First of all, let’s talk about the background of tangerine peel cultivation in the past 30 years: “In the 1990s, due to the outbreak of Huanglongbing, the Xinhui tangerine (tangerine peel) industry almost suffered a disaster (by 1996, The planting area dropped sharply to 0.07 million acres). Until recent years, the planting area of ??Xinhui tangerines has been increasing. The planting area increased from 3000 acres in 2007 to 5000 acres in 2010. In 2011, the planting area of ??Xinhui tangerines increased to 8000 acres. In 2013, it increased to nearly 20,000 acres. With so many practitioners making tangerine peel, isn’t it worthy of our suspicion that you still have so much old tangerine peel? ”
Nowadays, there are many rich people, and there are There are also many people who like to pretend to be fake when they have money. In the north, they are commonly known as "pretentious criminals". When they enter a tea shop, all they ask is: "Do you have old tea?" "Do you have 20-year-old tangerine peel?" If you say no, he will look disdainful... When I usually meet this kind of people, I will be direct. Please go out, for fear of spoiling my cup of good tea. But people like me who are not polite are in the minority after all. Most bosses will offer tea and water with shameful expressions and continue to entertain them warmly, hoping that they will be influenced to lower their standards and buy some products of lower vintages. Some bosses will not meet with them at all. He said with a change of heart: "Of course!" Then he rummaged through the box and took out the treasured "old tea and old leather" and explained them in detail. In the end, everyone was happy - the boss made a huge profit, and it was just a matter of vanity to pretend to be B. I also got great satisfaction...
After the production of Erhongpi this year, my partner spent two days going to the village, relying on the advantage of being born and raised, to look for old tangerine peel among the people. In 1992 I found 15 pieces (about 70 grams), more than 200 grams in 2003, 100 grams in 2013... Anyway, the total amount is only about 500 grams. It can be seen that in core production areas like Tangkak, the private stock is also Extremely rare.
In this case, why is the market still filled with a large number of "old tangerine peel" that is more than ten or twenty years old? And what about the brand, the packaging, and the qualifications? I can't answer such a profound question accurately, I can only give an example - immortality has everything, but there is no real vaccine!
Today, people’s hearts are impetuous, money is omnipotent, impetuous heart + omnipotent money = everything is possible! But it also means that everything can be faked!
Save some fresh tangerine peel. When the fresh tangerine peel is placed in front of you, even if you are color blind, you can still tell whether it has spots, mildew, whether it is thin and dry; you can also smell it , what you smell should be a fresh fruity aroma rather than a pungent fruity smell, and there will be no smell of disinfectant; you can also soak it in a soup, the sweet taste is a little bit bitter, and the soup color is yellow-green (green skin) ) or Huangliang (Dahongpi and Erhongpi), the taste gradually becomes lighter and lighter as the brewing continues... In this way, you can be sure that it is basically "Guangdong Chenpi".
In those days, tangerine peel could not be used immediately. It had to wait for at least one year before boiling water for soup. It also took three years to call it tangerine peel, allowing it to change from cold to neutral and then warm. properties, allowing it to gradually increase its nutritional and medicinal properties after aging naturally, allowing its collection value to increase with the years...
The last thing I want to solemnly explain is: tangerine peel is the wisdom of our ancestors. Any changes in the craftsmanship created can be regarded as driven by interests. The tangerine peel must be prepared in ancient ways and follow tradition, following the setting of the season and the emergence of the sun, without any "improvement". Our ancestors once left us many rich heritages, but now many of them have disappeared. It is precisely because we, the descendants who think we are "smart", have gradually lost them in the constant "improvement"!
Let us take good care of the tangerine peel in our hands, let it receive more than two sunshine baths every year (spring and autumn), and wait for it to grow old with us...