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It is billed as the most refined tea in the world, and possibly with some justification – the leaves are picked by a group of virgins using just their lips.
The leaves, gathered on lush mountainsides in central China, must be in their first flush and are dropped into baskets hanging from the pickers’ necks.
Legend has it that the leaves used to be picked by fairies with their mouths. When boiling water is poured on the leaves, fairies ascend amid the steam into the sky.
Now new pickers are being sought, with adverts in Gushi, Henan province, specifying that ‘applicants must be virgins’ and offering payment of £50 a day, a fortune in China.
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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H
at 01:39 MEST
