A Traditional Longjing Tea Ceremony in China's "Heaven on Earth"

By Monica Suma Every year in early April the Chinese begin to methodically pluck green tea from hills peppered with idyllic terraces. Spring is considered the best time of year to harvest, and once the flowers bloom, so begins the season of tea ceremonies to honor this prized crop. And given I had been in Shanghai for the past few weeks, there was no better time to do the same.