Chinese Tea

Tea fallen leave choice

The highest grade white tea, yellow tea and green tea are made from tender tea shoots chose early Spring. These youthful tea shoots might consist of a single terminal bud, a bud with an adjoining fallen leave or a bud with two nearby somewhat unfurled fallen leaves. It is normally required that the fallen leaves are equal in length or much shorter than the buds.

The more oxidised tea such as red tea or oolong tea () are made from elder leaves. The Anxi Tieguanyin (), for instance, is made from one bud with two to 4 fallen leaves.

Not all higher grade environment-friendly tea is made from tender tea shoots. The strongly related to environment-friendly tea Liu An Gua Pian is made from additional matured leaves.

Typically these tender tea shoots are picked before 5 April, or Qing Ming Jie. The common technique is to start picking when 5 % of the garden prepares, or when the tea buds get to specific dimension. In some tea yards, tea shoots are decided on daily, or every 2 days.

Chinese tea past

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is belonging to China. The ancient Chinese utilized them for clinical objectives, then created the mixture we called tea; to now tea is said to remove the digestion system of ‘toxins’. Later on the Chinese discovered to increase tea plants and utilize their fallen leaves to make various kinds of tea.

Several various sorts of tea were increased throughout each of the dynasties in China.

Tang Dynasty

A listing of the varying grades of tea grown in the Tang Dynasty:

Premier Grade Tea: Xiazhou, Guangzhou, Huzhou, Yuezhou, Pengzhou.

2nd Grade Tea: Jingzhou, Ranzhou, Changzhou, Mingzhou.

Third Grade Tea: Shouzhou, Hangzhou, Muzhou, Hengzhou, Taizhou, Xuanzhou, Yiazhou, Luzhou.

Fourth Grade Tea: Jinzhou, Lianzhou, Huangzhou, Sozhou, Yunzhou, Hanzhou, Meizhou.

Tea dates back to the West Zhou Period in old China, when the Chinese secondhand tea as providings. Considering that after that, tea fallen leaves have actually been consumed as veggies, used as medication, and, given that the Han dynasty, infused in steaming water, the new drink making tea into a major asset.

Tune Dynasty

Tea was an essential crop during the Tune Empire. Tea ranches covered 242 counties. This featured expensive tribute tea; tea from Zhejiang and Fujian districts, where some was exported to Southeast Oriental and the Arab nations.

In the Track Empire, tea started to be pushed into tea birthday cake, some embossed with designs of the dragon and the Phoenix and was called exotic names featuring:

Big dragon tea cake

Large Monster tea cake, Little Monster tea cake, Go beyond Snow Dragon ball birthday cake, Fine Silver Sprout, Cloud Leaf, Gold Money, Jade Flower, Inch of Gold, Durability Sprout, Eternal Springtime Jade Leave, Monster in the Clouds, Durability Dragon Sprout, Monster Phoenix and Flower, Eternal Spring season Silver Sprout.

Ming Empire

Ming empire scholar Wen Zhenheng’s book Zhang Wu Zhi (On Superfluous Points) chapter 12 consists of description of several well-known Ming dynasty teas:

Tiger Hillside Tea and Paradise Pool Tea

During this time Tiger Hillside Tea (not to be perplexed with the “black” tea of the very same name from the Nilgiris Area in what is now Tamil Nadu in southeastern India) was supposedly created as (still) the finest tea worldwide, nevertheless, the production amount was instead little, and expanding is controlled by the Chinese government. Some, nonetheless, included its preference to be 2nd to Heaven Swimming pool tea. Zhen Heng. [citation needed]
Jie Tea

Jie Tea () from Chang Xing in Zhejiang Province () is superb and very regarded, though rather pricey.

NB: “Jie” is the smaller name for “Luo Jie” (). Luo Jie is the label of a mountain surrounding Zhejiang and Jing Qi where, throughout the Ming dynasty, “jie” suggested border. Chang Xin lay to the south of Luo Jie mountain while Jing Qi placed to the north of it. Chang Xin still maintains its label today.

Luo yeye shi chou Jie tea from Gu Chu hill in Chang Xing county in Zhejiang was also understood as Gu Chu Voilet Shoot. Gu Chu Voilet Shoot had actually been imperial memorial tea since the Tang empire for nearly 9 century up until the center of the Qin dynasty. Gu Chu Voilet Shoot was restored once again in the seventies as a leading grade tea in China.

NB. Jin Qi is now called Yi Xin township. Jin Qi tea was also referred to as Yang Xian tea. Ruo Leaves are leaves from Indocalamus tessellatus bamboo. The fallen leave is about 45 centimeters long.

Liu An Tea

“Liu An” tea () is utilized for Chinese medication, although if it is not cooked right, it can not allow out its aroma and has a bitter preference. The inherent high quality of this tea is really rather great. Wen Zhenheng

This kind of tea is particularly suitable for people who are struggling with intestinal issue.

Note: Liu An is a county in Anhui District () in China. Liu An tea is still produced in Liu A region. The Liu An tea from the Bat Cavern of Jin Zai () county is of superior quality, as hundred of bats in the cavern could give a perfect fertilizer for the tea plants.

Song Luo Tea

Track Luo tea is manufactured at Tune Luo mountain found north of Xiu Ning township () in An Hui province () in China. The tea ranches are spread at an altitude of 6 to 7 hundred meters on the hill.

There is no actual Song Luo tea grown up outside a location of a dozen mu \* and a single or 2 families possess the refined capability to prep Song Luo tea. The tea hand-baked lately by hill monks ares much better.

Real Tune Luo tea is generated at the foot of the Dong Shan (Cave Hillside) and in addition to the Tian Chi (Heaven Swimming pool), strongly treasured by individuals in Xin’a County. It is likewise a favorite for the people of Nan Du and Qu Zong counties, due to its ease in brewing and intense scent.

One mu = 667 square meters.

Dragon Well Tea and Eyes on Paradise Tea

Long Jing tea () and Tian Mu () tea could match Heaven Swimming pool tea because of the weather in their expanding regions. Since the winter season comes earlier to the mountains, there is rich snow in the winter season, for this reason the tea plants sprout later. [Wen Zhenheng]
Long Jing tea is produced in the West Lake () district in Hangzhou city, China. There is a Longjing (Dragon Well) on the Feng Huang mountain (). Tian Mu mountain is found in Lin A region () in the north west of Zhejiang district (). There are 2 1500-meter tops, each with a fish pond on top packed with crystal clear water resembling an eye, for this reason the name of Eyes on Heaven.

Selections

Environment-friendly tea

White tea

African-american tea

Oolong tea

Pu-erh tea

Yellow tea

Chrysanthemum tea

Jasmine tea

Kudin tea

Medical tea

Quick tea (Instant tea)

Movies

2007 – All In This Tea. Co-directed by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht.

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