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Two Anxi Migrations Planted Taipei's Rival Tieguanyin and Pouchong, a Decade Apart

Someone had to carry the cuttings and the wrapping method across the strait from Anxi by hand. Two unconnected groups of migrants did exactly that within about a decade of each other, and planted two rival Fujian-style tea traditions a few miles apart in the hills above Taipei: Muzha's rolled Tieguanyin and Wenshan's barely-rolled pouchong.