West Lake Longjing is produced in the West Lake District of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and is one of the famous teas in China, which belongs to the flat-shaped fried green tea. If you want to compare the West Lake to the West Lake, it has never been a good tea like a beauty, for thousands of years, Hangzhou is not only famous for the beauty of the West Lake, but also famous at home and abroad because of the West Lake Longjing. Famous tea history Tang Dynasty "tea saint" Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" has a record of "Hangzhou Tianzhu and Lingyin Second Temple tea production", and Tianzhu and Lingyin Temple are located in Hangzhou West Lake Lake West, so West Lake Longjing Tea has a history of more than a thousand years. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the great poet Su Dongpo wrote plaques such as "Old Longjing" for the Longjing Tea District of the West Lake, and still exist on the hanging rock at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in the Hugong Temple of Guangfuyuan and 18 imperial tea gardens. In the Qing Dynasty, when the Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan, he came to Longjing many times to watch the tea picking process, and praised it after tasting the Longjing tea in front of the Hugong Temple of Lion Peak in Longjing, not only sealing 18 tea trees as "imperial tea", but also inscribing the poem "Eight Views of Longjing", adding a color to the legend of Longjing tea.
Longjing tea is known as "green color, fragrant, sweet taste, and beautiful shape". From the appearance point of view, the tea leaves are flat shaped, the leaves are delicate, the strips are neat, the color is yellow-green instead of emerald green, and the feel is smooth, one bud and one leaf or two leaves. The tea soup is green and bright, if the water quality is hard, the color of the tea soup will be slightly lighter; the taste is fresh and mellow, and the aroma is strong. After brewing, the bottom of the leaves is uniform, the color is yellow-green, and the leaf surface is complete.
Longjing tea is divided into West Lake Longjing, Qiantang Longjing, Yuezhou Longjing, etc. according to the region, and the most respected quality of Longjing tea is West Lake Longjing, and the best quality in West Lake Longjing is Shifeng Longjing. West Lake Longjing is divided into five core production areas of lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum. The "lion" name is produced in the Area of Longjing Shifeng, the "Dragon" character number is produced in the area of Longjing and Wengjiashan Mountain, the "Yun" character number is produced in the area of Yunqi and Wuyun Mountain, the "Tiger" character number is produced in the Area of Hupao, and the "Mei" character number is produced in the area of Meijiawu.
The production process of Longjing tea
The excellent quality of West Lake Longjing is inseparable from its delicate picking process. The picking of tea leaves is very exquisite, generally picking a bud and a leaf and a bud and two leaves as raw materials, after spreading, frying green pot, resurgence, sieving, glow pot, sorting and sorting, ash storage and other processes. Every spring, tea farmers will pick Longjing tea four times, and the three days before the Qingming Dynasty are picked as "Mingqian Tea", which is expensive and rare. It is said that a skilled picking girl can pick 12 tea buds in a whole day, a pound of dry tea has about 3600 tea buds, how many Jiangnan girls need to pick can be imagined, which shows how precious The Mingqian tea is, it has always been called a gem in the treasures.
The stir-frying method of Longjing tea is more complicated, according to different fresh leaves to select different stages of stir-frying, people will take "shake, tie, pinch, expand, fling, buckle, push, grasp, pressure, grind" ten methods. The delicate hand-picking process and the pure hand-fired process have achieved the four best in Longjing.
