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What are the top ten famous teas in China?

1: Introduction to West Lake Longjing

West Lake Longjing is the most famous green tea variety, and it is also the first famous tea in China. West Lake Longjing Tea is named after Longjing tea produced in the West Lake mountain area of Hangzhou. Traditionally known as West Lake Longjing, simplified as Longjing. The specific place of origin is Shifeng, Longjing, Wuyunshan and Hupao in the West Lake of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Historically, it was divided into four categories: "lion, dragon, cloud and tiger", among which the quality produced in Shifeng is considered to be the best. Longjingsu is famous for its "green color, rich fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape". The light is flat and straight, the color is slightly yellow like brown rice, the taste is sweet and mellow, the aroma is elegant and lofty, and the soup color is green and Huang Ying; The leaves are tender and blossoming. Origin: according to "lion", "dragon", "cloud", "tiger" and "plum":

lion-the lion peak with the best quality and the most prestigious (place name)

dragon-Longjing (place name)

cloud-Yunqi (place name)

tiger-

color: clear color

shape: take one bud and one leaf, which is no longer than 2.5cm.

Picking period: from early April to early October.

identification method

produced in Xihu district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Tea leaves are flat, with tender leaves, neat strips, uniform width, green and yellow, smooth to the touch, and one leaf or two leaves per bud; Buds are longer than leaves, generally less than 3 cm long, and the buds and leaves are evenly blossomed, without clips and fragments, which are small and exquisite. Longjing tea tastes fragrant, while counterfeit Longjing tea is mostly grass-clearing, with more clips and unsmooth hand feel.

[ Edit this paragraph] II. Biluochun in Dongting

Introduction

Biluochun is a famous green tea variety, which is produced in Dongting Mountain on the coast of Taihu Lake in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. The shape is curled like a snail, and the floral and fruity taste is natural, which is the flower in tea. Biluochun tea is fried with the tender buds picked from tea trees in spring; High-grade "Biluochun" requires 13.6 ~ 15, tea buds per kilogram of dry tea. The shape of the rope is tight, the white hair is exposed, the color is silver green, the emerald is attractive, and it curls into a snail, hence the name "Biluochun". The soup is clear and bright, rich and mellow, fresh and refreshing, and has a long aftertaste; The leaves are green and green.

Spring tea strips are tightly knotted, curled into snails, covered with white hairs, silvery green and hidden green. Known as the "three fresh", it is fragrant and fresh, mellow in taste, bright in color, fragrant and fruity, refreshing and unique.

"Biluochun" has a fine harvesting technology. The budding leaves are picked as raw materials, picked and removed, and then dried, kneaded, kneaded, kneaded and fried. The key points of frying are: "Never leave the tea, never leave the pot, stir-fry with kneading, continuous operation, no fluff falling, and curl into snails".

The quality characteristics of Biluochun are: slender rope, curled into a snail, covered with fluffy hair, silvery green and hidden green, elegant fragrance, rich and mellow, fresh and refreshing, and long aftertaste.

to taste "Biluochun" tea, put 3g of tea leaves in a white porcelain cup, soak the tea leaves with a little hot water first, and then continue to brew with heated water for 2-3 minutes after the bud leaves spread slightly, then you can smell the fragrance, watch the color and taste. The green and slender bud leaves are floating in the cup, and the aroma is fragrant. After drinking, it is fresh and pleasant.

Identification method

It is produced in Biluo Peak of Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake, Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Silver buds are exposed, with one bud and one leaf. The total length of tea leaves is 1.5 cm, and there are 58-7, bud heads per 5 grams. The buds are Baihao curly, the leaves are curly and green, and the leaves are tender, even and bright. False is one bud and two leaves, and the bud leaves are uneven in length and yellow.

[ Edit this paragraph] III: Introduction to Mao Feng of Huangshan Mountain

Huangshan Mao Feng is a famous green tea variety, which is produced in Huangshan Mountain, Anhui Province and mainly distributed around Yungu Temple, Songgu Temple, Diaoqiao Yan, Ciguang Pavilion and Bansi Temple in Taohua Peak. Here, the mountains are high and dense, the sunshine is short, there are many clouds, and the natural conditions are very superior. The tea trees are moistened by clouds, free from the invasion of cold and heat, and accumulate good quality. Mao Feng in Huangshan Mountain is very fine. The Maofeng tea is thin, flat and slightly curved in shape, like a sparrow tongue, fragrant as cymbidium, and mellow and sweet in taste.

identification method

identification method: produced in Huangshan mountain, Shexian county, Anhui province. Its appearance is tender and slightly curly, the buds are fat, uniform and sharp, and the shape is a bit like "sparrow tongue", and the leaves are golden yellow; The color is light green and oily, the aroma is fresh, the water color is clear, apricot yellow and bright, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the leaves at the bottom of the leaves are blossoming, thick and bright. Fake tea is yellowish brown and bitter, and the leaves are not blossoming.

[ Edit this paragraph] IV: Lushan Cloud

Introduction

Lushan Cloud Tea is a famous green tea. Produced in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province. Lushan Yunwu Tea, called "Wenlin Tea" in ancient times, has been called "Lushan Yunwu" since the Ming Dynasty.

Lushan Yunwu tea is green in color, fragrant as orchid, thick, mellow, fresh and cool, and its buds are tender and white.

Lushan Mountain, which is majestic and fantastic, has been known as "the magnificent scenery in Kuanglu is the best in the world" since ancient times. Lushan Mountain is located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. The mountain rises from the ground, flies to the edge of rivers and lakes, faces the Yangtze River in the north, and just faces Poyang Lake. The main peak towering into the sky, with an altitude of 1543 meters. There are many steep cliffs and steep walls, deep canyons, criss-crossing, clouds over the mountains, unpredictable, and white clouds around the mountains at the turn of spring and summer. Sometimes light clouds are like gauze covering the mountain peak, and sometimes a cloud flows down the steep mountain peak and pours into the deep valley. This magnificent landscape is known as the "waterfall cloud" of Lushan Mountain. Clouds and fog have added many magical scenery to Lushan Mountain, and clouds are named after tea.

Lushan Yunwu tea not only has an ideal growth environment and excellent tea varieties, but also has exquisite harvesting technology. Before and after the Qingming Festival, with the increase of altitude, the exploitation of fresh leaves was delayed to around May Day, with one bud and one leaf as the standard. After being collected back to camellia oleifera abel., it is thinly spread in a cool and ventilated place to keep the fresh leaves pure. Then, after nine processes, such as fixing, shaking and twisting, the finished product is made.

Because of the acquired climatic conditions, Yunwu tea is picked later than other teas, and it is usually picked between Grain Rain and long summer. Taking one bud and one leaf as the initial development standard, it is about 3 cm long. The finished tea has full and beautiful appearance, tender and smooth color, and hidden buds.

Lushan cloud and mist buds are rich and beautiful, fragrant and sweet, and the soup color is clear. It is a fine green tea, and has a long-standing reputation as "mellow taste, beautiful color, fragrant fragrance and clear liquid". Sell well at home and abroad. If you taste it carefully, its color is like Tuocha, but it is lighter than Tuocha, just like jasper in a bowl. If you use the mountain spring of Lushan Mountain to brew tea and bake tea, it will be more mellow and delicious.

Yunwu tea with unique flavor, influenced by the cool and foggy climate in Lushan Mountain and the short direct sunlight time, has the characteristics of thick leaves, rich sweetness and foam resistance, and contains more tannins, aromatic oils and vitamins. It not only has a strong and fragrant taste, but also can help digestion, sterilize and detoxify, and has the functions of preventing gastrointestinal infection and increasing anti-scurvy.

Zhu De once wrote a poem praising Lushan Yunwu Tea Cloud: "Lushan Yunwu Tea has a strong and pungent taste, and if it is drunk for a long time, it will prolong life.".

History

According to records, tea cultivation in Lushan Mountain began in the Jin Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, literati once gathered in Lushan Mountain, and tea production in Lushan Mountain developed. According to legend, Bai Juyi, a famous poet, once built a house under the incense burner peak of Lushan Mountain and opened up a garden to grow tea and medicine. In the Song Dynasty, Lushan tea was listed as "tribute tea".

[ Edit this paragraph] V: Luan Guapian

Introduction

Luan Guapian is a famous green tea, and it is also the only product fried with a single tender leaf in famous tea, which is a must. It is produced in Dabie Mountain tea area in western Anhui, among which the products produced by Lu 'an, Jinzhai and Huoshan counties are the best, and the finished tea is in the shape of melon seeds, hence the name "Lu 'an Guapian", which is green in color, high in fragrance, sweet and fresh in taste and resistant to brewing. It first originated from Qiyun Mountain in Jinzhai County, and the quality of melon chips tea produced by Qiyun Mountain is the best, so it is also called "Qiyun melon chips". When making tea, the mist is transpiration and the fragrance is overflowing, so it is also known as the "Qishan cloud melon slice".

Among Qiyun melon chips, the melon chips produced in Qiyun Mountain Bat Cave are the best among famous products. Because there are thousands of bats around the Bat Cave all year round, the feces discharged are rich in phosphorus, which is beneficial to the growth of tea trees, so the melon chips here are the sweetest and most delicious. However, due to the restriction of output, many tea drinkers are "only known by their names, but not by their looks". The finished product of Lu 'an melon slices, with the leaf edge turned back, is melon-shaped, which is quite different from other green teas. After brewing, the soup is green and bright, with high aroma, sweet and mellow taste, and has the effects of clearing the heart, improving eyesight, refreshing, dredging orifices and dispelling wind. Such excellent quality is due to the unique natural conditions, and at the same time, it is inseparable from the fine and exquisite processing process. Generally, the picking time of melon slices is between Grain Rain and long summer, which is about half a month later than other high-grade teas. When climbing the slices, the first leaf to the third and fourth leaves and tea buds on the broken tip should be climbed down one by one by hand, and the first leaf should be made into "lifting slices", the second leaf into "melon slices", the third or fourth leaf into "plum slices" and the bud into "silver needles", which should be fried with climbing. Stir-fried slices are baked after taking out the pan, only 2-3 slices at a time. First, "slow down" and then "slow down" until the leaves are frosted and the color is green and even, and then sealed and stored while it is hot. As Mei Yaochen said in the Song Dynasty's Ming Fu, "At this time, women waste silkworm weaving and men waste farming, so they can't rest at night and stop at day". Good color, aroma and taste, it is a treasure in melon tea.

History

Lu 'an has a long history of tea production. According to historical records, Lu 'an tea began in the Tang Dynasty and became famous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Li Bai had the praise of "water in the Yangtze River, tea on the top of Qi Mountain". In Song Dynasty, it was even more famous as a "fine product" in tea. In the Ming dynasty, it was once presented to the court as a tribute. In the Ming dynasty, the book Tea Notes was the best in Lu 'an. After liberation, it was rated as a national high-quality tea for three times and exported to Hong Kong and other places.

According to Qiao Jinwang, the bodyguard of Premier Zhou Enlai, when the Prime Minister was seriously ill, he suddenly asked for a piece of tea with six melons. It took the staff in the office a lot of trouble to satisfy his old man's wish. After drinking tea, the Prime Minister explained that at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army, had given him a big barrel of Luan melon tea. Drinking this kind of tea was like seeing General Ye Ting. It can be seen that Lu' an melon slices are in the hearts of the two.

Identification method

It is produced in Qiyun Mountain in Lu 'an and Jinzhai counties of Anhui Province. Its shape is flat, each piece has no buds and stems, the leaves are green and smooth, slightly overlapping upwards, resembling melon seeds, with high aroma in the endoplasm, green water color, sweet taste and thick and bright leaf bottom. The fake ones taste bitter and yellow.

[ Edit this paragraph] VI: Introduction to Junshan Silver Needle

Junshan Silver Needle belongs to light fermented tea, which is a treasure of yellow tea in China. It is produced in Qingluo Island, Dongting Lake, Yueyang, Hunan Province, and has the description of "Dongting Di Zi hates spring, but the grass grows longer in two thousand years". It is a traditional famous tea with a history of more than 1, years. When brewing, the sharp tip hangs up to the water surface, and then slowly sinks, the first three times. When erected, such as fresh bamboo shoots unearthed; When it sinks, it falls like snowflakes, and when it is drunk, it still has high appreciation value. Its finished tea buds are strong, uniform in length and size. The inside of the tea buds is golden yellow, the outer layer is completely exposed, and the package is solid. The tea buds look like silver needles, so it is named. In the Tang Dynasty, Princess Wencheng chose to bring Junshan tea when she got married in Tibet. Houliang has been listed as tribute tea, and later generations have attacked each other. A Dream of Red Mansions once said that Miaoyu's "Laojunmei" brewed with plum blossom snow in the next year is Junshan Silver Needle.

junshan silver needles are all made of fat buds without leaves, covered with hairs, bright in color, fragrant in Gao Shuang, orange in soup color, and sweet in taste. Although they have been stored for a long time, their taste remains unchanged, and their harvesting requirements are very high. For example, the time for picking tea leaves can only be 7-1 days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is also stipulated that they cannot be picked in nine situations, namely, rainy days, windy and frosty days, insect injuries and fine. In the drying process, there are also quite special features. Drying is divided into four steps: primary drying, primary packaging, secondary drying and secondary packaging, which takes three days. The initial baking temperature is 8℃ to 9℃. After it is 7% dry, it is wrapped in kraft paper and placed in a wooden box, which is called the initial package. After two days, it is taken out and re-baked. The re-drying temperature is low. When it is 9% dry, it is wrapped in paper and left for one day. When the bud turns light yellow and gives off fresh fragrance, it is dried at low temperature and stored in an iron box. By adopting this technology, the effective chemical substances contained in the bud leaves will change well with the slow loss of water in the leaves, and the color, flavor and shape of tea will be more perfect.

identification method

produced in junshan, Yueyang, Hunan. It's made of undeveloped fat tender buds. The buds are fat, straight and even, covered with fuzz, golden and bright in color, fresh in aroma, light yellow in tea color and sweet and refreshing in taste. After brewing, it seems that the buds rush to the water surface, stand in the air, and then slowly sink to the bottom of the cup, which is shaped like a group of bamboo shoots unearthed and stands upright like a silver knife. The fake silver needle smells like grass, and the silver needle can't stand up after soaking.

[ Edit this paragraph] VII: Introduction to Xinyang Maojian Tea

Xinyang Maojian Tea is produced in Dabie Mountain area of Xinyang, Henan Province. It is a famous domestic green tea in China and is famous for its delicate raw materials, exquisite workmanship, beautiful shape, high fragrance and long taste. Xinyang has been producing tea for more than 2, years. Tea gardens are mainly distributed among the canyons of Cheyun Mountain, Jiyun Mountain, Tianyun Mountain, Yunwu Mountain, Zhenlei Mountain and Heilongtan Mountain. The terrain here is high and steep, generally more than 8 meters high, with mountains and green mountains, vertical and horizontal streams and a lot of clouds. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, someone said, "Clouds go to the green hills and the sky, and clouds come to the green hills and the white hills; Baiyun is only in the mountains, and it is always accompanied by tourists in the mountains. " There are also the first springs in southern Henan, "Black Dragon Pool" and "White Dragon Pool", with beautiful scenery. The poet praised: "Immediately under the cliff, there is a waterfall spring. Splash flowers, fly fog and snow, and turn stones into sunny days. Straight stunned galaxy diarrhea, remote doubt jade opens. " This continuous mist breeds and nourishes fat and tender tea buds, which provides natural conditions for making tea with unique style.

Xinyang Maojian tea has a unique style, high aroma, clear soup color, mellow taste and light green leaves. After drinking, it will be sweet and fluid-producing, and it will be brewed for four or five times, and it will still have a long-lasting aroma of cooked chestnuts. If you want to get the unique style of Maojian, you should choose carefully and bake skillfully. Picking is the first step to make a good hairy tip. Generally, it is mined in the middle and late April, and it is harvested for 9 days throughout the year, divided into 2 to 25 batches, and it is patrolled every two or three days. One bud and one leaf or one bud and two leaves at the beginning of development are used to make special-grade and first-grade hairy tips, and one bud and two or three leaves are used to make second-and third-grade hairy tips. The buds and leaves are picked, accepted by grades, spread and fried by grades. The spreading place should be well ventilated, the thickness of spreading leaves should not exceed five inches, and the spreading time should not exceed ten hours. After spreading fresh leaves, stir-fry them, and stir-fry them twice in a raw pot and a cooked pot. The main function of the frying pan is to kill the green and gently knead it. Fresh leaves are thrown into an inclined pot, 75g leaves are thrown at a time, and bamboo brooms tied into bundles are used to stir fry rhythmically. After 3-4 minutes, when the leaves become soft, sweep the leaves with the end of the broom and shake them in an arc shape in the pot, so that the leaves are initially strips. The frying pan is shaken back and forth in an arc shape with a broom to tighten and straighten the strips, so that the shape of the tea leaves is tight, thin, straight and smooth. Then spread the tea on the baking cage for about half an hour, and then put it on the pit stove for baking. Until the finished product

Xinyang Maojian tea was deeply loved by people and won many honors

in p>1915, it won the certificate of quality of famous tea at Panama World Expo;

in p>1959, it was listed as one of the top ten famous teas in China.

in p>1982, it was once again rated as a national and ministerial-level high-quality tea;

In p>1985, it was selected to be exhibited at the National Fair of High-quality Agricultural Products. It is sold to 2 provinces and regions in China and more than 1 countries such as Japan, Germany, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia, and is very popular.

in p>199, Xinyang Maojian Tea, a special brand of Longtan brand, won the first place in the national famous tea appraisal with its "beautiful shape, green color, high fragrance and sweet taste" and won the national gold medal.

In p>1991, it was awarded the title of "Famous Tea of China Tea Culture" at Hangzhou International Tea Culture Festival.

In p>1999, he won the gold medal of Kunming World Horticultural Exposition.

History

The superior climate and soil flavor in Xinyang area are the ideal environment for green tea production, and the hand-made tea-making technology that has been in the same strain for thousands of years has made it "trustworthy"