"The special of Tea Roads in Life Monthly in June, 2014 was awarded an outstanding prize for its nice report on life vogue by SOPA (Society of Publication of Asia) and was praised for its fascination, cultural ethos and professional knowledge. Tea Roads, which was added a lot of supplementary materials and revised really and delicately, was line up as special issue. This book is quite different from those of this kind about tea, as it has value of both aesthetics and archives. Indeed, it is a work of profundity, from which we learn that tea-mountains and tea-farmers were interviewed on the spot, the original taste of tea was found and kept and the relationship between human beings and the nature and between life and ecology.Life Monthly is a magazine of cultural interests, giving an account of life and lives, was first published in December, 2005. It looks for the Chinese people’s inner value of life and culture basing on the ideas of “Buddhist doctrine of daily life and the education of life”. Life is a book of art, too, of which the printing conforms to the general norms for creative work, and it is beautiful designed and bound. It contains its accumulation knowledge and experience from the fine tradition of China, and its framework is composed of “heaven, earth, humanity, truth, kindness and beauty”. A series of issues published these years have been awarded prizes for the best feature article and report, the best photography and report and the best design of magazine. The awarded issues are as follows: Again, Take the Road of Liang Sicheng, Dun Huang: Everybody Is Called, Tea Road, Family Letters, China of Folk Art, and so on.On the first day of tea harvest in the spring of 2013, the journalists of Tea Roads began their interview on the tea-mountains and the tea-farmers from Sichuan Province to the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Yunnan, Anhui, Fujian and Taiwan…, spending a whole year on taking careful observations on more than forty tea-mountains, attentively inspecting tea growing environments and tea technological process and investigating of all kinds of tea – blue tea, yellow tea, white tea black tea, flower tea, oolong tea Pu’er tea and dark tea. Tea Roads is a four-colored book with beautiful pictures which were taken by well known photographers, who took them on the spots of tea-mountains and the process of handcraft making. All of them are beautiful and meaningful, full of people’s tension and art representation."

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