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wuxuanbaqi (Wu3 Xuan3 Ba1 Qi4) = (五选八弃 or 五選八棄) literally Five Chooses Eight Discards: traditional standard for selecting
gongcha
raw material, at least in
Yunnan
as it came under Chinese sway, where the 5 chooses were the day to pick leaves, the time of day in terms of 12 2-hour periods, the
chashan
, the tea leaves, and the stems; and the 8 discards were lack of bud, leaf too small, leaf too large, bud too thin, bud crooked, color pale, eaten by insects, and color purple
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