Generally speaking, tea leaves should only be picked within 7-10 days before and after the Ching Ming Festival, and there are also 9 kinds of conditions stipulated in which tea leaves should not be picked, i.e., rainy days, windy and frosty days, insect injuries, thin and thin, curved, hollowed out, openings of the tea buds, purple buds, and out of sizes.
Some teas are excellent when picked in winter, such as Taiwan oolong. Some teas need to be picked young and some need to be picked old.
For the general public, green tea is usually said to be "around the time of the Qingming Festival", but in fact, the tea leaves are too tender, in fact, only "Qingqi" and no aroma, and is not resistant to brewing.
Oolong tea seems to be more to be in the elder some flavor is strong.
And the curing tea base of flower tea is usually picked in the summer, which can make the tea leaves in the repeated curing process to maintain the best ability to absorb the flavor, but also can make the tea shape integrity.
Generally the time of picking the tea is chosen to be completed in the early morning, when the humidity is the greatest and cool time, can be in the stacking of the tea leaves when the other tea is not fermented, not shrinking, in the frying before the tea catechu maximum protection, so that the fresh flavor will not be lost.
For black tea, green tea,, yellow tea, white tea, black tea and green tea. The time to pick the tea leaves varies depending on the region and variety of tea. It is also important to note when the best time to pick is.
Expanded:
Tea picking is a Chinese folk art. p>Tea picking is a Chinese folk song and dance genre. It is circulated in the tea-producing areas of southern China, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces and regions. Also known as "tea song", "tea picking song", "singing tea picking", "light song", Tea Picking Song", "Tea Picking Song", "Singing Tea Picking", "Light Song", "Tea Picking Light", "Tea Basket Light" and so on. Tea-picking is infused with the simple emotions of the Chinese working people and plays a positive role in enriching the spiritual life with its unique artistic thinking and strong flavor of life.
The means of plucking buds and leaves from the new tips of tea trees are hand-picked and machine-picked.
1. hand-picking
① pinch picking: also known as folding picking, where the tender standard picking packet toppings, lifting the head are applied to this technique.
② hand picking: this is a moderate standard picking techniques, most of the red and green tea areas are used.
3 double hand picking: this is to improve the efficiency of tea picking advanced hand picking methods, than the effectiveness of single-handed picking to improve 50-100%, generally less per person per day can be picked 20-25kg, more up to 35-40kg, but the tea tree must have the ideal canopy, picking surface flat, neatly sprouted.
2. Cutting
Border tea harvesting due to raw materials coarse, more tools for cutting, tools used around the moon shaped small iron scraper, scythe or picking tongs, tools require sharp blade, cutting to be rapid, to avoid cutting the branches and affect the next round of new shoots sprouted.
Machine picking: a few days before the machine picking hand picking off a batch of fresh leaves to reach the standard, so that the quality of machine-picked fresh leaves can basically meet the processing of medium and low-grade tea requirements, labor efficiency than the hand to improve more than 10 times. After three or four years of continuous machine picking in the tea garden, the buds and leaves gradually become smaller, the density increases, and the leaves become thinner.
3. machine picking
Mainly reciprocating cutting tea picker to pick. Driven by a small gasoline engine of 0.6 to 14 watts or about 40 watts of micro-motor, the power is transmitted by the flexible shaft to the hand-carried picking device, driving the cutter and leaf collection device for reciprocating motion.
The picked tea leaves are sent into the leaf collection bag under the action of fan or sweeping leaf wheel. Good picking quality, bud and leaf integrity rate of up to about 80%, is the main type of non-selective tea picking machine development.
Notes
1, to cut tea at the right time. The use of tea tongs picking tea is best combined with the picking of tea, spring tea early sprouting buds and leaves should be the first hand picking of tea, and later by the bulk of tea picking standards in a timely manner using tea tongs shear picking. And can be implemented in batches of shearing.
2, to moderate shearing. Spring tea master in the pruning surface of about 3 centimeters under the part of the cut, that is, to achieve to stay 1 leaf shearing. Summer and fall tea should be slightly raised on the surface of the last shear picking a little distance under the shear, not more than once cut heavy, otherwise it will affect the quality of tea leaves and tea tree growth.
3, to knife sharp. Cutting and picking must be a knife success, not in the same place even cut two knives, otherwise it will affect the integrity of the buds and leaves, but also easy to cause the tea tree cutting and picking too heavy.
4, to increase fertilizer. The use of tea tongs shear tea garden, the amount of fertilizer should be more than hand-picked tea garden. General can be based on every 100 kilograms of dry tea, additional 2-3 kilograms of pure nitrogen to calculate. Fertilizer can not only improve the tenderness of the buds and leaves, is conducive to increased production and quality, and to improve the tea tongs shear picking efficiency and buds and leaves of the integrity of the rate are also beneficial.
5, to implement normal pruning of tea trees. The use of tea plucking tongs picking tea than the tea plucking machine on the tea tree picking surface flatness requirements are lower, but does not mean that do not have a certain picking surface, therefore, the need for normal light pruning of the tea tree.
For the tea tree height of the tea garden, still through heavy pruning or deep pruning measures, will be transformed into a flat picking surface, in order to facilitate the implementation of the tea tongs picking tea, which not only improves the picking of tea ergonomics, but also cut down the buds and leaves of the complete rate of high tea stems less, is conducive to improving the quality of tea leaves.
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The tea plucking tongs are used to pluck the tea leaves. Reference: