Method for making West Lake Longjing tea

Longjing tea is a kind of green tea, which is produced in Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, and is famous for its unique shape, aroma and taste. The following is how to make West Lake Longjing tea:

1. Picking: Choose sunny days for picking in spring. Just pick the tender leaves with one bud and one leaf or one bud and two leaves, and choose the tea with fine green, tender hair and full teeth.

2. Deactivation: The picked tea leaves are immediately put into the pot for deactivation. The traditional way is to put tea in a big pot and stir-fry it quickly at high temperature to stop the fermentation of tea. The tea leaves after fixation are dark green.

3. Kneading: Put the tea leaves after enzyme fixation into a kneading machine or knead them by hand, so that the juice inside the tea leaves is evenly released to form a flat shape, and there is a fine layer of white hair on the surface of the tea leaves.

4. Drying: put the twisted tea leaves into a dryer to dry. The purpose of drying is to remove water from tea and improve the preservation and taste of tea.

5. Classification: After drying, tea leaves are divided into different grades according to their appearance, size and quality. West Lake Longjing tea is generally divided into four grades: Grade I, Grade II, Grade III and Grade IV.

6. Packaging: The carefully selected and graded West Lake Longjing tea is packaged in special paper bags, tin cans or bamboo storage containers to ensure the freshness and quality of the tea.

Making West Lake Longjing tea needs to pay attention to skills and experience, as well as careful treatment of tea. The produced tea leaves should be smooth and tidy in appearance, bright in color, fresh in aroma, bright in soup color and fresh in taste. West Lake Longjing tea is a precious green tea with a long history and excellent quality.