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Where is tea a specialty? What are the top ten famous teas in China?

Published: 2024-09-19 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/09/19, Chinese tea has a long history, where is the specialty of tea, there are all kinds of tea varieties, colorful, competing for beauty, like a hundred gardens in spring, making thousands of miles of mountains and rivers particularly enchanting. For example, Tieguanyin is produced in Anxi, Fujian, and Dahongpao is Wuyi Mountain in Fujian.

Chinese tea has a long history, where is the specialty of tea, there are all kinds of tea varieties, colorful, competing for beauty, like a hundred gardens in spring, making thousands of miles of mountains and rivers particularly enchanting. For example, Tieguanyin is produced in Anxi, Fujian, and Dahongpao is Wuyi Mountain in Fujian. Now I'd like to introduce to you what are the top ten famous teas in China.

Chinese tea has a long history and a wide variety, which can be divided into traditional famous tea and historical famous tea, so China's "top ten famous teas" have been said in many ways in the past:

The 1915 Panama World Expo listed Biluochun, Xinyang Maojian Tea, Xihu Longjing Tea, Junshan Silver Needle Tea, Huangshan Maofeng, Wuyi Rock Tea, Keemun Black Tea, Duyun Maojian, Tieguanyin and Liu'an Guapian as the top ten famous teas in China.

Nanjing Yuhua Tea, Dongting Biluochun, Huangshan Maofeng, Lushan Yunwu Tea, Liu'an Guapian, Junshan Silver Needle Tea, Xinyang Maojian Tea, Wuyi Rock Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin Tea and Keemun Black Tea will be listed as the top ten famous teas in China in 1959.

In 1999, Jiefang Daily listed Jiangsu Biluochun, Xihu Longjing Tea, Anhui Maofeng, Liu'an Guapian, Enshi Yulu, Fujian Tieguanyin, Fujian Silver Needle, Yunnan Pu'er Tea, Fujian Yuncha Tea and Jiangxi Yunwu Tea as the top ten famous teas in China.

In 2001, the Associated Press and New York Daily listed Huangshan Maofeng, Dongting Biluochun, Mengding nectar, Xinyang Maojian Tea, Xihu Longjing Tea, Duyun Maojian, Lushan Yunwu, Anhui melon slices, Anxi Tieguanyin Tea and Suzhou jasmine as the top ten famous teas in China.

In 2002, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po listed Xihu Longjing Tea, Jiangsu Biluochun, Anhui Maofeng, Hunan Junshan Silver Needle Tea, Xinyang Maojian Tea, Anhui Qimenhong, Anhui Guapian, Duyun Maojian, Wuyi Rock Tea and Fujian Tieguanyin as the top ten famous teas in China.

Famous tea specialties from various places

Longjing tea area is located on the Xiushan mountains on the banks of the West Lake. Here near the lake and mountains, mild climate, perennial clouds, abundant rainfall, coupled with loose soil structure, fertile soil, tea trees with deep roots and luxuriant leaves, perennial green.

Legend has it that once upon a time there was a desolate village in Longjing Mountain where there was an old woman who lived in a broken hut and made a living by picking the tender leaves of eighteen tea trees planted behind the house. She is kind to the people and often cooks tea at the door for those who come into the mountain to pick it up.

Liuan Guapian is a national historical tea and one of the top ten classic green teas in China. Liu'an melon slices (also known as slice tea) is a special kind of green tea. Collected from the local unique varieties, by pulling pieces, removing buds and tea stalks, through the unique traditional processing technology to make a piece of tea shaped like melon seeds.

Huangshan Maofeng tea originated in the reign of Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty. Huangshan tea is very fine. It is recognized that the picking period is from Ming to the Beginning of Summer, and the buds and fresh leaves should be selected to remove the older leaves and stems to make the buds uniform. In the aspect of production, the killing temperature should be controlled according to the quality of bud leaves, so as not to produce the phenomenon of uneven penetration of red stalks, red leaves and killing green leaves; the fire temperature should be high at first and then low, gradually decreased, the temperature of the leaves was uniform, and the physical and chemical changes were consistent.

Jun Mountain in Dongting Lake in Hunan Province produces the famous Silver Needle Tea. It is said that the first seed of Jun Mountain tea was sown by Emperor E and Nu Ying more than 4, 000 years ago. Li Siyuan, the second emperor of the post-Tang Dynasty, was in the first dynasty when the courtiers made a cup of tea for him. As soon as the boiling water was poured into the cup, he saw a white fog rising into the air and a white crane appeared slowly.

Anxi Tieguanyin Tea is one of the famous oolong teas in China. Anxi Tieguanyin Tea tea is produced in Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. Anxi Tieguanyin Tea tea has a long history and is known as the king of tea. It is reported that Anxi Tieguanyin Tea tea originated in the reign of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1725-1735). Anxi County is mountainous, the climate is warm, the rainfall is sufficient, the tea tree grows luxuriantly, the tea tree variety is various, colorful, the crown is absolutely national. Anxi Tieguanyin Tea tea, a year can pick four stages of tea, divided into spring tea, summer tea, summer tea, autumn tea. Spring tea is the best tea making quality. The climate of tea picking day is better with north wind on sunny days, and the quality of the tea picked is the best. Therefore, the local tea picking is mostly carried out from 10:00 to 3 pm on a sunny day, and the production process of Tieguanyin is basically the same as that of ordinary oolong tea, but the shaking speed is more and the cooling time is shorter.

Xinyang Maojian Tea is mainly produced in some high and shallow mountain areas of villages and towns such as Yihe Port, Dongjiahe River, Wujiadian Township in the west of Xinyang City, Henan Province, Dongshuanghe, Liulin, Lijiazhai, Tanjiahe, Shisanliqiao and Pingqiao Town in Pingqiao District.

In the late years of Qing Guangxu (1903-1905), Cai Zuxian, a member of the old tea industry office and the anti-smuggling leader of the Qing government living in Xinyang, put forward the initiative of opening up mountains to grow tea. Gan Zhouyuan, who was once the director of Xinyang Persuasion Institute and had a strong source of funds, responded positively. Together with Prince Mo and landlord Peng Qingge, he resumed growing tea at the northern foot of Zhenlei Mountain in Xinyang in 1903 and set up a "Yuanzhen" tea house. A tea master surnamed Yu was invited from Anhui to help guide the cultivation and production of tea trees.

One of the famous green teas in China. Dongting Biluochun Tea is produced in Dongting Mountain, Taihu Lake, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Taihu Lake is vast, with clear water rippling and misty waves. Dongting Mountain is located on the shore of Taihu Lake. Dongshan is a peninsula like a giant boat extending into Taihu Lake. Xishan is an island standing in the lake a few kilometers apart. Xishan has a mild climate, warm in winter and cool in summer, fresh air and clouds, which is a unique environment for the growth of tea trees. In addition, fine picking and exquisite workmanship have formed unique quality characteristics.

Duyun Maojian is one of the top ten famous teas in China. Produced in Duyun City, Guizhou Province, it belongs to the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southern Guizhou. The shape of the cable is tight, slender and curly, with a green color. The fragrance is high, the taste is fresh and strong, and the bottom of the leaf is green, smooth and bright. Duyun hair tip "three green transparent yellow" characteristics: dry tea color green yellow, soup green yellow, leaf bottom green yellow.

Wuyi rock tea is oolong tea, known as the king of tea, produced in Fujian "Qixiujia southeast" of Wuyi Mountain, tea trees grow in the rock crevice. Wuyi rock tea has the fragrance of green tea and the glycol of black tea. It is one of the top ten famous Chinese oolong teas. Wuyi rock tea is a kind of semi-fermented green tea, the production method is between green tea and black tea, among which the famous Dahongpao is famous all over the world.

The second said: according to legend, during the Qing Dynasty, a scholar went to Beijing for the examination and went to the Tianxin Yongle Zen Temple in Kowloon Nest. he suddenly had abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and then he was given a big red robe tea by the monk of Tianxin Temple. After drinking, he suddenly recovered from illness and was able to rush for the exam on time. Number one in high school.

The legend of the origin of Dahongpao is very good. It is said that in ancient times, a poor scholar went to Beijing to take an exam. When he was passing Wuyi Mountain, he fell ill on the road. Fortunately, he was seen by the old abbot of Tianxin Temple and made a bowl of tea for him to drink. Sure enough, he was cured of his illness. Later, he was named the golden scholar, won the top prize, and was recruited as the east bed horse. One spring day, the number one scholar came to Xie'en in Wuyi Mountain. Accompanied by the old abbot, he hugged back and forth to the Kowloon nest, but he saw three tall tea trees growing on the cliff, with luxuriant branches and leaves, spitting clusters of buds, shining purple-red luster in the sun, really lovely.

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