What's the difference between Qingming tea and Grain Rain tea?

The solar terms in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Grain Rain are the harvest season of new tea.

Qingming tea, the first kind of tea produced in the Spring Festival, is the tea bud collected during Qingming period (the new tea collected before Qingming is called "Qianming tea"). In spring, the temperature is moderate and the rainfall is abundant, so Qingming tea has green color and soft leaves. The fragrance is mellow, peculiar and elegant, and it is a good product in a year.

Grain Rain tea is spring tea picked in Grain Rain season (the new tea picked before Grain Rain is called "tea before rain"), also called spring catechu. In spring, the temperature is suitable, the rainfall is abundant, the leaves of tea buds are plump, the color is green, the leaves are soft, rich in vitamins and amino acids, and the tea leaves are fresh and fragrant. Grain Rain tea has one bud and one tender leaf or one bud and two tender leaves. Tea leaves with buds and tender leaves are soaked in water like guns of the ancients spreading flags, called flag guns; A bud with two tender leaves looks like a sparrow's tongue.

Qingming tea and Grain Rain tea are the best in tea.

In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Cishu talked about the season of tea collection: "Qingming is too early, long summer is too late, and Grain Rain is around, and the time is moderate." Grain Rain is the season of tea picking, and a folk proverb says, "Tea picking goes against the rain in Grain Rain, Grain Rain". The tea leaves picked in front of Grain Rain are fragrant and have the best taste. So Grain Rain tried new tea and got used to it. Scholars who love fragrant tea have many poems to recite. Lu Xisheng, Assistant Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Tang Zhaozong, wrote Ming Pao: "In February, I lived in Grain Rain, and the hillside was fragrant. Sobbing up in spring to quench your thirst, I am embarrassed to take the new buds to spin. " Yixing, Taodou and Jiangsu Zisha were called Yangxian in ancient times. The tea enjoyed by Yangxian County is the top grade in the Tang Dynasty, and the tea picked before Grain Rain is even more precious. Monks in the Tang Dynasty had the habit of drinking tea. Qi, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, left three tea poems related to Grain Rain, one of which is "Xie Zhongshi Tea": "In the Qianchunshan of Grain Rain, cigarettes are in hand. It is difficult to fill a cage when it is young, and it is easy to be late. And invited guests from neighboring hospitals to try to cook the spring flowers. The land is far away and labor is sent, and it does not come every other year. " Among the misty tea bushes, green and tender Shan Ye spring tea is very rare, even though it is getting late, the basket has not been completely picked. Although there are few famous teas in Grain Rain, the poet can't wait to attract the guests in the neighbor's courtyard to taste new tea.

Five-grain rain tea can clear liver, improve eyesight and remove moisture.

Grain Rain tea is healthier than Qingming tea.

In people's traditional ideas, it is always believed that Qingming tea (tea picked before Qingming) is better than Grain Rain tea. Yes, Qingming tea is tender and of good quality, but after soaking for two or three times, the taste becomes weak. And the tea made in Grain Rain before, the green tea soaked in it is comfortable and vivid, such as the regeneration of branches, full of eyes in spring, rich tea fragrance and long aftertaste. After taking a sip, I suddenly felt that the fragrance was overflowing, and the impetuousness and fame and fortune in the world were dispersed. Therefore, people who love tea and know tea often treasure the tea picked before Grain Rain.

Now many people are enthusiastic about tea before tomorrow, and they are all rushing for the word "early"! And this word "early", people who buy tea pay the price of silver. The prices of Qianming tea and Grain Rain tea are quite different. Few people really buy Qianming tea and drink it by themselves. Most of them are bought as gifts. The tea before tomorrow looks good, but it hasn't been brewed. Tea soaked in orange before the rain has a strong aroma and a long aftertaste. So people who know about tea usually buy tea from Grain Rain a week or two ago and drink it by themselves.

In the eyes of tea farmers, although the price of tea before the Ming Dynasty was high, it was by no means the real quality of tea. According to the saying handed down from the ancestors of tea makers, it seems that they prefer the tea before and after Grain Rain, especially the tea in Grain Rain that day. The tea picked by tea farmers on the same day is reserved for entertaining guests, and they are generally unwilling to drink it themselves. It is said that the tea picked in Grain Rain that day is very good for people's health, which can relieve the stagnation of the whole body. Diseases can be cured, and diseases can be prevented. The book Shennong Materia Medica says: Drinking tea before rain is "safe and beneficial for a long time" ... intellectual man fit but not old. Tea experts are more convincing. The reasons are as follows: First, Grain Rain tea is affected by the temperature, fully developed, rich in leaves and thick in soup, which is far more resistant to soaking than Qianming tea; Second, the price is favorable, and it is worth the money, which is suitable for the consumption level of ordinary people.