West Lake Longjing is one of the top ten famous teas in China and belongs to green tea. It is produced in the mountainous area around Longjing Village, West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, hence its name, with a history of 1200 years. When Qing Qianlong visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, he praised the Longjing tea in the West Lake and named eighteen tea trees in front of Gong Hu Temple under Shifeng Mountain as "Imperial Tea".
West Lake Longjing tea is divided into 1 ~ 8 grades according to its appearance and internal quality. Super West Lake Longjing Tea is flat and smooth in shape, light green and smooth in color, fresh and high in aroma, fresh and sweet in taste and tender and white in leaves. Longjing tea collected in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the past, referred to as Longjing tea before Ming Dynasty, is known as daughter red. The wind outside the courtyard made Muzi laugh, and Longjing tea made her daughter red.
Ethnicity
West Lake Longjing Tea, like the West Lake, is the perfect crystallization of people, nature and culture and an important carrier of the regional culture of the West Lake. West Lake Longjing tea has a long history, which can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty in China. At that time, the famous Cha Sheng Lu Yu wrote the world's first monograph on tea, Tea Classic, which recorded the tea production in Tianzhu and Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.
The name of West Lake Longjing Tea began in the Song Dynasty, which was heard in the Yuan Dynasty, praised in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. In this 1000 years of historical evolution, West Lake Longjing tea began a glorious period from nameless to famous, from ordinary people's after-dinner drinks to tributes of emperors and princes, from famous tea of the Chinese nation to famous products going global.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-West Lake Longjing