Maintaining one’s skin isn’t primarily done through skin care, but through hydration and a healthy diet. Following my article on Chinese beauty tricks and my trip last year to China, I learnt the importance of drinking green tea. It’s true it doesn’t have the greatest flavor, but its effects are astounding.
“While most of Asia is known for its heavily tea drinkers, China is by far one of the biggest consumers of green tea, the most popular one. The benefits are indeed tremendous for one’s health; it has rich antioxidants, it helps with digestion hence losing weight, and it is easily available to common man. Hot or cold (mainly hot, even in hot humid weather), the Chinese drink it a lot, almost exclusively.”
Growing up, my father drank a lot of tea. We had a ritual each night of me preparing tea for him; but it was never green tea. Added to that, I never was big on tea, I definitely inherited my mother’s love of coffee. More recently, however, I started enjoying ginseng, roiboos and peppermint tea. Thus, I have pushed myself to also cultivate the habit of drinking tea. I bought this fresh green tea last year from Hangzhou, and I have been drinking it ever since, in the below Chinese porcelain cups. I saw the tea villages myself, and participated in a tea ceremony, informative in how to preserve the properties of green tea.
