Kuding tea is a tree with oval leaves that has become rare in the mountains and villages, tall, and the leaves are fat and tuk-like magnolia.
According to the legend in the township, this tree was originally not known to people, and it was handed down by several men who cut down and burned charcoal in the deep mountains. And they were learned through the guidance of the old immortal Iron Abduction Li. It is said that the Hanzi lived in the mountains all year round, through the wind and rain, it was inevitable that he would be infected with diseases, one day, the immortal iron abduction Li pointed with a staff, but there was an oily tree under the cliff, shining. Therefore, charcoal burners often pick leaves to boil water for tea to drink, although slightly bitter but have a miraculous effect, since then, the folk have the habit of using tea to prevent diseases and cure diseases.
This is a kind of fabrication of the townspeople, there is no root, but Kuding tea has medicinal value, and it is recorded in the ancient books "Tea Classic" and "Compendium of Materia Medica": it is said that tea is "bitter and sweet into the yin, nourishing and prolonging" and "bitter tea is long-lasting, can be beneficial". Kuding tea, scattered in the barren mountains and wild mountains, accompanied by clouds and mist all year round, the leaves are fragrant and pleasant, and the taste is bitter and sweet.
I once heard a friend say a real thing, that is, in a mountain village in southern Zhejiang, there is a hole behind the village, the cave is dedicated to bodhisattvas, the villagers every time they encounter a family with a small illness, they go to the cave to burn incense and burn paper to kneel, pray for the protection of the gods, after worship, they will pick a few leaves on a tree that grows obliquely on the edge of the cave and grow in the crevice of the rock, and go home to cook and cook medicine, which always works. As a result, the villagers regarded the bodhisattva in the cave as a god, and they became more and more revered and worshipped. After so many years, it was finally recognized by a wise man, and it turned out that the bodhisattva's spiritual experience was all in the tree by the cave, and this tree was Kuding tea.
Kuding tea grows in the mountains, the original mostly used by poor mountain people, today, some economically minded people into the mountains, launch mountain people to pick, carefully made into natural health drinks, it is said that in addition to containing microbiotics, amino acids, but also contains fragrant resin alcohol, ursolic acid and other play, a variety of diseases have a preventive effect.
In recent years, urban people have increasingly advocated returning to nature, so this kuding tea has moved from the mountains to the city. Unexpectedly, the miscellaneous trees that were originally wild in the mountains are now a good product. In fact, it is not surprising that valuable things in the world will not be buried forever.