National Tea Geography 2026 Tea Season | Seeking You to Spread the Fragrance of Tea Together

A cup of tea holds the spirit of mountains and rivers, as well as the time of the artisan.

You guard the tea mountains in the morning mist, watch over the embers of charcoal fires, and condense the seasons into fresh leaves. Yet this devotion is often trapped behind the wall of “only to be felt, not explained.” The secret codes of your land, tea drinkers can’t grasp; the craft you pour your heart into, young people can’t remember.

In Shenzhen, countless people long for a good cup of tea, but are shut out by vague terms like “tea charm” or “mountain aura.” Those who want to drink can’t find it, and those who want to sell can’t break through. This gap between the tea mountains and the city needs someone to build a bridge.

From the tea garden to the cup, it’s a long journey.

As a vertical IP for the tea industry under Chinese National Geography, we hold onto the original intention of “decoding Chinese tea through geographic genes” and want to be that bridge builder.

Over several years, following the logic of food science and combining tens of thousands of professional tasting data, we’ve refined an exclusive “Tea Flavor Wheel” system. It’s not another set of obscure rules, but an intuitive key—breaking down the ever-changing tea tastes into 8 main flavors and 24 sub-flavors, turning mysterious tea flavors into a language everyone can understand and remember after one sip.

In the 2026 tea season, we’re bringing this key into Shenzhen.

With a scientific attitude and life experience, we’re building a bridge between tea and people.

We’re creating an immersive tea flavor science exhibition in a cultural space.

This exhibition is a taste map that follows your palate.

8 main flavors and 24 sub-flavors, matching various teas.

No obscure tea classifications, no difficult professional thresholds. The entire exhibition uses the flavor wheel as its thread, clearly dividing the hall into 8 exclusive tasting zones. Your tea will be placed in the most suitable zone based on its characteristics, with a unique taste label. Let every visitor follow the taste guide to find their preferred cup.

Zoned areas help consumers quickly and intuitively understand a cup of tea.

Inside each zone, we’ve created immersive flavor science scenes: walls display visual explanations of the flavor wheel principles, showing the origin of flavors; the floor has clear flavor guides to help you locate quickly. Here, every tea comes with a complete flavor profile card, detailing its taste characteristics, regional terroir, and craft highlights.

Let tea drinkers not only savor the taste but also understand the full story behind a cup of tea.

From February 10 to 16, 2026, at the Futian Spring Festival Flower Market, the exhibition attracted over 100,000 visitors.

This time, we’re looking for those who make tea as seriously as we do.

Whether you’re a tea company rooted in the mountains, a craft studio preserving intangible heritage techniques, or a tea brand refining niche teas—as long as you have proper food production/operation qualifications, your tea meets national food safety standards, is distinctive, stable in quality, and traceable—you’re welcome to sign up.

We’ll strictly control the number of teas with the same flavor, so your craftsmanship isn’t lost in homogenized competition, and every unique tea gets precisely noticed.

Let your craftsmanship be seen by more people.

In 2026, we’re in Shenzhen, with tea as the medium and taste as the key, waiting for the wind, and waiting for you.

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Writer | Zheng Honglong

Layout | Zheng Honglong

Design | Tang Yutao

Reviewer | Gao Yuan

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