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When does new tea come down

The first batch of new tea is usually listed in early February.

such as wu niu early, and later Mingqian tea is generally listed in mid-March to early April, such as the West Lake Longjing, Bi Luochun, Mengdingshan tea, Anji white tea, etc., before the rain of the new tea is generally in the beginning of April to the end of April most of the market, followed by spring tea in May or so that is a large area of the market. New tea on the market refers to the beginning of spring in a year, picking tea fresh buds and leaves, and made by the refining process, so as to circulate to the market, the new tea refers to the green tea new tea.

Introduction to tea

Tea, commonly known as tea, generally includes the leaves and buds of the tea tree. Alias tea, Thea sinensis (jiǎ), tea, Thea sinensis. Tea components are catechins, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid, beneficial to health. Tea drinks made from tea leaves are one of the three major beverages in the world. Tea originated in China, and tea was first used as an offering.

But from the late Spring and Autumn period was used as a vegetable food, in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty developed for medicinal purposes, the late Western Han Dynasty developed for the court of high-level drinks, popularization of the folk as a common drink that is the Western Jin Dynasty later. Discover the remains of the earliest artificial cultivation of tea in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, Tianluoshan site, has a history of more than 6,000 years.

Tea drinking began in China. Leaf leathery, oblong or oval, can be directly brewed with boiling water, based on varieties and production methods and the appearance of the product is divided into six categories. According to seasonal harvesting can be divided into spring tea, summer tea, fall tea, winter tea. With a variety of gross tea or refined tea leaves reprocessed to form the re-added tea, including the division into flower tea, pressed tea, extracted tea, medicinal health tea, tea food, tea-containing beverages and so on.