Longjing is a well-known and most prestigious tea in China, Zhejiang Hangzhou has a long history of tea production, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" recorded: "Qiantang (tea) born Tianzhu, Lingyin Second Temple." "The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is more fond of Longjing tea, six times under the Jiangnan has come to the West Lake Longjing Tea District four times, Shifeng Mountain Hugong Temple in front of the eighteen tea trees are also listed as "royal tea", West Lake Longjing is known for its green, fragrant, mellow, shape and beauty, but in fact, many people drink not the real West Lake Longjing, but Longjing tea.
The two are completely different, the modern Longjing tea is actually a kind of process, is to pick the standard of tea varieties fresh leaves within the scope of geographical indication protection, and then use the process of flat frying to make a shape of green tea is flat.
The West Lake Longjing has a specific geographical indication of "West Lake", which refers to the Longjing tea produced in the West Lake District of Hangzhou City, and there are five core first-class production areas here, namely lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum, that is, Shifeng Mountain, Longjing Village, Yunqi, Tiger Run, and Meijiawu.
Among them, the Longjing of Shifeng Mountain is headed, other production areas in the West Lake area belong to the secondary production area, represented by Longwu, the authentic West Lake Longjing production is relatively small, the price will be relatively high, such as Hangzhou's Fuyang, Xiaoshan These places can not be called West Lake Longjing, can only be called Qiantang Longjing, the output is relatively large, and then down is the Longjing tea produced in Zhejiang Province, it belongs to Yuezhou Longjing, this part of the output is the largest, and even a lot of Sichuan, Guizhou and other regions of the tea mixed into Zhejiang When Longjing came to sell.
The varieties of West Lake Longjing are now common on the market is the group species and Longjing No. 43 group species is the earliest tree species in West Lake Longjing, sexually reproduced, only planted in the core production area of West Lake, also known as old tea peng, old Longjing, generally a bush, and the group species picking time is relatively late, but it is the favorite of old tea customers.
![Hangzhou's most core Shifeng Longjing tea production area: Old Longjing[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)