Pre-rain tea refers to the tea leaves picked during the period from Qingming to Guyu every year.

Because of the rapid growth of the buds and leaves, which contain more substances, it has a strong flavor and is very resistant to brewing. Rainy day tea belongs to the top of the tea, and Mingqian tea is the best tea, Mingqian tea, as the name suggests, is the annual Qingming Festival before the picking of the tea.

The rainy tea refers to the tea leaves picked after the Qingming Festival and before the rainy season every year, that is, from April 5 to April 20 or so, during this period of time, the temperature rises, the buds and leaves on the tea tree grow faster, and the accumulated contents are more, so the tea brewed out of the flavor is fresh and strong and is very resistant to brewing.

The rainy tea is not as tender as the pre-mingming tea (tea picked before the Qingming Festival), but because of the high temperature at this time, the buds and leaves grow relatively fast, and the accumulated contents are also richer, so the rainy tea tends to be fresh and strong and resistant to brewing.

Ming Dynasty Xu Zishu in the "tea sparse" about the tea season, said: "Qingming is too early, too late in the summer, before and after the rain, the time is right". This is a common fried green tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, after the Qingming, before the rain, is indeed the most suitable time to pick spring tea. It is said that, in terms of time, pre-mingming tea is the best of the tea, and pre-rain tea is the best of the tea.

Chinese lunar calendar is every 15 days for a festival, about March 5 or so is the "hibernation", March 20 or so is the "spring equinox", April 5 or so is the "Qingming Around April 5 is the "Ching Ming", around April 20 is the "Gu Yu", and around May 5 is the "Lixia". Ancient agricultural production has always been to the festival for the guidance of agricultural arrangements.

Tea production is the same, early varieties often in the "hibernation" and "spring equinox" when the beginning of the buds, the tea before the Qingming Festival known as the Mingqian tea, before the rainy season of the tea is called the rainy tea. Before the rain is the short form of the pre-Guyu Festival, before the rain is after the Qingming Festival, before the Guyu Festival, after April 5 to April 20 or so to pick with the tender buds made of tea is called Yuqian tea.