Everyone knows that China's tea culture has a long history and is also the birthplace of tea. Even though the tea ceremony known to the public comes from Japan, China's vast geography also makes tea a variety of different and different. In a sense, tea from different origins in China also has different styles and temperaments. If you want to list one of the most famous Chinese tea leaves, it can be said that there are too many. But to say that there is a famous Chinese tea with a historical story, there is a kind of tea that is worth mentioning!
Tea is temperamental for Chinese, because in China it is spread throughout different mountains and rivers, just as the dialects of different provinces are different. Some are refreshing, some are rich, some are bitter, and some are sweet, and it is precisely because of the different characteristics of different regions that the tea leaves are produced, which will be born with the charm of the exclusive Orient.
Most people who understand tea know that 30° north latitude is the world's recognized golden tea belt, which happens to be located here in Qimen County, Anhui Province, China. There is also a unique geographical condition for the growth of tea, that is, more than 90% of the territory of Qimen is mountainous, the mountains are crisscrossed by rivers and streams, the overall climate is mild and pleasant, the temperature difference between morning and evening is also large enough, more than 85% of the forest coverage rate and other conditions, very suitable for the growth of tea plants. In particular, the reasonable proportion of sunny, cloudy and rainy days here each year also allows the aromatic compounds of tea to be effectively accumulated.
The most notable Keemun black tea is produced in Keemun, Anhui, and its flower-like and fruity aroma is one of the most fascinating reasons. This wonderful experience cannot be described in words, but also requires you to see, smell and taste it yourself. Some Keemun black tea lovers have also invented the term "Keemun Xiang" to concisely describe the sweetness of Keemun black tea.
Before the Guangxu Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Qimen County only produced green tea, and almost no black tea. However, black tea on the market is more popular with people, and the sales profit is more impressive. Yu Ganchen, Hu Yunlong and others in Anhui province found this demand and began to grow black tea. Keemun is the natural choice of tea, the natural conditions are superior, and soon made the color, aroma, taste, shape of the best black tea, so keemun black tea occupies the hegemony of the black tea market, has the reputation of "black tea queen". It is also worth mentioning that Keemun black tea, Assam black tea, Darjeeling black tea and Ceylon Highland black tea are also called the four major teas in the black tea world.
Everyone knows that the British like to drink afternoon tea and are also the world's first importer of black tea. Keemun black tea in the eyes of the British is the best of tea, especially the British royal family is very fond of it, drinking Keemun black tea in the Uk is a major embodiment of aristocratic temperament. When Queen Elizabeth II visited China in 1986, the national gift given to her at that time was Keemun black tea.
Throughout his life, Stalin was also fond of tea, and even in wartime he regarded tea as a meal. On Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, knowing that he liked to drink tea, Chairman Mao specially gave him Keemun black tea as a congratulatory gift. The remaining Qi black tea box that Stalin drank from that year is still on display in the Russian museum.
China's Keemun black tea has a great influence even on the whole of Europe. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was rumored that The British and Russian tea merchants fought each other at the Hankou Wharf in order to compete for the Keemun black tea of the first spring. There is also Dumas's famous book "La Traviata", which describes the decline of a nobleman, and must write that this nobleman cannot even drink Keemun black tea. It can be seen that when apple mobile phones were first listed in China, a very few fanatical Chinese people even sold kidneys to buy apple phones.