One of the ten most famous teas in China. What is the tea that was once named Imperial Tea by Gan Long?8.19Ant Manor Today's Answer

Today's Question:Which tea, one of the ten most famous teas in China, was once called "Imperial Tea" by Gan Long?

Correct Answer:West Lake Longjing

1. West Lake Longjing mainly refers to a kind of fried green tea produced in the West Lake scenic area of Hangzhou, China Longjing area. It is famous for its "color, aroma, taste and shape". It is one of the most famous green teas in China, and has the reputation of "painting is better than enjoying painting, and reciting poetry is better than reciting poetry".

2. Lu Yu, a tea scholar in the Tang Dynasty, recorded in the tea scripture that "Qiantang Tianzhu Lingyin two temples produce tea". Qiantang is the ancient name for Hangzhou, and Tianzhu Temple and Lingyin Temple are both located on the low hills west of West Lake.

3. After examining the evidence, Su Shi, known, Hangzhou people, Song Dynasty, that the tea produced by Tianzhu Temple was brought to Hangzhou from Tiantai Mountain by the poet Xie Lingyun in the Southern Dynasty, more than four hundred years.

4. Yu Ji, a poet of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote "Touring Longjing", praising the tea produced in Longjing at that time, which includes the verse "When I cook the golden buds, I don't take the two or three seeds after the rain, and I can't bear to wash them after the three swallows".

5. Ming Wanli nineteen years, the "thing beads" listed more than 90 kinds of famous tea in China at that time, of which Longjing ranked 21st. This shows that Xihu Longjing has already had a certain degree of popularity.

6. Xihu Longjing is a kind of green tea, which is one of the ten famous teas in China. It is produced in the mountainous area around the West Lake Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, hence its name. When Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the West Lake in Hangzhou, he praised the West Lake Longjing tea and named the eighteen tea trees in front of the Gongdo Temple under Shifeng Mountain as "Imperial Tea".