To say which kind of tea in the tea family can bear the name of "queen", it is naturally the golden flower tea.
The historical origin of jinhua tea can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The young leaves of camellia sinensis are fried, water-panned, edible, and steamed for drinking." From 1930 to 1949, the famous Japanese botanist Tsuyama Shang spent his life trying to find the legendary yellow golden flower tea, and he could not travel all over the mountains and rivers to write "The Adventures of the Fantasy Yellow Camellia". Until 1960-1969, Chinese researchers finally found yellow camellias in Guangxi, which shocked China and foreign countries, and scholars at home and abroad entered Guangxi to investigate. It can be seen that the rarity of golden flower tea.
The name of "Golden Flower" is due to its rare appearance, golden petal jade, petal appearance is crystal clear, waxy luster, bright and beautiful flowers, dotted among the branches of jade leaves, Ting Ting, graceful, full of dignity, is called "Tea Queen".
Limited by geographical conditions, the distribution range of Jinhua tea is narrow and extremely rare, 90% of the world's wild Jinhua tea is distributed in Fangchenggang City, Guangxi, China, known as the "Hometown of Jinhua Tea", and is a national Jinhua Tea Nature Reserve and Jinhua Tea Gene Bank. Golden flower tea has a long cultivation period, and the colonization time is from November to March of the following year, and the best picking period from February to March.
Every year after the light snowfall in November, the camellia trees will gather their strength to take root in the soil and strive to absorb the essence of nature, waiting for the next spring to bloom in one fell swoop and amaze the world.
Until the spring breeze in February and March, the Lanshan branch vein located in fangchenggang City's 100,000 mountains is full of smoke after the rain, the pine and green bamboo, the ancient trees are towering, and the golden flower tea growing in the mountain stream is growing wantonly, "The wax petal golden flower is the first to bloom, and the frost is covered with dew and dust." I am familiar with how sweet and sweet the jade is, and I often provoke the bees to steal honey. "The golden yellow flowers are dotted on the emerald green branches, and the petals are spotless like wax, and the posture is delicate and beautiful. The growing environment on the mountain has forged a tenacious spirit of not being afraid of wind and rain and opening up in the cold, like a noble "queen".
The picking requirements of golden flower tea are very demanding, the picking day must be a sunny morning, hand picking of the first flowers and fresh leaves, can be made into flower tea and leaf tea.
Flowers after processing made of flower tea, the shape of the whole golden flower, the color is golden or brownish yellow, hot water boiling to brew the flower tea, its tea soup is golden yellow, repeated soaking, tea clear and bright, no impurities, tea fragrance is full, into the throat mellow and sweet, after tasting there is still a fragrance stored in the mouth, the aftertaste is endless.
Its leaves are made of golden flower tea leaves after dry stir-frying and exposure, the shape is slender and symmetrical, the leaf body is tight, the tea is moist after soaking in boiling water, it is very resistant to brewing, the tea is mellow, the taste is rich, taste a mouthful of lips and teeth with residual fragrance, fresh breath.
In 2009, Fangchenggang City was awarded the honorary title of "Hometown of Jinhua Tea", and in 2011, it was listed as a "National Geographical Product Protection Mark". In addition, in 2017, the planting area of Jinhua tea ranked first in the world with an area of more than 50,000 mu, and the output was as high as 100,000 kilograms.
Golden Flower Tea is suitable for drinking all year round. Gu Yu tastes tea, tasting is full of mountains of spring, the mountain color is empty of rain and strange infinite spring light; the summer drinking tea, drinking is the grass and trees, the drizzle courtyard smells the leisurely summer of tea; frost boiled tea, boiled is a leaf of autumn, the night into the wind cool white dew warm warm hot tea; heavy snow sencha, frying is cold smoke and twilight rain, "late to the day to snow, can drink a cup of nothing" winter anecdote.
The speed of life is too fast, why not slow down, taste tea, chat about idle things, and experience a poetic life?
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