As the name implies, Qingming tea was drunk in Tomb-Sweeping Day and picked around Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is said that the tea picked at this time is the best, also called Qingming tea, because the spring rain is abundant and the temperature is moderate. For tea lovers, the Qingming Festival is a rare good time to pick tea.

When will Qingming tea be picked?

Qingming tea is made from the tender buds collected during the Qingming period, and it is the earliest batch of tea in a year. Due to the moderate temperature and abundant rainfall in spring, spring tea generally has no pests and diseases, no need to use pesticides, and tea is pollution-free and rich in vitamins and amino acids. The fragrance is mellow, peculiar and elegant, and it is a good product in a year. Emperor Qing Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy Longjing tea, praising it as "tender before the fire, old after the fire, and only riding the fire is the best." Grain Rain tea refers to the spring tea harvested in Grain Rain season, also called spring catechu. In addition to picking tender buds, Grain Rain tea also has one bud and one leaf or one bud and two leaves, which was the best of Qingming tea in that year. Xu Cishu in the Ming Dynasty mentioned in Tea Sparse that "Qingming is too early, long summer is too late, and around Grain Rain, the time is moderate." It can be seen that Qianming tea and Grain Rain tea are highly regarded by everyone because of their early collection of endoplasm.

Why is it better to pick tea in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Qingming Festival is the key period for tea picking. At that time, the tea was the most tender and the picking period was very short. If you don't pick it in time, the buds will burst open day by day and it is not easy to get old. Especially when tea is served, the time is tight, the bud head grows out, and a young leaf just appears outside. You must pinch off the bud leaf quickly in a short time, otherwise it will affect the shape and nutrition of tea.

Where to pick Qingming tea?

Shanxincha

In spring, green tea leaves are green all over the mountains. The newly listed Qingming tea was put on the street stalls in the town, and there was an endless stream of tea buyers and sellers. The whole tea town presents a prosperous scene of "since the early spring, Qingming ripe mountain heart tea" There are more than 5,500 mu of tea gardens in this town, and four planting bases, namely Tang Peng, Gonghe, Shi Gui and Kuifeng, have been initially built, with more than 30 million tea farmers and more than 0.000 employees/kloc-,with an annual output of more than 5,000 tons of fresh tea and a total output value of more than 22 million yuan. In recent years, Shanxin Town has cultivated and expanded six tea processing enterprises, including Shanxin Supply and Marketing Cooperative Tea Factory and Shanxin Yunwu Tea Factory, through support and market-oriented operation, and created superior brands such as "Shanxin Maojian" and "Kuifeng Green Tea", and won the "Best Product Award" in the national tea appraisal.

Shanxin town is mainly hilly and mountainous, and the soil is acidic and pollution-free. The produced tea is rich in various trace elements, the soup is green and resistant to foam, the taste is mellow and the aftertaste is sweet. Known as the "hometown of green tea in Guangxi", this town is a tea-producing area with a long history in Yulin City.

Leigongshan selenium-enriched

Tea gardens are distributed in Leigongshan National Nature Reserve, with an altitude of 1, 300- 1, 400 meters, and loose soil.

Fertile, often foggy, diffuse light, abundant rainfall, fresh air and good tea quality. In addition, the selenium content of tea is as high as 2.00 μ g -2.02 μ g/g, which is 15 times of the average selenium content of general tea. Qingming tea, a winter bud formed last autumn, developed around Qingming. The overwintering buds are rich in substance accumulation, the tea quality is excellent, the mesophyll is plump and soft, the fragrance is mellow, and it is sweet and resistant to brewing.

The efficacy of Qingming tea

New tea is of high quality and good taste, and tea tasters often like to find new tea to drink. The first batch of Longjing tea produced every year is called "Qingming tea", which is made by frying tea buds collected during Qingming period. Except Pu 'er and other aged teas, other teas pay attention to freshness, especially green tea. But from the health point of view, the newly listed spring tea is not suitable for urgent drinking and drinking more. New green tea contains high contents of tea polyphenols, caffeine and other aromatic substances, which easily excites people's nervous system and has a strong * * * effect on human gastrointestinal mucosa. If the gastrointestinal function is poor, or patients with chronic gastrointestinal diseases, drinking too much new tea can easily cause dizziness, fatigue, constipation, bloating and other adverse reactions, which is called "drunken tea syndrome".

Before and after Qingming, it is the season of tea tasting before Ming Dynasty. Qingming tea has the effects of nourishing the liver, improving eyesight, resolving phlegm and relieving annoyance, and refreshing the brain. Modern research has proved that tea has the functions of anti-cancer, lowering blood fat, lowering cholesterol and delaying aging.