White Hair Silver Needle belongs to the white tea category, White Hair Silver Needle referred to as White Hair, mainly produced in Fujian Zhenghe, Fuding two places, is the use of large white tea, Narcissus tea tree varieties of single buds as raw materials, through the traditional technology processing and production, processing, not frying, not kneading, only through the withering, drying and baking.

Silver Needle White Hair raw material picking standards for spring tea shoots sprouting a bud and a leaf when it will be picked, and then gently be peeled off the true leaves, fish leaves with fingers. Stripped out of the tea buds evenly spread on the water sieve (a bamboo sieve), do not make overlap, placed in weak sunlight or ventilated outside the shade, cooled to eight, nine dry, and then baking cage to 30-40 ℃ fire to the full dry to become.

There are also used to replace the roasting cage in the sun to the full dry, known as the hairy needle. The hairy needle by sieving fat long tea buds, and then hand-picked stalks (commonly known as silver needle feet), and sieve bumps to pick off the leaves, fragments, seeking texture, etc., and then finally roasted over a gentle fire to dry, while still hot to pack boxes.

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The tea tree for picking Bai Hao Yin Needle should strengthen the fertilizer cultivation management to cultivate strong buds in autumn and winter every year. The next year's picking to spring tea the first one, two rounds of the top buds of the best quality, to three, four rounds of the Department of more than the inverted buds, thinner. The first round of spring buds sprouted after the renewal of Taiwan mowing is especially fat and strong, which is the ideal raw material for manufacturing high-quality white hair silver needle. Summer and fall tea buds thin, not white hair silver needle raw material requirements, generally do not pick.

White Hair Silver Needle picking is very detailed, extremely strict requirements, the provisions of the rainy days are not picked, dew is not dry not picked, thin buds are not picked, purple buds are not picked, wind injury buds are not picked, man-made injuries buds are not picked, insect injury buds are not picked, happy buds are not picked, the hollow buds are not picked, sickly buds are not picked, known as the ten are not picked. Only fat single bud head, if you pick back a bud one, two leaves of the new tip, then only pick the bud heart.