Biluochun originates from the area of East Dongting Mountain and West Dongting Mountain (present-day Wuzhong District, Suzhou) in Taihu Lake, Wu County, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

Biluochun is a traditional Han Chinese tea, one of China's top ten famous teas, belonging to the green tea category, has a history of more than 1,000 years, Biluochun origin is located in Wu County, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Taihu Lake in the East Dongting Mountain and the West Dongting Mountain (today's Suzhou, Wuzhong District) area, so it is also known as the "Dongting Biluochun".

Biluochun belongs to the unfermented green tea, tea nature of the cold, Biluochun production process for the picking, killing, kneading, rubbing the dough to show milli, drying, frying, packaging, the local tea growers described Biluochun as copper wire bars, spiral, hairy, fruity and floral flavor, fresh and refreshing.

Biluochun how to plant?

1, digging planting ditch with enough bottom fertilizer

In the terraces outside the inner or around the orchard, digging planting ditch. Enough width 80-60 centimeters. The bottom of the ditch paved straw 1000 kg / mu, then covered with a layer of soil, and then apply cake fertilizer 200 kg / mu, in addition to the application of compound fertilizer 15 kg / mu. Layers into the planting ditch, fertilizer and soil mix, covered with a layer of topsoil, it is appropriate to complete in January before planting.

2, tea seeds live

Selected sexual seed, tea seeds poured into the container, soaked in water for 2-3 days, change the water once a day. Sinking in the bottom of the water is the better quality of tea seeds, while floating in the water is the specific gravity of small, poor quality or deterioration, rotting tea seeds, should be removed. Tea seed sowing period to the current year in mid-November-December is appropriate, can also be sown in early spring in February-March.

But the winter rubbing than spring sowing early seedlings, seedling rate is high. Before sowing with a hoe according to the standard dig sowing small holes, double rows of planting small row spacing of 40 cm, small hole distance 30 cm; single row planting small hole spacing 20 cm. Sow 3-5 seeds per hole and cover with 3 cm of soil. Then lay down straw, chaff shells, oranges and so on. To maintain water and soil, prevent drought, and improve the seedling rate.

3, cuttings

Cuttings of tea seedlings transplantation time in the spring from early February to mid-March is appropriate. Single row planting 150cm apart, 25-30cm apart. Double row strip planting 25-30 cm, arranged in a triangle. Each hole planted two tea seedlings. Tea seedlings require asexual small-leafed species, seedling height of 30 cm or so, stem thickness of 3 cm or so, with two branches or more, the root system is well developed. Mountain tea farmers generally use nutrient bowl seedling planting, higher survival rate.

Before planting seedlings, the ground is first organized, the soil loose sandy soil with a low ditch planting method, that is, tea seedlings planted in the bed below the ground 5-10 cm, tea seedlings into the ditch side of the mulch, the side of the stamping tightly, so that the roots and the soil are closely combined. Seedlings planted on the same day, the same day to pour the root water, watering the appropriate mulch, planted tea seedlings, immediately after the stereotypes pruning, the height of 15 centimeters.

Then lay straw between the rows. Before the tea seedlings become alive, according to the weather and soil water content, watering every 5-7 days, tea seedlings become alive to remove weeds diligently, to prevent grass barren.

4, picking

Planted after the survival of the first two years of the general purpose of the long tree, to be the third year to see the stability of the tea tree can be appropriate for picking.