. The leaf is Yunnan; the making draws on Taiwanese oolong traditions. Some lots are gently roasted, others given a deeper charcoal roast, while leafhopper-bitten tea develops the honeyed fragrance associated with Oriental Beauty.
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Clay & fire
In her Shaxi studio, Luo Bo makes tea vessels by hand. Playful, sculptural, and often unexpected, each piece brings a distinct presence to the tea table.
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Changshou began in 2015 in a dark twelve-square-metre shop in Shaxi. Master Yang helped turn the room into a tea house; over the years, tea-making trips, Luo Bo’s pottery, books, friends, dogs and cats made it the centre of a much larger life.
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Film · 普洱生茶的诞生
Journal
Tea journeys, village lives, pottery, animals, and the small events that shaped Changshou.
A numbered diary of encounters, dreams, work, friendships and tea journeys from Changshou’s early years in Shaxi.
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The numbered diary continues through meditation, tea mountains, pottery, animals, village life, illness, grief and friendship.
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An essay on the beginnings of the tea room, learning Yunnan tea in the mountains, and the way tea became part of a larger search for how to live.
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