West lake longjing tea
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West lake longjing tea
Category: green tea.
Origin: Mountain area around Longjing Village, West Lake, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
Taste: fresh and sweet.
Efficacy: antibacterial, diuretic, fat-reducing, cancer-preventing.
Storage: keep it dry and sealed, avoid direct sunlight, and prevent it.
Extrusion is the most basic requirement for storing West Lake Longjing.
West lake longjing tea
West Lake Longjing Tea is famous for its green, fragrant, sweet and beautiful.
Super West Lake Longjing Tea is flat, smooth and straight in shape, uniform in size and length, light green and smooth in color, fresh and high in aroma, fresh and sweet in taste, and tender and smooth as flowers at the bottom of leaves.
When the tea leaves are brewed in a glass, the leaves are tender and even, one flag and one gun are staggered, and the tea soup is clear and beautiful.
Longjing tea collected in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, referred to as Longjing tea in front of Ming Dynasty, is known as daughter red. "The wind outside the hospital laughs, and Longjing Tea is bright and her daughter is red." Beautiful sentences are picturesque, which is a wonderful portrait of Longjing tea in West Lake.
Famous mountains, temples, lakes, springs and teas are integrated, and brewing a cup of Longjing tea is a unique and impressive Longjing tea culture that is rare in the world.
The Legend of Longjing Tea in West Lake
According to legend, Emperor Qianlong soon swam to Hangzhou, dressed in disguise, and came to Gong Hu Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing Village.
The monks in the temple took out the lion peak Longjing and let them drink it. After drinking it, they felt fragrant and mellow, so they went to pick tea by themselves.
As he hurried back to Beijing, he could only put the picked tea leaves in his pocket. After returning to Beijing, the tea buds have been squashed, but the aroma still exists, which won the appreciation of the Queen Mother.
Therefore, Qianlong named this kind of tea "Imperial Tea", and every year local tea farmers would fry tea for the Queen Mother to enjoy.
History of West Lake Longjing Tea
West Lake Longjing tea has a long history. It began a thousand years before the Song Dynasty, was heard in a thousand yuan, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty.
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Longjing tea was initially formed. At that time, the "Xianglin Tea" and "Baiyun Tea" produced by Lingyin were already tributes.
The quality of Longjing tea in Yuan Dynasty was improved, and the scenery around Longjing was quiet. Many tea lovers will get together to taste tea.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that West Lake Longjing began to be drunk by ordinary people. After tasting, everyone praised the West Lake Longjing, which made it famous all over the world.
Needless to say, in the Qing Dynasty, Ganlong visited the south of the Yangtze River six times and came to the Longjing Tea District of the West Lake four times to watch, taste and write poems.
Since then, West Lake Longjing Tea has enjoyed a good reputation at home and abroad.
Why are the top ten famous teas?
First, as mentioned above, West Lake Longjing has a long history. West Lake Longjing is a kind of tea with cultural connotation.
Second, the output of West Lake Longjing in the main production area of West Lake Longjing is very small, which naturally becomes extremely precious.
Third, the producing areas are beautiful, misty, wet and sunny. The unique Baisha tea garden has created the unique floral fragrance and taste of West Lake Longjing.
Generally speaking, the main reason is that the quality of tea is good, with a small amount of precious tea and the blessing of history and culture, West Lake Longjing has become the first famous tea in China.
Classification of Longjing producing areas in West Lake
West Lake Longjing is divided into primary production areas and secondary production areas.
The primary producing areas include the traditional five core producing areas of "lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum", and the secondary producing area is Longjing in Xihu District except the primary producing area.
"Lion" is the lion peak Longjing produced in Longjing and Shifeng areas, which is slightly yellow in color and is known as "brown rice color".
"Dragon" is produced in Longjing and Wengjiashan.
"Cloud" refers to Longjing, Yun Qi, which is produced in Yun Qi and Wuyunshan.
"Tiger" is the Tiger Run Longjing, which is produced in the Tiger Run area.
"Mei" is a Meiwu Longjing produced in meijiawu, with beautiful appearance, smoothness and green color.
Longjing before Ming Dynasty &; Yuqian Longjing
The main difference between Longjing before Ming Dynasty and Longjing before Rain is the different picking time.
Longjing is picked before Qingming, before rainy days, after Qingming and before Grain Rain.
Due to the low temperature and limited germination before Qingming, the overall output of tea before Qingming is scarce, so the price will be more expensive. After the Qingming Festival, the tea tree germinated quickly and the output was large, so the price naturally came down.
The tea soup before tomorrow is more mellow; Tea soup before rain is slightly bitter, but tea before rain is rich in nutrition.