One of the earliest teas produced in Junshan, Dongting Lake, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, Junshan Silver Needle, is a tea with great characteristics, its shape is as tight and uniform as a silver needle, the whole body is covered with pekoe, the tea buds are golden yellow, and it is called "gold inlaid jade", which shows its beautiful appearance, exquisite and elegant.
Junshan silver needle tea has been famous as early as the Tang Dynasty and has a long history. According to legend, when Princess Wencheng got married, she specially selected Junshan silver needle tea to bring into Tibet as a personal item, which shows that this tea has long been a beloved object of the royal family. During the Qing Dynasty, the Junshan Silver Needle was listed as a tribute, establishing an important position as one of its top ten famous teas.
Among the many yellow tea strains, the most fascinating thing about Junshan silver needle is its excellent ornamentation, according to the "Baling County Chronicle": "Junshan tea is tender and green like a lotus heart." According to this, the high-quality characteristics of Junshan silver needles jumped on the paper, "Junshan tea tastes like a dragon well, and the leaves are slightly wide and green. "Repeatedly described its brown color and taste, giving people a double enjoyment of taste and vision." Some people describe junshan silver needle as "a green snail in a silver plate", and the artistic beauty of color and fragrance brought by natural quality has conquered the love of tea lovers for generations. Junshan silver needles from leaves to tea, from brewing into the water every link is fascinating. Watching tea and tasting tea is the greatest enjoyment of the senses and taste, maintaining a quiet and peaceful pious heart, and feeling the most beautiful gifts of nature.
If you want to taste the mellow taste of Junshan silver needles, you must identify the real Junshan silver needles, from buds into tea, Junshan silver needles have undergone a strict picking process for more than ten days, after no less than 78 hours of quenching and screening, and finally presented is indeed a masterpiece. Junshan dry tea, sniff to distinguish the smell, identify the inherent fragrance of tea, if the tea aroma is pure and natural, no peculiar smell is real tea, if it has a stiff and fishy smell or other odor, it is a fake tea. For tea lovers whose smell alone is not enough to distinguish the tea, you can take a small amount of tea leaves and roast them with fire, and the smell of real tea and fake tea can be distinguished.
Junshan silver needle tea making process is very strict, the tea leaves are all made of selected buds, buds are full of white, delicate and delicate. The colors are bright and beautiful, the buds are strong, and the tea buds are evenly sized, like neat silver needles arranged, which is pleasing to the eye. The most remarkable feature of junshan silver needle is that after brewing in boiling water, the green tea leaves are like mighty and solemn soldiers, standing upright in the water, which is spectacular. After the high flush, even if the tea leaves are full and sink to the bottom of the water, they still stand up after a few seconds, flying and dancing, and always standing majestically. Whether the tea is good or not, the final judgment still depends on the brew, and the properties of good tea can be distinguished by a bubble.
Therefore, how to brew Junshan silver needle is a topic that has to be said, Junshan silver needle is a very special yellow tea category, elegant and pleasant, sometimes quiet and long, sometimes rich and intoxicating, its tea aroma is dreamlike, very charming. In addition, tasting Junshan silver needles needs to pay great attention to ornamentality, and brewing technology and procedures are particularly critical.
The best way to taste the silver needle of Junshan is to use clear mountain spring water, and the tea set is made of transparent and exquisite glass, or crystal glass, which is very suitable for ornamental tasting.
The height of the cup the diameter of the cup mouth needs to be carefully considered according to the needs of ornamentation, and the amount of tea used in each cup is about 3 grams, too much and too little is not conducive to appreciating the posture of tea flipping.
Preheat the teacup with boiling water at the beginning of the tasting, clean the tea set, and then wipe it clean and keep it dry to avoid the tea buds from standing up well due to water absorption.
The warm boiling water of about 70 degrees Celsius, first fast and then slowly high, into the glass containing the tea, and the mountain spring water is added to 1/2, so that the tea buds are soaked. Wait a few moments, then rush high until seven or eight points full, and wait.
Leave on for about 5 minutes to remove the lid. Junshan silver needles are soaked by spring water, and you can see that the tea buds are gradually upright, sinking and floating, and there are crystal bubbles on the tip of the buds. This is the unique brewing atmosphere of Junshan Silver Needle, which is a tea characteristic that deters other teas.
Junshan silver needle is a special tea based on ornamental nourishment, tasting tea in the viewing and watching in the tea tasting. The ornamental tea complements each other and complements each other. The newly brewed Junshan silver needle is first lying on the water, like a spring bud creeping on the ground, taking a short breath, the tea buds have absorbed water and sunk, and the bud tips instantly produce bubbles, and stand up in the air with brushes, forming a very beautiful and wonderful picture.
Not only that, the upright tea buds that sink into the bottom of the cup will float again under the action of bubble buoyancy, and then slowly sink, so repeatedly, sinking up and down, it is really wonderful. Gently open the lid of the cup, a wisp of white mist rises from the cup, and then slowly disappears. After watching the wonderful tea dance scene, take the cup and smell the fragrance, and your heart is full of comfort and satisfaction, and you can concentrate on tasting tea.
In a cup of three tastes of life, the taste is not exhausted. Tasting the silver needle of Junshan Mountain can not only be pleasing to the eye, but also wash the soul, feel life, and get the sublimation of the soul in the tasting of tea.