● Historical origin and development
Jingting green snow is produced in North Jingting Mountain, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. Jingting Mountain has a long history of tea production, as early as the 2nd century AD there are records of tea picking, 3rd century AD there is tribute tea production. "Tea Name Dacheng" records: "Jingting green snow produces Jingting Mountain in Anhui. Tea is delicate and tender, pekoe is on it, it is not easy to get more..." "Xuancheng County Chronicle" said: "Songluo tea is everywhere, the taste is bitter and thin, but it is widely used." Wei Jing Pavilion green snow is the highest quality. ”
"Jingting Green Snow" has long been famous. The "Xuancheng County Chronicle" records that : "Between the Ming and Qing dynasties, 300 pounds of tribute were paid every year. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the Xuancheng poet Shi Runzhang wrote a poem praising after drinking the green snow of the Pavilion: "Rich as flower milk, cham as clear as cloud liquid... The branches are picked by hand, and they are really not expensive. The Qing Dynasty poet Shi Yanzhang has the praise of "not distinguishing between the plain porcelain and the suspicious flowers and springs". The Qing Dynasty painter Mei Geng praised the praise: "Holding the green snow than the spirit bud, the hand-made also from the guests to praise, more Jingting tea Desong, color Chengqiu water flavor orchid." ”
The name of "Jingting Green Snow" is accompanied by many beautiful legends. Among them, there is a legend that green snow is the essence of the thousand-year-old tea tree on Jingting Mountain, and later was named a mountain god by Empress Wu Zetian, with her own mana, to protect the wind and rain in a radius of thirty miles of Jingting Mountain, and the tea produced on Jingting Mountain was named "Jingting Green Snow". Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, during his visit to Jingting Mountain, the mountain god Lu Xue once appeared to meet him, and Li Bai came to Jingting Mountain many times to compose many poems.
Of course, this is just a legend, but Li Bai and Xuanzhou Jingting Mountain do have an indissoluble relationship, he has climbed this mountain many times, and written several Yongshan poems, of which "Sitting Alone on Jingting Mountain": "The birds fly high, the lonely clouds go alone, and they don't get tired of looking at each other, only Jingting Mountain." "Popular among the population, the artistic conception is far away, and it has been passed down through the ages."
Jingting green snow was lost at about the end of the Qing Dynasty, in 1972, Anhui Province Jingting Mountain Tea Farm resumed development, in 1978, Jingting Green Snow Tea was successfully developed, and later won the title of famous tea many times. Jingting Green Snow is now together with Huangshan Maofeng and Liu'an Gua Tablets as the three famous teas of Anhui Province. Guo Moruo once personally inscribed the four words of "Jingting Green Snow" and gave it to Jingting Mountain Tea Farm.
●Quality characteristics
Jingting green snow shaped like a finch tongue, straight and full, the tea leaves are fat, the whole body is white, and the color is emerald green. After brewing, the tea leaves in the tea cup sink vertically, and the pekoe draped in the tea leaves slowly drifts down, like snowflakes flying in the green shade. The soup is clear and bright, the aroma is fresh, the aftertaste is sweet, and the aroma is not reduced when brewed two or three times in a row. Depending on the small environment, dried tea has a chestnut, orchid or honeysuckle fragrance.
Jingting green snow every year between Qingming to the valley rain open garden picking, specially mined "a Jingting green snow every year between the Qingming to the valley rain garden picking, specially mined "one leaf holding a core", that is, a delicate bud and a leaf that has not yet been unfolded, or a bud and two leaves are first unfolded, 1 inch long, this tea is refined by multiple processes such as greening, shaping, lifting, drying and so on.