丨This article was originally written by Xiao Chen Chashi
丨First published in the headlines: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Tomorrow will be the beginning of spring.
About a month before the Spring Festival, it is the time to raise daffodils every year.
In the era of online shopping, spend a little effort to find good reviews, even pots with balls, and place orders together.
Before the express delivery was suspended, I received it as I wished.
Bought bulbs, peeled off, washed, filled with water, and left in a sunny or heated place.
Then, you'll see it every day.
It can withstand all loneliness and loneliness, it is the warm waiting of the long winter, and it is also the hope of the beginning of spring.
When I was a child, during the Spring Festival, my grandfather's narcissus would always bloom when he heard the news.
Elegant and lush, very suitable for the occasion.
Sitting next to me reading, drinking tea and writing, inadvertently, there is a faint fragrance through the space.
I used to think that the first day of the first lunar month was the beginning of the new year.
Since I started making tea, the rhythm of life has been centered on tea and demarcated by solar terms.
I suddenly found that the beginning of spring is the beginning of the year, representing the recovery of all things.
After the beginning of spring, it is the Spring Festival, and after that, it is necessary to go up the mountain to pick tea.
A new round of spring tea season is about to kick off......
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There are still many unsolved mysteries about the spring tea season and Fuding white tea.
Familiar with our old tea customers, they will participate in the spring tea reservation on time.
But the new tea friends who are not familiar with it are mainly wait-and-see.
But if you miss the opportunity and miss the most suitable price, you will regret it.
Compared with 2023, the price of white tea in 2024 will still rise to a certain extent.
As for the increase, it depends on the output, the wages of the workers, and the difficulty of picking.
In addition, due to the impact of the economic environment, inflation and currency depreciation, such international reasons, will also cause the price of white tea to fluctuate.
Specifically, it will be known after mining in March.
Of course, before that, it's important to know some expertise in advance.
Come to think of it, when it comes to purchasing, you must be able to get twice the result with half the effort and prevent yourself from stepping on the pit.
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Question 1: What is the mining time of Fuding white tea?
In terms of solar terms, most of the time, it is the stage after the sting and before the spring equinox.
And from the calendar, it is generally the middle to early part of March.
According to the previous years, the mining time of Fuding alpine white tea is March 14 in 2023, March 14 in 2022, March 8 in 2021, and March 15 in 2020......
Basically, there won't be much change.
However, the more accurate time should be based on the weather conditions of the year.
After all, planting, picking, making, and selling tea are all based on the sky.
Whether there can be a good harvest or not, everything depends on the will of God.
In addition, if it is a white tea from a flat land, or a white tea from other places, the picking time will be earlier.
The main reason is that the high altitude and low temperature of the alpine tea plantation make the growth and development of tea plants slower, but the content is richer.
Therefore, when you see the news of Fuding white tea mining on the Internet or in the circle of friends, don't be in a hurry to be happy.
Under normal circumstances, high mountain tea is long overdue.
Those tea trees that have been sleeping for a winter have finally ushered in spring, beginning to sprout and grow leaves, and continue to output their abundant energy.
As a result, you will see that in the high mountain tea plantation, the tender tips of the tea trees are hung with full buds.
The green buds and leaves, silvery-white white, one green and two white, verdant and dripping.
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Question 2: Are Baihao Silver Needle, White Peony and Shou Mei picked at the same time?
No.
To put it simply, they are young shoots that grow on the same tea tree at different times.
As mentioned earlier, at a suitable time, the tea plant will start a new round of development.
Sprouts like little tiger teeth, round, fat, bulging, full of vitality.
These sturdy, mainly bud heads, are picked and are white silver needles.
The white silver needle of the high mountain, the middle of the bud head is solid, presenting a bamboo shoot shell-like structure.
Layer after layer, gradually thickening.
If you peel it by hand, you can see 5-7 layers, and on each layer, there is a white hair.
This is why, Baihao Silver Needle can become the "king" and is the category that can best represent white tea in everyone's hearts.
However, the good times are always fleeting.
After 7-10 days, the harvest of the silver needles is over.
Next, the weather is getting hotter, and these buds slowly draw strips, and the originally chubby buds grow delicate leaves on both sides of the body.
At that time, according to the standard of one bud, one or two leaves, what was picked was white peony.
The floral fragrance of white peony is elegant, and it has the charm of milli fragrance and honey, which is the favorite of many tea customers, fragrant, fresh and clear.
Time continues to go by, and after ten days and half a month of picking white peonies, the development of tea trees is significantly faster.
You must know that in the spring and spring tea season, every few days, the light, temperature, and sunshine intensity will change significantly.
The delicate leaves, day by day, become round and wide.
About after the Qingming Festival and before the Guyu Festival, the white peony completed its task and handed it over to Shoumei.
So, picking a bud three or four leaves of Shou Mei appeared.
The tea stems are more pronounced, the leaves are wider and rounder, and the bud heads are thinner, which gives it a rich herbal aroma and sweet floral aroma.
Therefore, it can be understood as siblings of the same father and mother.
They bear different aromas, different tastes, different prices, and different audiences.
Together, the whole white tea rivers and lakes.
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Question 3: Why is spring tea generally more expensive?
First of all, in the early spring, the cold wind is bitter, and the growth and development of tea trees is slow.
In addition, the appropriate low temperature and abundant water vapor can allow the tea tree to accumulate more substances and sprout nutrient-rich shoots.
However, it is the essence that is concentrated.
Output determines value, scarce is expensive, the smaller the quantity, the higher the price.
In particular, Baihao silver needles are only harvested once a year, and the output is too limited in just a few days.
Secondly, spring tea has a high nutritional value.
In spring white tea, it is rich in theanine, chlorophyll, tea polyphenols, protein, and so on.
As we all know, many people drink tea because they want to enjoy the health benefits and nourish the body.
When a tea is rich in theanine, it is very beneficial to the human body.
Finally, the taste of spring tea is fresh.
The substances that affect the taste of tea soup are mainly theanine, tea polyphenols and caffeine.
When the content of these three substances is reasonable and relatively balanced, the best taste will be presented.
In addition, theanine is sufficient, which can provide a fresh and pure taste for tea soup.
It has become a weight to bless the fragrance and richness, and the refreshing and refreshing tea flavor is even better.
This rare aroma and taste is unmatched by other seasons.
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After the beginning of spring, my heart began to be nervous, counting the days.
The annual spring tea season is always in the spotlight.
No matter what circle they are in, old tea customers are looking forward to it.
In particular, since the lockdown has been lifted, everyone has more opportunities to go to the tea mountain to take a walk in person, take a look, and visit tea picking.
Being there is more touching.
The power of words is limited.
If you can go on a tour of the mountains, you will know that what the village aunt Chen said is true.
The high mountains and clouds produce good tea, and the good mountains and good water have good tea.
I and Qingshan are all here.
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, column writer, the original new media in the tea industry "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.