Famous tea, as its name implies, is famous. It is famous for its well-known quality, unique charm, well-known reputation and anecdotes reflecting a long history and culture. Famous tea is well known, loved by people and cherished by the society, which can not be separated from beautiful places of interest, wonderful fairy tales, excellent tea varieties, exquisite tea-making technology, excellent quality and style, and poems and songs of celebrities. In the famous tea garden in China, it is estimated that there are more than 200 kinds of colors, all of which are exotic flowers and exotic grasses, which are fascinating. Among the famous teas at home and abroad, ten kinds are selected as representatives: West Lake Longjing, Tieguanyin, Qi Hong, Biluochun, Huangshan Mao Feng, Baihao Yinzhen, Yunnan Pu 'er, Junshan Yinzhen, Mengding Tea and Frozen Top Tea.
(1) West Lake Longjing with excellent color, fragrance and shape.
West Lake Longjing Tea is named after Longjing Tea produced in the West Lake mountain area of Hangzhou. Traditionally known as West Lake Longjing, it is simplified as Longjing. Longjing is not only a place name, but also a spring name and a tea name. Longjing tea has the reputation of "green color, strong fragrance, sweet taste and beautiful shape", so it has the metaphor of "three clever and four strange things are good"
According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he once tasted Longjing tea at Gong Hu Temple under Lion Peak in Longjing. He was full of praise after drinking, and named the tea tree in front of the temple 18 as "Imperial Tea". After several generations of hard cultivation and improvement by tea farmers, the output of Longjing tea is increasing and the quality is improving day by day. Now it has gone with the wind in Wan Li and become famous all over the world.
Longjing Tea Area is located in the West Lake Scenic Area, where "beautiful spring, summer, autumn and winter, strange rain and snow, sunny and cloudy", beautiful scenery. Lion Peak, meijiawu Lane, Yun Qi Roadside, Tiger Running Spring, Manjue Longzhong, Lingyin Temple, Nine Streams and Eighteen Streams, with undulating green hills and green trees. It is also a picturesque producing area, unique.
Source: according to lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum:
Lion-Lion Peak has the best quality and the highest reputation (place name).
Longjing (place name)
Yun-Yun Qi (place name)
Tiger Run (Place Name)
Mei-Mei House (place name)
Taste: fragrant and sweet.
Color: transparent color
Shape: Take one bud and one leaf, the length is no more than 2.5 cm.
Picking period: early April to1early October.
Longjing tea collected in Qingming Festival, known as "Longjing before Ming Dynasty", is the best in Longjing tea, with little output and very precious. According to the germination status of tea buds and the size of collected leaves, Longjing cuisine can be divided into "lotus heart", "flag gun" and "thin tongue" in history.
(2) Tieguanyin, whose rhyme is sweet.
Boil a spoonful of water in the east and pour it into a shallow cup to find ancient books;
Seven bowls boast that you can drink freely, but have you ever tasted Tieguanyin?
Tieguanyin is the best oolong tea in China, produced in Anxi County, Fujian Province, also known as Anxi Tieguanyin. Su is well-known at home and abroad, especially in the overseas Chinese community in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asian countries. They enjoy a high reputation and are precious.
The fragrance of Guanyin is unique, and its rhyme is famous for its rich orchid fragrance and special rhyme. When tasting Tieguanyin, it is a pleasure for tea tasters and oolong tea lovers to appreciate its rhyme.
According to legend, in the Qing Dynasty, there was a Buddhist farmer in Song Lin Township, Anxi County, Fujian Province. Every morning, he would offer a cup of tea to Guanyin. Guanyin Bodhisattva saw his piety and gave him a dream, saying that he would be given a cash cow, so that he would have nothing to worry about from now on. The next day, he went up the mountain to chop wood and passed by Kannonji. Suddenly, he found a tea tree between the stone pits. In the morning, the leaves sparkled, so he dug them up, planted them next to the house and carefully cultivated them. Later, he picked fresh leaves to make oolong tea, which has a very mellow aroma. After propagation, it gradually spread and became a precious and excellent tea variety. Because of his virtue of worshipping Buddha, he moved Guanyin Bodhisattva and got this tea tree as a gift. In addition, the leaves on the tea tree are as black as iron, so it is named "Tieguanyin".
Production procedures-drying, shaking, cooling, deactivating enzymes and baking.
Baking degree-low heat (raw tea)
Fragrance, light tea base.
Medium fire (medium cooked tea)
Fire (cooked tea)-tea tastes heavy and fragrant.
After brewing, the leaves are divided into three parts and seven parts are green. People call it "Qingdi, Qingdu and Hongbian".
Picking period: Tea is picked four times a year, divided into green tea "Touqing", secondary tea "Qing Er", summer tea "Sanqing" and autumn tea "Siqing", with green tea being the best.
(3) Zhong Yinghao-Qi Hong
Among the black teas popular all over the world, Qi Hong is unique and enduring for a hundred years. It is famous for its high aroma and beautiful appearance, and has won lasting praise in the international market, and is regarded as the best in tea.
Qi Hong, the abbreviation of Qimen black tea, is a treasure in Kung Fu black tea. Won the gold medal in Panama International Fair 19 15. 100 has maintained excellent quality and style for many years, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.
Qimen area in Anhui province is an ancient tea area, which was rich in tea in Tang Dynasty. At that time, green tea was produced in Qimen area, and its preparation method was similar to that of Lu 'an tea. In the first year of Guangxu reign, a yi county man named Yu Ganchen came back from Fujian to do business. Seeing that black tea was selling well, he imitated the method of making tea in Minjiang River, first set up a black tea village in Du Yao Street, Zhide County, and successfully tried out black tea. Another way of saying it is that the transformation of Qimen black tea began with Hu.
Qi Hong is mainly sold in Britain. In the London tea market, Qi Hong is known as the tea hero. Whenever Qihong new tea goes on the market, people compete to bid and preach "Qimenxiang from China is coming!" .
Qi Hongxiang is famous for its high aroma, unique freshness and durability. It is called sugar fragrance or apple fragrance by tea teachers at home and abroad, and contains orchid fragrance, which is lofty, long and unique, and is called "Qimenxiang" in the international market.
(4) White coated silver needle
Bai Hao Yinzhen belongs to white tea, which is a specialty of Fujian, China. Modern white tea (Fuding, Zhenghe and other counties) is made of tea varieties with more fluff through special tea-making technology. Baihao Yinzhen is named Baihao Yinzhen because the fresh leaves are all tea buds. After making tea, it looks like a needle, covered with Bai Hao, as white as silver. Its needle-shaped finished tea is about three centimeters long, and the whole tea bud is covered with white hair and wrapped in silver, which is shining and pleasing to the eye. After brewing, the aroma is fresh, the taste is mellow, and the scenery in the cup is also memorable. When the tea is brewed in the cup, there will be white clouds flashing, full of floating flowers and milk, and the buds stand upright, which is a spectacle.
The picking of white silver needles is very meticulous and the requirements are extremely strict. It is stipulated not to pick in rainy days, wet dew, fine buds, purple buds, wind-injured buds, artificially injured buds, insect-injured buds, favorite vegetables, hollow buds and diseased buds, which are called ten picks.
Bai Hao Silver Needle, with warm and cool nature, has the effects of invigorating stomach, refreshing, eliminating dampness and reducing fever, and is often used as medicine. The efficacy of Bai Hao's silver needle is well explained by Zhou Liang workers in Xiao Min Ji in Qing Dynasty. "In ancient times, there were green snow buds in Taimu Mountain, now known as Bai Hao, with Hongxue Cave as the most important. Producers need to be cool, and it's measles.
Overseas, Baihao Silver Needle is extremely precious, and it is said that it has the function of reducing deficiency fire and relieving evil spirits. Drinking it often can prevent diseases, and even drinking a cup of white silver needle can make people feel calm about many serious facts of today's life, such as inflation, economic depression and high food prices.
(5) Old tea and old Mengding tea
Mengding tea, produced in Mengshan, which spans two counties of Sichuan Province, has a long history. It is the oldest famous tea in China, and is known as the pioneer of old tea and famous tea.
The poem "Water of the Yangtze River, Tea at the Top of Mengshan Mountain" has profound implications. It is said that the water in the Yangtze River is sweet and delicious. Soaking the top of Mengshan Mountain with this kind of fairy tea is the most beautiful drink in the world, which is not available to most people. Therefore, people have always loved Mengding tea and praised it.
Lu Yu, a Cha Sheng, once said: "The top of the mountain is the first, and ancient bamboo is the second" (ancient bamboo tea is produced in Changxing, Zhejiang, and is a treasure among famous teas in the Tang Dynasty).
There are many myths and legends about the origin of Mengding tea, which was called "fairy tea" in ancient times. It is said that an old monk was very ill and took a lot of medicine, but he failed to cure the disease. One day, an old man came to tell the monk that at the beginning of the spring thunder around the vernal equinox, Mengshan Zhong Ding tea was collected and decocted with local water to cure chronic diseases. The old monk listened to the old man's words and built a stone house on the Qingfeng Mountain in Mengshan. He invited some people to live here for a long time and picked Mengding tea according to the method taught by the old man. After surviving, the old monk's illness really recovered. His eyebrows are blue, his body is very good and healthy, and he looks like a man in his thirties. As a result, the myth that Mengding tea can rejuvenate has spread.
Mengshan, one of the ancient famous mountains, is said to have died here for Dayu's successful water control. When Buddhism was introduced into China, Mengshan gradually became a Buddhist resort. The five peaks on the top of the mountain-Shangqing, Jiao Ling, Pilu, Lingquan and Ganlu-are all related to Buddhism. Mengshangong Tea Garden is under the responsibility of all monks on the mountain, with strict division of labor and their respective duties.
Mengding tea is the general name of famous teas of various colors produced in Mengshan. There are names such as thunder, fog bell, sparrow tongue, eagle mouth, bud white, and suppressed tea such as egg cake and dragon ball.
In the early years of the Republic of China, it mainly produced yellow buds, so it was called Mengding yellow buds, which was the representative of Mengding tea at that time. Nowadays, most people produce manna.
Gan Lu, Mengding —— The picking standard is one bud and one leaf, the fresh buds and leaves are spread properly, and the enzyme is removed at high temperature, which requires three processes: frying, kneading, roasting and setting. Beautiful appearance, tight rope, light green and oily, Gao Shuang is fragrant, mellow and sweet, and the soup is yellow and slightly blue, clear and bright.
Top stone flower-after the tender buds are fixed, they are put into the pot for setting, then spread and cooled, then put into the pot for re-frying, and dried at low temperature. The silver buds are flat and straight, the soup is Huang Bi in color, the aroma is fresh, and the taste is sweet and meaningful.
Top yellow bud-the production method is similar to that of stone flower, but it needs to be twisted after fixation. The color is Huang Liang, the bud is golden yellow, the fragrance is pure and clear, the taste is strong and fresh, and the soup is clear and yellow.
Evergreen Silver Leaf and Emerald Ye Changqing-Made of slightly larger bud leaves harvested late, the production method is the same as that of Mana, but the quality is slightly lower than that of Mana.
(6) "Scaring People" Biluochun
Biluochun is produced in Dongting Mountain, Taihu Lake, Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province, also known as Biluochun in Dongting Lake. Wuxian (Jiangsu) is also known as Suzhou Biluochun. The shape is curled like a snail, with natural floral and fruity flavor, and it is known as the flower in tea.
According to legend, the vegetable picking girl puts the picked tea leaves in the skirt of her chest, and the fresh and tender leaves give off a rich fragrance due to the heat of body temperature, so it is called "shocking fragrance". Later, Emperor Kangxi went south to Suzhou to stay in Taihu Lake, and local officials in Suzhou presented local famous tea to scare the people. Kangxi was quite literary and disrespectful, and gave the name "Biluochun" as the tea name.
Biluochun is exquisite and seasonal. Tea picking began at the vernal equinox, and it was less than a month before and after the harvest in Grain Rain. All the top grades were harvested around Tomb-Sweeping Day. The time is shorter and more seasonal.
Biluochun tea is tightly knotted, curled into a snail, densely covered with white hair, silvery green and dark green. Known as the "three fresh", it is fresh and refreshing, mellow in taste, bright in color, fragrant and fruity, refreshing and unique.
(7) Huangshan Mao Feng is accompanied by steaming clouds and rosy clouds.
Huangshan Mountain is famous for its strange pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds and hot springs, and is known as the "four wonders" of Huangshan Mountain. However, in addition to pines, rocks, clouds and springs, there is also a wonder, that is, Huangshan Yunwu tea, which is light, fragrant and cold and directly hits people's taste buds.
The Mao Feng of Huangshan Mountain is high in altitude, with overlapping peaks and green valleys, high mountains and deep valleys, waterfalls and wild trees, mild climate and abundant rainfall. The peaks and peaks are hidden in the clouds all year round. "It's sunny and foggy in the morning and evening, and it rains all day." Under the cover of clouds, the tea leaves become fat and tender. In addition, the mountain flowers are blooming everywhere, which makes the tea buds and leaves fragrant and the flowers are natural. Such a unique ecological environment has laid the foundation for the excellent natural quality of Huangshan Mao Feng.
Mao Feng in Huangshan Mountain is exquisite in picking. Super tea was collected from Qingming to Grain Rain, with the first bud and the first leaf as the picking standard. The harvested bud leaves should be picked and made on the same day.
Huangshan Mao Feng finished tea is thin, flat and slightly curly, like a sparrow's tongue, with white hair exposed, ivory color, oil, yellow and green, and golden fish leaves (commonly known as tea slips). After brewing, the fog is condensed, the fragrance is Gao Shuang, the taste is mellow, the tea soup is clear, and the leaves are fresh and tender. Huangshan Mao Feng has been brewed for five or six times, and its fragrance still exists.
(8) Frozen top oolong throat rhyme agarwood
Frozen top tea, known as the sage of Taiwanese tea, is produced in Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan Province Province.
There are many intriguing stories about the origin of frozen top tea. Frozen top mountain, it is said that because the slope is slippery, you should tighten your toes when going up the mountain. In Taiwan Province Province, it is said that "frozen toes" can reach the top of the mountain, that is, "frozen toes" when going up the mountain, so it is called frozen top.
Speaking of frozen top tea, it is said that in the 11th year of Qing Daoguang, there was a juren named Lin Fengchi in Lugu, who was favored by Lin Sanxian, a clansman, for subsidizing travelling expenses. After becoming famous in Fuzhou, he went to Wuyishan to retrieve 36 oolong tea seedlings, of which 12 plants were given to Lin Sanxian at the top of the frozen mountain. Because of the harmony between heaven, earth and people, it has been developed into a frozen top tea which is now well-known at home and abroad.
The fresh leaves of frozen top tea are collected from the tea tree of Qingxin oolong tea variety, so it is also called "frozen top oolong tea" and belongs to mild semi-fermented tea. The production method is similar to that of packaged tea, which should belong to packaged tea. Wenshan Baozhonghe Frozen Top Oolong is a sister tea, and Wenshan Baozhong is fragrant, while Frozen Top Tea is famous for its mellow taste, strong throat rhyme and agarwood.
The fresh leaves of frozen top tea are two leaves in one heart. In fact, when the new shoots grow to a "small face" (that is, when the new shoots just sprout), the top is taken off to face the two leaves above.
(9) Junshan silver needle wrapped in silver plate
Junshan silver needle is produced in Junshan, a beautiful island in Dongting Lake, which is known as 800 Li.
According to legend, Liu Yichuan's story also happened in Junshan. There is a fairy well called Liu Yijing in Junshan. The water quality of well water is very good. Used to make tea and wine, sweet and delicious. Junshan is a mountain island with an altitude of 90 meters. There are 72 peaks, one for each, and many wonderful stories. Surrounded by Yinshan, the white waves are sky-high, the fog is filled with smoke, and the kitchen smoke is scattered. The deep and fertile soil layer is a good place for the growth and development of tea trees. According to research, tea has been accepted as a tribute since Liang Wudi in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to legend, there are 48 temples in Junshan, and there are tea gardens in the temples.