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Tea grading terminology
tea grades
also: фучанский, кяхтинский, байховый
Real Russian tea-trade grading and origin vocabulary -- Foochow (fuchansky), Kyakhta (kyakhtinsky), and baikhovy (loose-leaf) -- naming the Chinese port of origin, the Russo-Chinese border town through which caravan tea passed, and the loose-leaf grade as distinct from pressed brick tea.
Reading notes
- The Writer §15 первосборных весенних чаев
"First-picked spring teas" (pervosbornye vesennie chai) invokes the real grading vocabulary of the tea trade, where the earliest spring harvest commanded premium prices; Yershakov's scheme is to fraudulently claim old stock as this year's prized early picking.
- The Writer §16 фучанским, кяхтинским и байховым чаям
Foochow (fuchan), Kyakhta, and baikhovy (loose-leaf, unpressed) name real tea-trade categories: Foochow for the Chinese port of origin, Kyakhta for the Russo-Chinese border town through which caravan tea passed, and baikhovy as the standard Russian term distinguishing loose tea from brick tea.
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