A probe into the Beauty of Tea Garden

In the footsteps of Hu Zhongyi, Director of Agriculture and Food, he personally visited the Huadong Tea Garden to see who was the master of the tea.

Taiwanese love to drink tea, but few people really go to the producing area to explore the appearance of tea. In order to make more people feel the beauty of Taiwan's tea countryside, the Agriculture and Food Administration launched the "Development highlight tea house Project" in 2014, which selects high-quality tea house every year. In 2020, tea house, the 33 most distinctive bright spot in Taiwan, was selected, and a series of trips were carefully planned in combination with the characteristics of natural ecology, tea culture, rural life, history and humanities in the tea area. Let's follow in the footsteps of Hu Zhongyi, director of the Agriculture and Food Administration, to personally visit the Huadong tea garden to make tea, make tea, and taste tea, and start from the body and mind to deeply experience the life in the tea village.

Tea, tea making, tea egg roll DIY organic tea garden is full of life

In the Jiafang organic tea garden near the Chulu pasture in Taitung, the fragrance of tea leaves is faint in the fresh air. Wearing the tea woman's bamboo hat, tying the headscarf, and carrying a good bamboo basket around the waist, he picked two leaves of one heart under the guidance of Chen Lixue, the owner of the tea garden. Because there are no pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides, ladybugs and other creatures can be seen when picking, and the land is full of vitality.

The organic tea garden does not apply pesticides and chemical fertilizers and is rich in ecology.

Because of the organic and friendly land, the freshly picked tea cyanines are washed and beaten into green tea juice, seasoned with plum juice and honey, and become a healthy tea rich in catechins, not only without the astringency of grass, but also with elegant fragrance of tea in sweet and sour, cool and delicious to quench thirst.

In addition, Jiafang organic tea garden will grind the tea into powder, mix it with flour and sesame into paste, and make red oolong egg rolls on the spot, with strong egg aroma and fresh tea products, which is particularly satisfying. Even give full play to creativity, launch DIY activities such as stir-fried ice, natural tea fragrance detergent and jade bags to interact with consumers and convey the concept of organic tea.

Taitung red oolong with mellow flavor and unique flavor

The next stop is to the Luye Tea District in Taitung. In addition to watching the special beauty of the hot air balloon, you can also go to tea house to taste Taitung's characteristic tea red oolong, which is also one of the special journeys that should not be missed. Red Oolong not only has the ripe taste of black tea, but also retains the aroma and sweet flavor of oolong tea.

Stepping into the Linwang tea factory, this is the first tea factory in Taitung that has passed the ISO22000 certification and passed the five-star health and safety of the Agriculture and Food Department. Lin Yaojing, owner of the tea factory, says that the production process of red oolong tea is complicated, and it takes a long time to stir, knead, and ferment. It belongs to heavily fermented tea. If it is properly preserved, it can also be collected as old tea. The longer the time, the more layered the flavor.

In addition to tasting tea, Linwang Tea Factory offers an interesting experience of DIY, hollowing out the flesh of local lemon or grapefruit, tucking the tea into the belly of the fruit, and after three months of steaming and drying, it becomes lemon and grapefruit-flavored tangerine peel tea. the tea soup with citrus fruit flavor is moist and unastringent, suitable for a leisurely and quiet afternoon.

Director of Agriculture and Food Administration Hu Zhongyi and his wife jointly experienced the DIY activity of lemon and orange peel tea.

Lemon orange peel dried after three times steaming and drying.

Take a bite of sweeter black tea and symbiosis with the small green leafhopper.

After leaving Taitung, he went north with Director Hu Zhongyi to Hualien. Hualien's honey-scented black tea is also the most characteristic tea in Huadong nowadays. Looking at the coastal mountains in the distance, through the layers of mountains, we and Hu Zhongyi, director of Agriculture and Food Administration, came to Hualien Wuhe, the birthplace of honey-scented black tea. The emergence of honey-fragrant black tea can be said to be inadvertently inserted into willow shade. Although the leaves absorbed by the small green leafhopper cause the tea to curl and shrink, it makes the buds produce aroma compounds, and the black tea produced exudes the fragrance of flowers and fruits.

If you want to know more about the tea-making process of Honey-scented Black Tea, you can first go to the Honey-fragrant Black Tea Ecological Story of Jiaming Tea Garden in Ruisui Township. Tea garden provides tea cocktail experience DIY, with tea as the base, adding different wines and fruit juices, slightly with a hint of wine in the tea aroma, refreshing and smooth taste. Kao Yi-ting, the second generation of tea from Jiaming Tea Garden, says that all the ingredients are domestic, and if people like it, they can write down the recipe and go home to make it for fun. Friends who like to drink old tea can also make an appointment for Tuo tea experience, steaming tea, rolling and shaping it with wooden utensils. After being left in the shape of a top for a month, it will become a precious old tea that can be stored for more than ten years.

Tuocha DIY in Mizui Jiaming Tea Garden can experience the process of molding steamed tea leaves with wooden utensils.

Dongxing Tea Company, also located in Mizuho Tea area, Taichi 9, produces honey-scented black tea by natural farming method, and has won the world championship in 2006 and the gold medal in the international famous tea competition in 2010. In recent years, the tea garden has combined with Arabica coffee produced by Wuhe to develop saffron mandarin ducks with black coffee taste, which can not be missed by those who like to taste black coffee and black tea.

Further north, you can visit the Ji'an Township Peasants Association Health crop processing Plant to provide various health plants and Chinese herbal medicine processing, OEM, tea bag production and other services. a variety of advanced processing equipment in the factory can make ultrasonic tea bags. a low-temperature drying machine that retains the primary color of dried fruit. Processed agricultural products made through advanced agricultural technology not only improve the economic efficiency of agricultural products, but also let us see the new value of agriculture in Taiwan.

Dongfeng Tea Company has set up an exhibition area to introduce a variety of characteristic tea.

The Ji'an Peasants' Association Health crop processing Plant uses a low-temperature drying machine to keep the dried fruit bright and lustrous.

Light up the tea village and feel the beauty of the tea village.

Hu Zhongyi, director of the Agriculture and Food Administration, said that every year, experts and scholars from the production, government and academic circles are invited to carefully select the bright spot tea house, and it is coached and improved by the Agriculture and Food Department. 33 are distributed all over Taiwan this year, in addition to tea house, the other highlights tea house also has a lot of rich tea experience, as well as different flavors of tea and historical evolution, and many tea house launches an one-day tour with surrounding scenic spots. Different seasons are suitable for a trip to tea house, bathed in the fragrance of tea, feel the different details of Taiwan's tea culture.

In addition to the well-known honey-scented black tea, Dongchu Tea Company has developed black tea with coffee taste, which has its own characteristics.