Tag: tea

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• The Tea Port: How Hankou Fueled the World's Tea Habit for 40 Years

  9 Aug, 2026

  In the 1860s, Hankou was the largest tea port on Earth. Russian merchants, brick tea factories, and 300,000 tea porters moved millions of pounds through Wuhan to London and Moscow. A local traces the vanished trade routes, the buildings that remain, and why nobody in Wuhan drinks the tea anymore.