Long Zigang and his "English Girl"

"A wisp of tea fragrance crowns Guzhang, floating day and night in a dream. Sipping slowly and swallowing three or two cups, the immortals invited me to go a different way. " "Master Tang" sitting opposite me is actually a beautiful woman in her early 20s. She is the chief tea artist at the Guzhang flagship store of "Yingmeizi" tea. After three cups of golden and bright black tea, she feels warm and comfortable. In return, I secretly presented her with a poem called "Yingmei Black Tea" for self-amusement.

Less inclined, the owner here-long Zigang, chairman of the Yingmeizi tea industry, hurried in, holding up a few small bags of tea in his hand, "have a taste of this." When I got together in Tea City in May last year, I claimed that my greatest feature was: "you can't find me in the crowd." when I saw this fierce and gentle Xiangxi man again, he talked about his book of tea again without suspense.

Dare to eat crabs.

After drinking tea all my life, I became a monk halfway through the process of making tea. From tasting tea, appreciating tea, loving tea, infatuated tea to devoting oneself to the tea industry, what you give is all, but what you get is a kind of responsibility. Although long Zigang usually doesn't say much, when it comes to tea, he talks like Guyang River.

Born and raised in the tea village, long Zigang learned to pick tea, stir-fry tea, drink tea and enter the university campus, but what he studied was clothing design. This doesn't seem to match tea, but he always likes to invite three or five friends to brew a pot after work. Over time, he has become a master of the tea ceremony, and it is at the advice of his tea friend Lao Kuang that he resolutely turned around and founded the Yingmeizi tea industry.

With his familiarity with the tea ceremony, at the beginning of his business, he boldly proposed not only to be English girl Guzhang Maojian and English girl tea seed oil, but also to be English girl black tea. Not to mention Guzhang, the whole of Xiangxi, before stir-frying green tea, there is no concept of black tea at all, let alone set up black tea enterprises? If you screw up, that set of tea-making equipment alone will cost more than 10 million.

Long Zigang is confident not only to make black tea, but also to make China's top black tea. He said that Xiangxi is in a microbial fermentation belt, and black tea fermentation has unique conditions in Xiangxi, so he is not afraid of not being able to make the best black tea in China.

Long Zi just went to Zhejiang, Fujian and other places and went to great pains to find several well-known experts and scholars in the country. when long Zigang expressed his ideas, the experts were happy: "how dare you!" Yes, since ancient times, Xiangxi has never produced black tea, and long has started a black tea enterprise since it first came up, which is not what ordinary people dare to do. A friend later said with a smile: "Gangpan accidentally became the father of Xiangxi black tea!" Long Zigang blushed and waved his hands again and again: "Don't dare, don't dare, at most a foodie, and you dare to eat crabs."

Build a dream to comb the hair stream

Viewed from the stream, the mountains and rivers are shrouded in clouds all the year round, and there is a strange peak on the opposite mountain, which looks like a beautiful girl combing her hair in the mirror, so it is named the comb-hair Creek, and the village by the stream is called the comb-head Creek Village. From the side of the stream to the top of the mountain, there is a green tea mountain. The workshop and production workshop of Yingmeizi Tea Industry are located between the tea gardens with beautiful mountains and clear rivers and continuous peaks.

On July 27, 2011, the modern production line of Yingmeizi tea industry was officially put into production, which was also a good day for long Zigang to realize his dream of Satouxi. Li Weiwei, then member of the standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee and minister of the United Front work Department of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee, personally started the production line.

Quality assurance

It is the best time to pick tea before and after the Qingming Festival, and men, women and children from Shuhaixi join forces.

However, the Qingming Festival is also the season for Rain Water. According to the technological requirements, one day after the rain stops, the garden can pick tea.

But it rained for two days in a row that year, and the villagers were very anxious to see that the tea was "old" and did not listen to dissuade the rain to pick and send it to the factory. The quality inspectors insisted on the principle and firmly refused to accept it, and individual tea farmers did not understand: "in previous years, we also picked wet tea at home. Why can't such a good machine stir-fry?" Aren't you trying to trick us? "

The matter reflected where long Zigang was. On the one hand, it was the villagers who shared weal and woe; on the other hand, the quality inspector strictly checked the fresh leaves and considered it again and again. Long Zigang gave the quality inspector an opportunity and asked him to collect the wet leaves first to appease the villagers. In the evening, he quietly poured out these nearly 3000 jin of wet leaves, and several employees poured tears as they poured out their hearts.

After a few days, long Zi just invited the villagers to visit the workshop for the first time. The villagers were puzzled by changing clothes, disinfecting and passing through the glass. He patiently explained to them the technological process from the fresh leaf drying rack to the finished product packaging, and the villagers gradually understood the relationship between this strict process and the quality of black tea. Uncle Tian, who has more than 30 years of experience in stir-frying tea in a family workshop, said with emotion, "the enterprise belongs to everyone. If we send wet leaves and smash the brand of the enterprise, it will affect not only the overall interests of the dragon, but also the interests of our entire Saitouxi tea farmers. In the future, we will never send wet leaves again, even if the dragon cannot adhere to his principles one day, we must supervise him!" Since then, no one has ever sent wet leaves.

And in the Yingmeizi tea industry Guzhang flagship store, Jishou factory store, Changsha flagship store and other stores can see a beautiful and chic Yingmei tea, peer A Bing can not put it down, even called it a master work, but how are they all packed in small bags? Who knows long Zigang laughed: "what master works, these inner packaging, outer packaging are my design, but also applied for a patent, as for each bag of three grams of small packaging, is at the beginning of the design considering that tea is the most easy to oxidize and absorb peculiar smell, if the unpacking can not be used for a few days, the quality will decline."

For the "Yingmeizi" tea industry, 2015 was a year of bumper harvest: on April 26, the enterprise won the gold and silver awards of the first Asia-Pacific Tea Awards; on September 20, it was recognized as the "National Ecological Tea Garden demonstration Base" and "the 30 most Beautiful Tea plantations in the country" by the China Association for the Promotion of International Agricultural Cooperation. On October 26, it was certified by the Green Food Management Office of the Ministry of Agriculture. " In fact, as early as two years ago, Yingmeizi Tea Industry hired five foreign experts from Sweden and Austria as senior technical engineers and technical guidance of the company, and with the strong support of the county tea bureau, has applied for EU organic certification and obtained the "Organic Certification conversion Certificate."

From Miaozhai Garden to EU certification, long Zigang firmly believes that the future will be better!