The tribulations of the Cultural Revolution effectively brought tea drinking and tea growing to a halt in China. "When you don't have enough to eat and have to choose between a bag of rice and a bag of tea," posits Chen, "which do you take?"
但文化大革命後，中國幾千年的茶文化產生斷層，「吃不飽的時代，一袋米、一袋茶，你要啥？」