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Fengqing Tea Factory has been out of the Dream of the Red Chamber of Tea

No, Shunning (now Fengqing), the ancient name of Qingdian, the Department of Pu barbarians inhabited. According to Liu Xuexin folk research argument, Pu barbarians are the first to discover and utilize the ancestors of the tea. In this case, Shunning at least a thousand years of tea history, during which many famous tea was born. These teas are not famous, but generations of tea farmers production labor to create a boutique, back, it became the Shun Ning tea development of a place in the highlands.

Yuhuangge tea is the earliest famous tea in Shun Ning. Yuhuangge, has been unable to survey its old appearance, if not on the tea research, can not imagine in this inconspicuous hill, in the late Ming Dynasty produced a famous Yuhuangge tea. Ming Dynasty, the Jade Emperor Pavilion is a heavy stacked pavilions, flying eaves and pecking, compact structure, exquisite and chic traditional wooden structure with a large roof building. In the Jade Emperor Pavilion are planted around the tea, especially in its due west of Fengshan, is the famous Fengshan tea. Qing - Zhang Hong "Diannan new language" recorded: "Tea production Shun Ning Province Jade Emperor Pavilion, a flag and a gun, the color Ying Bi, not different from Hangzhou's Longjing, but only the fragrance overly strong." Qing Wang Chang "Dian line catalog" said "Shunning tea sweet aroma overflowing teeth. Yunnan tea is the best." The most famous Jade Palace tea is a spring tea called "Fengshan Bird's Tongue". Fengshan Bird's Tongue tea is named for its small shape resembling a bird's tongue. Its aroma is unique and rich, and it is the finest bud tea roasted from young buds. At that time with the "Fengshan Spring Rui" "Mingqian spring tip" known as the three major Shunning tea. Fengshan Bird's Tongue tea is hard to find, ordinary people are discouraged at the same time, tea lovers are still competing. Today, hundreds of years later, people can't forget the Fengshan bird tongue.

Taiping Temple tea is Shunning in the Ming Dynasty tea, and Yuhuangge tea. Dian Hai Yu Heng Zhi", "Shun Ning Taiping tea, fine and moist like Biluochun, can be three boiled, especially flavorful." Qing Dynasty "Dian line day record" and so on also traced back to Fengqing tea. According to "Diannan new language" records, as early as the Ming Dynasty, Fengqing can be handmade Taiping tea, its color, aroma and taste comparable to Longjing tea. Ming Chongzhen twelve years (1639) on the sixth day of August, the great traveler Xu Xiake from right Dian (now Changning) to Shunning, in Fengqing Longquan Temple accommodation for two days. During this period, the abbot of Longquan Temple had Longquan water to make Taiping Temple tea to entertain Xu Xiake. Shunning Fu Zhi" "Shunning miscellaneous" records: "Chu monk Hong Jian came here ...... to establish a Zen garden, the name Taiping Temple ...... its rocky valleys, occasional production of tea, name Taiping tea, taste thin and slightly fragrant, slightly finer than the Pu tea, color is also clear, neighboring counties more purchase, foragers, each year only dozens of pounds of production, can not be obtained." The original temple has long been destroyed, and then there are kind people rebuilt, of course, the scale is not as early as the old temple. Xu Xiake drank the Taiping Temple tea by examining the village of Fengshan from the Taiping Temple, the temple is now surrounded by the ancestors planted under the ancient tea trees.