Chinese tea Longevity Sprout, Eternal Spring Jade Leaf, Dragon in the Clouds, Longevity Dragon Sprout, Dragon Phoenix and Flower, and Eternal Spring Silver Sprout. The Ming Dynasty scholar Wen Zhenheng's encyclopedic book "Zhang Wu Zhi" (; Treatise on Superfluous Things), volume 12, contains the following descriptions of several famous Ming Dynasty teas: During this time, Huqiu tea (; lit. "Tiger Hill tea"), not to be confused with the black tea of the same name from the Nilgiris District in what is now Tamil Nadu, India) was purportedly developed as the finest tea in the world; however, the production quantity was rather small,
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy if the introduction, tables, and end notes are not included. Part I is "Rethinking The Chinese Language." Parts II and III, "Rethinking Chinese Characters" and "Demythifying Chinese Characters," deal with hanzi. Part IV is "Chinese Language Reform," including DeFrancis's opinions what would happen if the misconceptions about Chinese continue. A. Ronald Walton of the University of Maryland, College Park wrote that the titles indicate that the book uses the approach of presenting facts as "counterfacts" to misconceptions about Chinese. About 201 of the pages, about 80% of the book, deal with Chinese writing. Part II, Part III, and much of