The Origin and Story of Anji White Tea

Anji White Tea is a special kind of green tea, which is produced in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, China. It has the characteristics of light yellow, fragrant, sweet and refreshing, and tender and smooth buds and leaves. There are many stories about the origin and story of Anji white tea:

1. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs: According to legend, in ancient times, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs as a medicinal diet and accidentally met a tea tree. After trying, it was found that tea can be soaked in water for drinking, so tea making was born. Among them, Anji white tea is one of the treasures left by Shennong.

2. Small tea garden in Tang Dynasty: According to legend, there was a small tea garden in Tang Dynasty with beautiful environment and some tea trees. Once, the leaves on the tea trees in the hospital were soaked in rain and turned white. After the managers found out, they picked these leaves and dried them to make the tea soup fresh and mellow, which was collected by Taoist priests and later became Anji white tea.

3. Minister's Travel in Qing Dynasty: It is said that when a minister of Qing Dynasty traveled to Anji, he passed a tea garden and found that the leaves of a tea tree were slightly white. After tasting, the tea soup is fresh and refreshing, which has been popularized in North Korea, thus making Anji white tea go global.

In a word, the origin and story of Anji white tea have a long history, and different people have different explanations and versions. But no matter which version we start with, Anji White Tea is still a kind of China tea worth tasting, inheriting and popularizing.