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Tea on Thursday 14 : Water Feature

What other sort of water feature would you expect to find at a tea plantation?  This tea pot "fountain" is one of the courtyard attractions at the Longjing tea plantation, in Hangzhou, China.  And while most gardens might boast of  a few gnomes or classical statues, here, there is a statue of  a renowned Tang Dynasry tea scholar Yu Lu and of course a few more tea pots leading into the tea tasting rooms.




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