Longjing tea is the best tea in the world because of its green color, beautiful appearance and mellow taste. Its unique and peerless appearance and the extraordinary quality of "lightness and distance" and "Qing Xiang" are unique among many famous teas, ranking first among the top ten famous teas in China.
3. Longjing tea picking has three characteristics: early, tender and diligent. Tea farmers often say: "Tea is seasonal grass. It is a treasure to pick it three days early and turn it into grass three days later. " Longjing tea is also famous for its delicate picking, and the tenderness and uniformity of fresh leaves constitute the basis of Longjing tea quality. Diligence refers to picking in batches, and picking about 30 batches throughout the year.
4. There are ten techniques in traditional Longjing frying: throwing, shaking, riding, fanning, _, throwing, grasping, pushing, buckling and grinding. Different qualities of tea have different frying processes. Due to the differences in ecological conditions and frying technology, West Lake Longjing is divided into five categories: lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum.
5. Super Longjing tea is flat, smooth and straight in appearance, light green and smooth in color, fresh and high in aroma, fresh and sweet in taste and tender and white in leaves.
6. Super West Lake Longjing and Zhejiang Longjing in spring tea have flat and smooth appearance, sharp seedlings, longer buds than leaves, light green color and no fuzz on the body surface; The soup is light green (yellow) and bright; Fragrant or tender chestnut fragrance, but some teas are highly fragrant; The taste is refreshing or mellow; The leaves are light green and intact. With the decline of other grades of Longjing tea, the appearance color changed from light green to turquoise and dark green, the tea body changed from small to large, and the tea strips changed from smooth to rough. The fragrance changed from tender to thick, and the fourth-grade tea began to have a rough taste; The bottom of the leaves changed from tender buds to sandwich leaves, and the color changed from light yellow-turquoise-yellow brown. Longjing tea in summer and autumn is dark green or dark green in color, with large body and no fuzz on the body surface. The color of the soup is Huang Liang, fragrant and thick, thick and slightly astringent, with bright yellow leaves. The overall quality is much worse than that of spring tea of the same level. At present, machine-made Longjing tea is fried by multi-functional machine, and also by combination of machine and manual assistance. Machine-made Longjing tea is mostly rod-shaped, incomplete, dark green in color, and the overall quality is worse than that of manual frying under the same conditions.
7. Zhejiang Longjing tea is divided into super grade and grade 1 to grade 5, with a total of 6 grades.