What Is Gunpowder Tea?
Gunpowder tea is green tea that is rolled into small pellets resembling the gunpowder pellets that were used in earlier times to load into cannons. The tea precedes cannons in origin, and the way it is made dates back to approximately the 7th century CE, during the Tang Dynasty rule in China. In China, gunpowder tea is known by several different names, like pinyin, and zhu cha, and is principally manufactured in the Southeastern province of Zhejiang.
