taken in Southern China. The so-called ?mouth lip tea? comes from a legend that tea leaves used to be picked by fairy maidens with their mouths. When boiling water is poured onto these tea leaves, fairy maidens will ascend amidst steam into the sky. Tea made from these leaves has refreshing aroma and taste and can even cure diseases. It is also said chat at the beginning of the last century, some Chinese tea sellers experimented with the idea of ?tea in front of breasts.? Virgins at the age of 16 were asked to start picking leaves in the middle of the night and put leaves into their clothes between their breasts. When they finished their work before sunrise, the leaves should have absorbed enough of the virgins? body scent, and could make great tea. This practice phased out even before it ever had the chance to become widespread.