What do you mean by rain before rain?

0 1 solar terms? Grain Rain? . ? Tea before rain, also called "Grain Rain tea", is a spring tea harvested in Grain Rain. In spring, the temperature is moderate and the rainfall is abundant. In winter, after half a year's conditioning, the leaves of spring buds are plump, green, soft, fresh and pleasant.

Before the rain, that is, before Grain Rain, that is, after April 5 to April 20, the tea made of fine buds was called before the rain. Although pre-rain tea is not as delicate as pre-Ming tea (tea picked before Qingming Festival), pre-rain tea is often fresh and durable because of its high temperature, relatively rapid growth of bud leaves and rich accumulated inclusions.

Xu Cishu in Ming Dynasty said when talking about the tea-picking season, when the tea was thin. Qingming is too early, long summer is too late, around Grain Rain, and the time is moderate? . This is indeed the most suitable time for harvesting spring tea for ordinary fried green tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, after Tomb-Sweeping Day and before Grain Rain. It is said that in terms of time, tea before tomorrow is the best in tea, and tea before rain is the top grade in tea.

In the dry season from June 5438 to the end of May of the following year, there will be a spring rain around the beginning of April, and the tea seeds picked before this are called? Tea before rain? . Due to climatic factors, the temperature is low and there is little rain. Tea before rain? It is characterized by thin and short leaves, rich aroma, slightly bitter taste, strong nature and heavy quality. In Yunnan, the relatively low temperature drying in February and March has a negative impact on the growth of tea trees and the quality of tea seeds.