Jintan Bird's Tongue belongs to green tea.

Jintan Bird's Tongue is one of the green tea varieties. The place of production is located in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Jintan District, Fanglu Tea Farm. Shaped like a bird's tongue and named, is a flat fried green tea. Jintan sparrow tongue for the newly created tea, belongs to the green tea category. Created in 1982. Produced in Jintan City, the main production area for the Fanglu tea field.

Jintan Bird's Tongue tea appearance flat and showy, like a bird's tongue, tea strip uniform, green color; internal quality aroma is high, chestnut fragrance obvious and lasting, soup color is bright, taste fresh and crisp, the bottom of the leaf is tender and even. Jintan Bird's Tongue tea has become the only one in Jiangsu Province to pass the dual certification of pollution-free food, organic tea products, is listed as one of Jintan's six agricultural specialty industries.

Craft Characteristics

Jintan Bird's Tongue Tea is made by unique hand frying technology and advanced mechanized processing technology. In the fresh leaf picking stage, Jintan Bird's Tongue Tea starts to pick every year before and after the Qingming Festival. Picking standards are based on buds and a bud and a leaf at the beginning of the show, the special grade tea is based on buds, requiring bud length below 3 cm, 2.5 cm or so, frying 500 grams of special grade Jintan Bird's Tongue Tea requires 40-45,000 buds.

The requirements for fresh leaf picking are strict, emphasizing tenderness, freshness, uniformity and purity. The buds and leaves are required to achieve tenderness and uniformity, consistent color and luster, do not pick purple buds and leaves, disease and insect hazards, picking back the fresh leaves into the factory should be evenly spread on the bamboo plaques, and should be finely picked, remove the fish leaves, monoliths, etc., and non-tea inclusions, placed in a ventilated and cool place, thinly spread for 4-5 hours, light evaporation of water, to promote the inner quality of the light transformation, to improve the quality.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Jintan Bird's Tongue