Chinese Tea: Stories of a Green Leaf

Written by Feng Xu

Illustrated by Wang Yuwei

China Friendship Publishing Company

January 2019

49.80 (CNY)

Feng Xu

Feng Xu, tutor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) picture book creation studio, graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelors degree and a masters degree from CAFA and has participated in a wide range of exhibitions and art activities at home and abroad.

Wang Yuwei

Wang Yuwei, who graduated from the picture book creation studio of CAFA, won the gold medal in the Key Colors Creation Competition in 2017 for his picture book work “First Snow” (later renamed “Mr. Cat and the Little Man”).

This book illustrates a series of poetic pictures of tea production, such as tea picking, tea spreading (in preparation for the withering of the tea leaves), roasting tea, kneading, and tea making. In this book, readers can attain a feeling of the natural world, inspire a love for nature, and get to know the profound Chinese culture through tea.