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What is cereal tea?

Valley scented tea is autumn tea, which is picked between beginning of autumn and Bailu in the twenty-four solar terms. Harvest autumn tea from the end of September to the beginning of June 165438+ 10. At that time, it was the harvest season, the flowers were overflowing and the fields were golden, so it was called valley scented tea. Picking scented tea with low yield takes a short time and is a treasure in tea.

Tea can generally be picked three times in autumn. The first time was after beginning of autumn. Although it is autumn, it is still the end of the rain. The picked tea leaves should also belong to the category of rain tea. Early autumn tea is short, moist and slightly thick. The tea picked for the second and third time is the aforementioned cereal scented tea, so we should also pay attention to the picking time of cereal scented tea.