Tongqinghao Laoyuan Tea In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Yibang Tea Mountain declined and the Yiwu Tea District emerged, gathering many tea merchants in Yunnan at that time. They set up factories to make tea and introduced advanced tea making technology. The tea made from the delicate white tips of the large-leaf tea species made Yiwu the first among the six tea mountains in ancient Xishuangbanna in terms of tea production and tea quality. Tongqinghao Tea House set up a tea factory in Yiwu in 1736, and the tea making history in Yiwu spans more than a hundred years.
Tongqinghao round tea is divided into two types: Neipiao and Neifei. Before 1920, it was the "Longma trademark", and later it was the "Double Lion Flag Picture". Both of them were based on the tea products before 1920. It's a masterpiece. It is packed with the best bamboo rugs, the surface is light golden yellow, and the bamboo strips and bamboo skin used for binding are similar in color to the bamboo rugs. Tongqinghao Laoyuan Tea is characterized by its elegance and restraint, which is unparalleled among others. It is an extremely soft and beautiful tea. It is regarded as a national-level masterpiece and enjoys the reputation of "Queen of Pu'er Tea".
Jingchang Round Tea During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, individual tea merchants got involved in the Pu'er tea export business. Jingchanghao (later changed to Xinchanghao) teahouse, whose tea-making technology is comparable to that of Tongqinghao Teahouse, uses the best and high-quality tea leaves from Mansa to make "Qizi Cake Tea", and then uses Niubang Tea. Or transported by caravan to Laos, then shipped to Vietnam, Dai, Hong Kong and other places for sale. The reason why Jingchang round tea is so valuable is that it can only be found but not sought. The reason is that in addition to its excellent quality, its production process and packaging are also fascinating. Jingchang round tea has first-class pressing technology. The cake body is plump and full of charm. The edge of the cake is not atomically thin and consistent, but has a strong sense of rhythm. It is pleasing to the touch and beautiful to the eye. Its appearance is convex and concave, and the leaves are clearly arranged and graceful. There is no Pu'er tea in the world that can compete with its beauty of form. Most of the extant ones were produced in the 1940s. Each cake is 20.5 centimeters in diameter and weighs 330 grams. It is camphor-scented, extremely soft and watery, and melts in your mouth. It is the smoothest among Pu'er teas.
Yangpinyuan Tea In the early Qing Dynasty and the long years before, it was Yibang Tea Mountain that played an important role in the history of tea culture, famous for its cultivation of small-leaf tea. Yangpinhao Tea House was built in the early years of the Republic of China. It uses Yibang small-leaf tea as raw material. The "Yangpin Round Tea" produced by it is rarely available. The cake body is small, about 19 centimeters in diameter, and each cake weighs about 280 grams. , each cake has a 5 "Yangpinhao" and other words. According to expert research and evaluation, the oldest extant "Yangpin Round Tea" is about 60 years old. Its tea soup is fragrant, the water is thin and slightly sour, and it is a typical Yibang small-leaf Pu'er tea? Ba Xiang Yuan Tea Ba Xiang Yuan Tea has "Early" and "late". It is made by Baxiang Tea House. Baxiang Yuan Tea House was founded in 1903. It was originally named Shunxiang, also known as Zhongxinxing, and the factory was set up in Yiwu Town. The tea products produced during the Qing Dynasty have now disappeared, and all the existing tea products are round cake tea produced between 1921 and 1949. The Baxiang round tea produced between 1921 and 1934 is called "Baxiang morning round tea". The period from 1935 to 1949 is called "Baxiang late round tea". The Baxiang round tea produced during this period was produced in small quantities, and all of them were top quality. Tongchang Round Tea Tongchang Tea House was founded in the seventh year of Tongzhi (1869). The tea house changed owners several times and there are three tea names. The earliest Yuanchanghao round teas are no longer available, and those that still exist today are all teas labeled "Master Huang Wenxing" or "Master Tongchang Huangji" after the 1930s. "Tongchang round tea" has the best quality. The cake is thick and dark maroon, with flat and long ropes and thick pekoe. The tea greens integrated into the stems and leaves can be clearly seen. It is natural and beautiful, and the oil surface has an excellent luster. Tongchang round tea and Tongchang Huangji round tea use Yiwu tea green tea, but according to the tasting of tea masters, they should both be Yibang tea. ?