Hello tea friends, this is the 11th issue of the tea list.
Everyone only knows that Fujian Province has famous teas such as Da Hong Pao, Tie Guanyin, Jin Junmei, and Zhengshan Small Seed.
But what they don't know is that Fujian Province also needs a lot of niche but very characteristic tea leaves.
Today, let's take a look at the unpopular tea leaves in Fujian Province!
1. Zhao'an Eight Immortals Tea
Zhao'an Eight Immortals Tea, belonging to the oolong tea category, is produced in Zhao'an County, Fujian Province.
This tea variety is fragrant, spicy and long-lasting, the taste is thick and resistant to bubbles, the aftertaste is sweet, but the first brew is slightly bitter, very characteristic, so it can be popular in the domestic and foreign markets.
Mr. Zhuang Wanfang, chairman of the China Tea Society and professor of Zhejiang Agricultural University, once said: "The quality of Eight Immortals Tea is excellent, and the aroma is comparable to that of Tieguanyin."
It is precisely because of these excellent qualities that in 2012, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce recognized that "Zhao'an Eight Immortals Tea" was awarded the Chinese National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark.
2. Zhangping Daffodil
Zhangping Shuixian Tea is produced in Zhangping City, Fujian Province, and is a traditional famous tea created by Zhangping tea farmers.
Interestingly, Zhangping Daffodil's square tea cake is made of a certain specification of wooden mold pressed, wrapped in paper, and then baked.
And after wrapping the paper, the charcoal incense will not penetrate into the tea leaves, and the orchid fragrance is very obvious.
As the only tight-pressed tea in the oolong tea category, Zhangping Daffodil has a unique shape, rare quality, unique style, and strong traditional flavor.
Under the double blessing of unique craftsmanship and precious quality, Zhangping Shuixian tea is sold well in western Fujian and Guangdong and Xiamen, and is exported to Southeast Asian countries and regions.
It is worth mentioning that Zhangping Daffodil has also won the gold medal of China Agricultural Expo and China Agricultural and Sideline Products Expo.
3. Yongchun Bergamot
Yongchun bergamot tea belongs to the oolong tea category and is produced in Yongchun County, Fujian Province.
The most prominent feature of Yongchun Bergamot is that its fresh leaves resemble bergamot, hence the name "Bergamot".
The inner aroma of bergamot tea is high-quality, with a unique fruity aroma, and the taste is mellow and sweet, which people cannot forget for a long time after tasting.
Yongchun Bergamot has a history of more than 300 years, and the production process of this tea has been continuously improved for more than 300 years.
In 2008, Yongchun Bergamot Tea was recognized by the state as "China's Famous Brand" and was awarded the honorary title of "China's First Tea for Olympic Bid".
4. Bai Lin Gongfu
Bai Lin Gongfu belongs to Fuding Gongfu Black Tea, which is well-known at home and abroad along with Fu'an County "Tanyang Gongfu" and Zhenghe County "Zhenghe Gongfu" and is listed as "Minhong Three Major Gongfu Tea".
However, Bai Lin Gongfu has always been in a position of being left out in the cold, as if everyone only knows Zhenghe Kung Fu and Tanyang Gongfu.
In fact, the quality of Bai Lin Gongfu agrees to be outstanding, its most prominent feature is that the aroma is pure and licorice aroma, the soup color is light and bright, and it is a good product in Gongfu black tea.
Bai Lin Gongfu enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad for its superb handmade skills and unique and excellent quality, and is also known as the "beautiful queen" by Chinese and foreign tea people.
The production skills of Bailin Gongfu Tea have been passed down for a long time, with unique charm, and have become an extremely valuable intangible cultural heritage of Fuding history, and tea lovers who have the opportunity to go to Bailin must experience it!
5. Longyan oblique back tea
Longyan oblique back tea is a specialty of Silla District, Longyan City, Fujian Province, and belongs to the category of roasted green tea.
Longyan diagonal tea has a long history of more than 300 years, as early as the 1970s was listed as one of the top ten famous teas in Fujian, and is the only high-quality alpine tea in Silla District of Longyan City that has been selected into the "China Tea Classic" "Real Estate Famous Tea List".
The high-quality cross-back tea is unique in its "three yellows and greens" of gray and green with yellow, yellow and green soup, and tender yellow and green at the bottom of the leaves.
The aroma of the tea is long, slightly mugwort, and the taste is thick, like a fresh olive-like aftertaste, which makes people feel ethereal after tasting.
According to legend, the peasant households of Xiebei Village, whose ancestral home is Quanzhou City, first moved from Shunchang to Zhangping Shunchang, and then moved from Shunchang to Longyan City Xiebei Village (also known as Laozhai), which has been passed down for nineteen generations, and generations of people have made a living by making cross-backs.
6. Seven Realms Hall Green Tea
Qijingtang Green Tea, also known as Qijing Green Tea, is produced in Qijingtang in the western part of Luoyuan County, Fujian Province, China.
The color of Seven Realms Green Tea is slightly gray, commonly known as "royal blue", the burst point is obvious, shaped like a firecracker, called "frog skin" (or spot), has the charm of love at first sight.
Moreover, the inner aroma of this tea is fresh and long-lasting, and the chestnut fragrance is floral, and it enjoys a high reputation for "high fragrance, refreshing taste, green color and bubble resistance".
7, Ota Bijincha
Datian beauty tea, belonging to the oolong tea, is produced in Datian County, Fujian Province.
Many people think that only Taiwan has Oriental Beauty Tea, but in fact, there are also Beauty Tea in the mainland, and Daejeon Beauty Tea is an outstanding representative of it.
The Oriental Beauty Tea that many mainlanders drink is actually Datian Beauty Tea.
Datian beauty tea has the characteristics of "three nobles" and a noble "origin": Yangpo pure land, cicada tea is full of naturalness; two noble "posture": colorful and fragrant, like a fairy flying in the sky; three noble "taste": the first opening of the love sinus, sweet and mellow as honey.
The small green leafhopper is perfectly combined with the young buds and young leaves of the tea, and the natural blend is created, which creates the Field Beauty Tea, which is not an Oriental Beauty Tea.
8. White bud Chelan
Baiya Qilan is produced in Pinghe County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, because its production area is 800 meters above sea level, tea plant diseases and insect pests are few, and less pesticides are used.
The finished tea of white bud Chelan is tightly knotted, uniform and beautiful, and the color is blue-brown and oily and slightly honey yellow.
Its inner aroma is clear and refreshing, the variety characteristics of the incense is prominent, like the orchid fragrance is long, with a very prominent mountain bone charm.
In recent years, white bud chelan tea has been sold well in Japan and the European Union and other countries, and has been welcomed by foreign customers.
9. White chicken crown
White chicken crown belongs to the oolong tea category, native to the Yinping Peak Bat Cave in Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, which is quite humanistic.
The White Rooster Crown, together with da hong pao, iron luohan and water golden turtle, is called the "four famous bushes of Wuyi Mountain", and is the most recognizable tea among all rock teas.
The buds of the white chicken crown are peculiar, the leaf color is light green, the green is white, the buds are curved and appear, and the shape is like the crown on the head of the white brocade chicken, so it is called the white chicken crown.
The white chicken crown also has an interesting "identity", it is the only "Dao tea" in Wuyi Mountain, and it has a deep relationship with Taoism.
According to legend, the white chicken crown was cultivated by the white jade toad master who presided over the Song Dynasty and was one of the five ancestors of the Southern Sect, and is said to be a medicinal tea for the auxiliary qi and health maintenance of the Meditation Meditation Of the Zhi'an Daoist Monks.
10. Tuling black tea
Tuling black tea, also known as "South Iron Guanyin", is produced in quangang district of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, around the Great Smoky Mountains.
It has a history of more than 300 years, and is a rare stir-fried dry eyebrow black tea in the existing national black tea category, which belongs to the small branch of black tea in Zhengshan.
Tuling black tea has unique quality characteristics such as high aroma, strong taste, mellowness and foam resistance, which can be tasted for a long time after tasting.
"TuLingHong" black tea has won more than 20 awards in Fujian, national and international famous tea competitions, including representative works such as "Yushi Tulinghong".
Surrounded by mountains and seas, Fujian Province has bred a developed tea industry and a broad and profound tea culture.
In this land full of tea fragrance, there are more tea resources waiting for us to explore.