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What kind of tea is Longjing?
Longjing tea belongs to green tea and does not ferment. Mainly produced in the mountainous areas around the West Lake Scenic Area in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is made by picking one bud and one leaf, one bud and two leaves as raw materials, spreading, cleaning pot, moistening, sieving two green leaves, steaming pot, sieving dry tea, making long heads, stacking, storing and collecting dust. The finished tea is flat and smooth, with rich bean flavor and fresh and sweet taste.

Longjing tea is a specialty of Zhejiang province and a symbolic product of chinese national geography. Super 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.

brief introduction

Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Hangzhou tea culture was on the rise. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the economy and culture on both sides of Qiantang River gradually developed, Lingyin Temple was built, and religious activities such as Buddhism and Taoism gradually prevailed, and the West Lake was gradually developed. Tea was planted and spread with the establishment of Taoist temple.

After the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Sui Dynasty, due to the convenient land and water transportation, Hangzhou became a "rich city" with scattered products in Southeast China, and the prosperity of Hang Cheng in Tang Dynasty began to appear. At this time, tea was widely planted in Hangzhou.