Folk stories about the origin of Anji white tea

According to legend, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a wealthy businessman named Xu Xingzu bought a tea garden in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, and prepared to grow tea. But Xu Xingzu didn't understand the cultivation and processing of tea, so he asked the local tea farmers to teach him how to plant and make tea.

One day, Xu Xingzu said to the tea farmers, "I want to send the tea grown here to Beijing for the emperor to taste." After hearing this, the tea farmer smiled and said, "Let the emperor taste your Anji tea? It's a pity that the tea you have here is just some ordinary green tea and doesn't even have a name. "

Xu Xingzu was very angry and decided to study on his own and make a better tea. He dried the tea leaves and then put them in a bamboo tube for sealed storage. After a certain period of time, he opened the package and found that the color of the tea turned silvery white, and the tea gave off a fragrance, which made people feel amazing.

So Xu Xingzu sent this silvery white tea to Beijing for the emperor to taste. The emperor liked this kind of tea very much, called it "white tea" and named Xu Xingzu "Anji White Tea". Since then, "Anji White Tea" has become a kind of precious tea, which is deeply loved by people.