Red Network Moment News December 1 news (reporter Song Peishan correspondent Liu Xiaoling) On November 30, experts and scholars from the tea industry in the province gathered at the source of the Canal River in Xinhua County, the source of Huhong, to find ancient tea, take the ancient tea horse road, experience the ancient processing and production process of xinhua black tea, and advocate a healthy tea drinking culture.
Xinhua black tea began in the Jin Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Chang in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, flourished in the Republic of China and contemporary times, has a history of more than 1500 years, is a famous tribute tea production area in history, but also the source and birthplace of Hunan black tea. In 1941, the "Tea of Hunan Province" recorded, "The Xianghong of Xinhua and Anhua, together with Qi Hong and Jianhong, are the authentic chinese black tea." At the Panama International Exposition in 1915, Xinhuabao Dalongxing Black Tea won the "Honorary Medal", which is a veritable century-old famous tea.
Local tea plantations.
In the past thousand years of tea history precipitation, Xinhua black tea has formed a unique tea planting, tea making, tea drinking and tea ceremony, tea customs, tea ceremony, tea song, tea tone and other tea culture, the county people have a kind of tea, drinking tea, tea to entertain guests, and in a variety of sacrifices must use fragrant tea, the county territory also left hundreds of ancient tea pavilions and ancient tea houses, tea horse ancient road, tea horse waterway traces are still clear. It can be said that Xinhua black tea is an important origin and birthplace of Hunan black tea. At the end of the 1980s, Xinhua black tea and red crushed tea were rated as high-quality products by the province and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Commerce, and were well-known throughout the country, exported to the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Egypt, Russia and other countries, and Xinhua County was listed as a national commodity tea export base.
A glance at the tea brigade scenic spots.
Located in the depths of the Purple Quejie Rice Terraces, the source of the Canal River in the hinterland of the Deep Mountain, its unique geography, climatic environment and slate shale soil contain unique quality tribute tea leaves. Qujiangyuan has a long history of tea production, and the "Tea Recipe" written by Mao Wenxi of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms records: "There is a Canal River between Tanshao, there is tea, and the Qujiang Flakes are as colored as iron, and the aroma is abnormal, and the cooking is not easy." In the Ming Dynasty", "Tongya" is recorded, "The thin slice of Qujiang, this Tea Producing Place and Name of the Tang and Song Dynasties." According to the "Chronicle of Xinhua County", there are three tributes offered by Xinhua Gong to the court: Purple Que Jie Gong Rice, Dragon Tooth Lily, and Qujiang Flakes. To this day, there is a 400-year-old tea tree left in the Wuerchong Gong Tea Garden, which has been protected by the locals.
In terms of theaflavin content, Xinhua black tea has outstanding performance, and good mountains and good water have achieved the unique quality of "clear, sweet, mellow and soft" in Qujiangyuan, which is rich in endoplasm, with nectar fragrance and sweet umami taste. Qujiang black tea soup is orange yellow, theaflavin content is extremely high, theaflavin is the most important quality factor in black tea, known as the "soft gold" in tea, with the effect of regulating blood lipids and preventing cardiovascular diseases. The transparency of the tea soup is more transparent, the freshness is higher, the sweetness and nectar fragrance are more intense, and the new black tea with honey flavor left in the mouth is the treasure of Hunan black tea, which is commonly known as "one gram of theaflavin, ten soft gold". With the improvement of people's living standards, the health value of tea has become more and more prominent, and new black tea has become more and more popular among consumers.