Emperor Zongdang was incompetent, but he was a perfect artist. Self-created thin gold body, blowing calligraphy and painting lyrics are exquisite. Qingming Riverside Picture, the five characters of Qingming Riverside Picture on this painting are inscribed by Song Huizong with thin gold body.
Zhao Ji of Song Huizong is a tea maniac, and his work (Daguan Tea Treatise) does have a paragraph of white tea (white tea, which is a kind of its own, different from ordinary tea. Its strips are pervasive, its leaves are thin, and between the forest cliffs, it is born by chance, although it is not caused by manpower. There are only four or five families, and the living ones are only one or two, and the creation is only two or three crotches. There are not many buds, especially difficult to steam, and the soup has become a regular product if it is lost. It must be made subtlely, and the luck is appropriate, then the surface is as clear as jade, and it is incomparable. There are also shallow bakes, but the quality is not as good as ...... White tea first. ）
Song Huizong Zhao Ji said, "White tea is a kind of its own, which is different from regular tea." "Where are you talking about tea?
Song Huizong Zhao Ji's "Daguan Tea Treatise" wrote: "White tea, its own kind of tea, is different from ordinary tea. Its strips are pervasive, its leaves are thin, and between the forest cliffs, it is born by chance, although it is not caused by manpower. After that, you can see praise words such as "incomparable" and "white tea first", which is enough to see Song Huizong's liking for white tea.
The name of white tea first appeared in the "Book of Tea: Seven Things" by the tea saint Lu Yu. Lu Yu quoted the now lost local chronicle "Yongjia Tujing" as saying: "There is a white tea mountain three hundred miles east of Yongjia. 」
Yongjia is now Yongjia County in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and three hundred miles east has reached the sea. According to the research of the late Professor Chen Rafter, a tea master, the east 300 miles is the mistake of the south 300 miles. Three hundred miles south of Yongjia County, it happens to be today's Fuding, Fujian, and Baicha Mountain is likely to be the Taimu Mountain of Fuding.
Fuding people in 1885 made a white silver needle, Zhenghe is not far behind, in 1889 also made a silver needle, in the 60s of the 20th century, Fuding developed a "new white tea", the new white tea ancient white tea seems to be more praised.
Fuding white tea identification
White tea is not fried or kneaded, and it is sun-dried tea. The overall characteristic is "azure ground white": the color is gray-green, and the back of the leaf is white and fluffy. As it ages, the brown gray-green color turns dark, and the millicolor turns silver-gray. After 3-5 years of aging, there will be a faint floral tea aroma. White tea can be divided into loose tea and cake tea with the form, and can be divided into three products: Baihao silver needle, white peony and Shou Mei according to the selection of materials, among which the high-quality Shou Mei is also known as Gong Mei.
White tea tasting
From the perspective of raw materials, only the buds of the white silver needle is the "fist product" of Fuding white tea. The silver needle cord is strong and tightly knotted, and the white hair is full of cloth; White peony chooses one bud and two leaves or one bud and three leaves; The material selection standard of Gongmei is lower than that of peony and higher than that of Shoumei. Shou Mei only uses fresh leaves after the needle, and generally waits until late April after the buds and leaves are thick and old to start making, and the tea form is more coarse. In terms of white silver needles, the heart is fat, bright, silver and shiny, and the thin gray is secondary; The white peony is fat and tender and stretched, and the milli-colored silver white is the top, and the thin gray is the second; The blame for the eyebrows is to the leaves are fat and tender, with no buds for the high quality.
It is generally believed that Baihao silver needle and white peony belong to high-grade white tea. However, a well-made, well-preserved, and well-fermented Shou Dun is likely to taste as good as or even better than Silver Needle. Another indicator is the age of tea, i.e. the aging time. It is generally believed that white tea should be aged, the longer the more expensive, five or six years of white tea can be called "old white tea" when tasting tea soup, pay attention to "milli fragrance honey rhyme": milli fragrance is full of appearance, honey fragrance is rich. Compared with Zhenghe white tea, Fuding white tea is sweet and soft in the mouth, and the soup is glutinous and smooth, no matter whether it is new tea or old tea, there is a sweet aftertaste. The new tea is fresher, and the old tea is stronger.
The process flow of white tea
Picking fresh leaves, sifting, withering, and drying are the most special points in the production process of white tea, and the withered white tea production process.
In the 60s of the 20th century, Fuding developed the "new white tea", and the production process of the new white tea is mainly to add light kneading in the traditional process to make the tea easier to taste. The rich and sweet tea soup can even reach the orange red of black tea.
New white tea is marketed overseas, and it seems to be more popular than ancient white tea. However, many locals still have reservations about the new white tea. What they prefer is the light tea soup of traditional craft white tea: after eight or ten bubbles, the fragrance still reverberates on the tip of the tongue.