ZhongliaoXianfeng Sun Moon Cave

One man, ten years — a sun and a moon carved into the mountain.

Address｜Xianfengling, Yongfu Village, Zhongliao Township, Nantou County

Illustration of Zhongliao · Xianfeng Sun Moon Cave

The Tea

Longan Blossom Scented Jin Xuan

Longan blossom, delicate and softly sweet, over a smooth Jin Xuan base with a light creaminess; the finish leaves a faint honeyed sweetness and no roasted notes. The longan blossoms are hand-picked before the Qingming Festival for a light, pure fragrance, and the Jin Xuan comes from our own friendly farmland, grown without pesticides. Scented naturally with freshly picked blossoms, then dried in traditional bamboo roasting baskets.

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Brewing

Tea bagTea bag · 3 g · 300 ml

Water95°C

Steep2.5min

Tea bag1 bag · 3 g

Hot water300 ml

Take the bag out on time so the tea doesn’t turn bitter.

The Story

Xianfeng Sun Moon Cave

Starting in 1969, Chen Qing-quan, a villager from Yongfu, chiselled into the rock face of Xianfengling one strike at a time. Ten full years later, in 1979, he had carved out a stone cave about 40 metres long. One side of its mouth looks like a half moon and the other like the sun, so people call it the Sun Moon Cave.

Good things take time. Longan blossoms picked before the Qingming Festival are layered into Jin Xuan, and we wait for their fragrance to settle into the leaves.

The Neighbour

Wildlife around Zhongliao

Crab-eating MongooseUrva urva formosanaCamera traps in Zhongliao’s foothills have photographed the crab-eating mongoose. It likes to stay near streams, hunting crabs and frogs at the water’s edge.

A gentle noteLeave no litter by the stream, and never poison or electro-fish, so the crabs it feeds on stay there too.

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