It is said that in 20 17 years, the original ecological agriculture professional cooperative in Defulai, Hunan Province invested1288,000 yuan to make oriole bud tea in his hometown in full swing. Looking at the prosperity of Shenzhen, several tea merchants always ask me: How to process fresh oriole buds? How to kill fresh oriole buds? How to eat fresh oriole buds? I think of my hometown, Zuo Li Village, Lianyuan City (formerly Zuowan Village), and it will be time to make oriole bud tea in a few months.
To make oriole bud tea, you must make preparations in the autumn of the previous year. I remember when I was a child, we went up the mountain to collect loose wool. Whenever maple leaves Huang Shi, my mother will remind us: "If there are maple balls, we will pick them up. Next year, we will use smoked oriole bud tea." So, as soon as we went up the mountain, we went down to the maple tree and looked for the black maple ball with the size of a ping-pong ball among the golden leaves on the ground. Try to pick up as many as possible and go home to please mom. Mother put the maple balls we picked up in the laundry basket for making oriole bud tea next year.
In spring, everyone will choose a day in a mysterious day and invite them to go up the mountain to pick the buds of orioles. We must choose the right date to pick oriole buds. We must go early, but the oriole buds haven't grown yet, and it's too late to make oriole bud tea. It is best to pick when the new buds grow to three or four inches and the tea buds are tender yellow. The oriole bud tea tree is several meters short, ten meters high and twenty meters high. Naturally, this is the strong eldest brother and brother-in-law. It's best to show their skills in front of girls and sisters, who are carrying bamboo baskets and climbing trees and branches. Girls, sisters and little girls can only find short trees to pick them.
When the young buds of oriole were picked home, the whole family gathered to pick tea. First, cut it into inches to grow a section, then rinse it with well water, roll it in boiling water, then take it out, sweep it with a dustpan and put it in the sun for a day or two. The last step is to smoke oriole bud tea. So I took out the maple balls prepared last autumn, lit them with pine wool, and then put the semi-dry oriole bud tea on the rice sieve, and smoked them with the maple balls until the Kaoru Miki oriole bud tea was made. In order to keep it, it's best to put it in a porcelain jar.
The prepared oriole bud tea is black. To enjoy this kind of tea, the elders in my hometown call it neither "drinking" nor "drinking", but "eating". This kind of "tea" is the distinguishing feature of oriole bud tea from other teas:
Eat oriole bud tea, one is to enjoy its color. When making tea, put black tea into a cup and pour it into boiling water. Slowly, the tea leaves changed color and turned pale yellow, and the withered tea leaves came out again, just like those just picked from the tree. The leaves moving in the tea leaves even seemed to come alive again! And this tea, also with a hint of yellow. You'll feel like you're holding a Chun Qing.
Eat oriole bud tea and smell its fragrance. The lingering heat, like the morning fog in the mountains in spring, is wonderful, with the fragrance of tea and the pure fragrance of maple cones.
Eat oriole bud tea, and the third is to taste it. When you take a sip of tea, in addition to the fragrance in your mouth, there is also a faint sweetness and umami taste.
Eat oriole bud tea, and the fourth is to chew its leaves. When the tea is gone, the tea leaves are attached to the bottom of the cup. So, the tea drinker stretched out his little finger, hooked up the tea at the bottom of the cup and put it in his mouth to chew. If the cup is too deep for your fingers, experienced people don't need to look for toothpicks or anything else. Just open your palm to seal the cup mouth and pat it a few times, and the tea leaves will move to the edge of the cup mouth. As for what taste this tea can chew, this beauty can only be expressed in words. I can only tell you that if you don't chew tea, it's like not eating it.
This kind of oriole bud tea is usually used to entertain guests in our hometown. Many distinguished guests who have eaten famous tea from all over the country are full of praise for the oriole bud tea in our hometown. Our relatives in the city, native chicken, day lily, peanuts and other hometown specialties are no longer needed in recent years. Only this kind of oriole bud tea is still very popular. Hometown wanderers travel all over the world, and they ask their relatives in letters, that is, this kind of oriole bud tea-because as soon as they eat this kind of tea, they will think of their hometown, miss their relatives and cause all kinds of happy memories.
Therefore, I also like this hometown tea-oriole bud tea very much.