The place of origin of Longjing tea is Zhejiang Province.

Hangzhou tea planting, tea production, tea business has a long history, tea base, tea tree varieties, tea and other resources, tea production technology, processing technology, science and technology is strong. Spring tea in the special Xihu Longjing, Zhejiang Longjing shape flat and smooth, seedling sharp cutting, buds longer than the leaves, color and lustre tender green.

Summer and autumn Longjing tea, dark green or dark green color, tea body is larger, the body surface without hair, soup color yellow and bright, there is a fragrance but rougher. Mechanism Longjing tea, the current all multi-functional machine frying, but also a combination of machine and hand-assisted frying. Mechanism Longjing tea shape is mostly stick-shaped flat, less complete, dark green color, under the same conditions than the overall quality of hand-fried poor.

Expanded Information

Longjing tea is an outstanding representative of China's green tea brand, with a long history and excellent quality, recognized as the first of China's top ten famous teas, and is a legally registered geographical indications product.

Longjing tea picking has three major characteristics: one early, two tender, three diligent. Tea farmers often say, "tea is an hour grass, early picking three days is a treasure, late picking three days into grass." Longjing tea is also known for picking tender, fresh leaves tender uniformity constitute the basis of Longjing tea quality. Diligence means picking big and leaving small in batches, picking around 30 batches throughout the year.

On the afternoon of April 11, 2019, the first Longjing Tea Summit was held in Xinchang County, Shaoxing, which was hosted by the China International Tea Culture Research Association, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Zhejiang Province, and the People's Government of Shaoxing City. Representatives of 18 counties and urban industrial authorities from the Xihu producing area, Qiantang producing area and Yuezhou producing area of Longjing tea, experts from relevant units of industry, academia and research, and representatives of well-known tea production and management enterprises attended the meeting.

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