Learn Tea & Tea Ceremony in Hangzhou / Fujian

Honest level: Beginner -> Tea Master — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Educational Tea Tour - Wu Yi Shan

A small-group educational tour in the UNESCO-listed Wu Yi Shan, the home of rock tea (yan cha), offered as a 6-day or 10-day program with English translation throughout. Days mix a tea-history foundation course, terroir hikes into famed gorges (Jiu Long Ke, Niu Lan Keng), hands-on tea processing with local masters, and structured tea-evaluation workshops led by national-level evaluators, alongside temple visits and teaware study. The 10-day extension adds further terroir sites, Zen tea practice and producer meetings. For tea enthusiasts wanting to read terroir in the cup at the source.

Next sessions: 2026-11-02

At-the-source, multi-day small-group immersion in rock-tea terroir with hands-on processing and evaluation taught by national-level Chinese tea experts.

~$7,600

Why Tea Drunk

Tea Drunk's Wu Yi Shan program is an annual hands-on educational tea tour led by founder Shunan Teng, who is the educator behind the TED-Ed lesson "The History of Tea" and has lectured at Yale and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and who harvests and makes Yan Cha (cliff tea) alongside heritage farmers in the region each spring.

Schools in Hangzhou / Fujian

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Tea Drunk
  Educational Tea Tour - Wu Yi Shan
  A small-group educational tour in the UNESCO-listed Wu Yi Shan, the home of rock tea (yan cha), offered as a 6-day or 10-day program with English translation throughout.
  https://www.teadrunk.com/products/educational-tea-tour-wu-yi-shan
• China Agricultural University tea programs
  Chinese agricultural universities offer formal Tea Science programs covering tea cultivation, chemistry, sensory evaluation and tea culture, with Zhejiang University in Hangzhou among the institutions running such degree-level programs.
• Anxi / Wuyi tea master apprenticeships
  On-site learning of oolong picking and processing with tea masters in the Wuyi Mountains and Anxi (Fujian)
  In Fujian's Wuyi Mountains and Anxi county, tea masters produce charcoal-roasted rock oolong (yancha) and Anxi oolong and take on learners to teach traditional picking and processing at the source, though access is arranged grower-by-grower rather than through a single school.
  https://www.wuyiorigin.com/
• Hangzhou tea sommelier courses (Longjing)
  Longjing tea picking, pan-roasting and tasting immersion with heritage-master instruction near West Lake
  Around West Lake in Hangzhou, the Longjing (Dragon Well) villages of Meijiawu and Longjing offer hands-on immersions where visitors pick leaves, learn pan-roasting from intangible-heritage masters and taste the result.
  https://www.klook.com/en-US/activity/140299-hangzhou-longjing-village-green-tea-picking-making-tasting/

The credential

Tea Master / Chado certificate (Urasenke lineage); Tea Sommelier certification · Certifying body: Urasenke / Omotesenke schools (JP) / China Tea Master grading

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Tea & Tea Ceremony

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.