Jasmine Tea: The Chinese Name and a Fuzhou Example

茉莉花茶 is the Mandarin name for jasmine tea.

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A documented cultural example#

A Xinhua photo report records a demonstration of Fuzhou jasmine-tea making during a tea-culture event on 21 May 2023. This is evidence of that event, not a promise of a daily visitor demonstration.

Questions when ordering#

Ask which base tea and scenting process the product uses. Check whether a packaged drink has other ingredients or sweeteners. For a workshop visit, confirm the current schedule and what participants actually do.

Sources and lexical-data licence#

Context reference. Naming and reading are adapted from CC-CEDICT contributors, distributed by MDBG, release dated 23 October 2026, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Dictionary release.