Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute, previously known as Lu Yu Tea Art Center, provides education in tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

 arts (including tea marketing, design of tea ware, and tea brewing techniques) and promotes the drinking of tea. It offers certifications in Tea Studies, such as for "Tea Master" (陸羽泡茶師). The institute was founded in Taipei

Taipei

Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

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, in the 1980s. It now has schools in Beijing

Beijing

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, Chengdu

Chengdu

Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...

, and Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

. It is named for Lu Yu

Lu Yu

Lu Yu is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea , the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.-Biography:...

, the 8th-century "sage of tea". While most students are Chinese

China

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 speakers, others come from Japan

Japan

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, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

, and, there are also classes and tea studies cerification in English.

See also

• Tenfu Tea College
  Tenfu Tea College
  Tenfu Tea College is the world's first private vocational college to specialise in the study of the tea industry. It is situated in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, Degrees in the following disciplines are: Tea Production and Processing , Market Prospection and Marketing , Food Processing , Tea Culture ...
  
  
• History of tea in China
  History of tea in China
  The history of tea in China is long and complex. The Chinese have enjoyed tea for millennia. Scholars hailed the brew as a cure for a variety of ailments; the nobility considered the consumption of good tea as a mark of their status, and the common people simply enjoyed its flavor.-Historical...
  
  
• Tenfu Tea Museum
  Tenfu Tea Museum
  Tenfu Tea Museum, in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, was constructed in 2000, and finished in 2002. The museum has a total area of 13 acres. The museum consists of many displays of past tea cultures, tea processing, tea and tea ware, as well as having live tea arts culture performances.-Five...
  
  
• Tea Studies Index
  Tea Studies Index
  -Brief:The following is a Tea Studies Index useful for learning and structuring a foundation for Professional Tea Studies Education System. In the Chinese language, there is a very detailed complete tea studies, terminology, and index, yet English is lack much...