jasmine tea
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">01.</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jasmine is not fragrant, only because the incense is attached. </h1>
An old legend:
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty in China, it began to make flower tea, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. And jasmine flowers have the elegant name of "fragrant soul". Jasmine flowers are originally fragranceless and tasteless, and there is a historical allusion about how its fragrance comes from. In the Tang Dynasty, a famous singer and prostitute in Suzhou, "True Niang", was born in Chang'an Shuxiang Mendi, and was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. During the Anshi Rebellion, he fled south to Suzhou and was lured to the brothel of "Le Yun Lou" on Shantang Street. There was a rich man who wanted to marry, but because her parents were the masters when she was young, she already had a marriage contract, so she had to politely refuse. The children of the rich family bought off the old bustard and secretly made him obedient. When the true woman saw the situation, she knew that it was difficult to disobey, and in order to protect her virginity, she committed suicide by hanging the beam. When the children of the rich family learned of this, they were full of remorse, buried the real lady in tiger hill, and planted many jasmine trees on the grave, which was called "Flower Mound" in ancient times. After the death of Zhenniang, every flowering season, jasmine flowers spit fragrant flowers all over the garden. The ancients believed that the soul of the true lady was attached to the flower, and the jasmine flower had a fragrance since then. Therefore, jasmine is also known as "fragrant soul", and jasmine tea is also called "fragrant soul tea".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">02.</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > jasmine tea with flowers, or is it better to have no flowers? </h1>
❶ The process of making jasmine tea:
Kilning process: refers to the process of "flowers spitting incense" and "tea embryos absorbing incense".
The scent of jasmine flowers:
After picking, the jasmine flowers, under the action of their internal active enzymes, temperature, moisture, oxygen, and other conditions, decompose and release fragrant substances, resulting in the aroma of jasmine flowers.
Absorption of carrier tea embryos:
As a carrier of jasmine flower aroma, tea embryos have a natural strong adsorption. Tea embryos absorb the aroma at the same time, but also absorb a lot of water, moisture is the carrier of the transmission of floral fragrance, tea embryos can also be with the volatilization of water and loss of fragrance. The ability of tea embryos to absorb incense depends on its own degree of dryness, the size of the surface area, the contact distance with the flower, and other factors.
❷ Jasmine flowers are mainly volatile oil aromatic substances:
Jasmine flowers do not release their fragrance when the buds are not fully formed. As they continue to grow, the petals open slightly, releasing a faint aromatic smell of jasmine. The aroma is strongest when the petals are fully open, and after ten hours the petals wither and lose their aroma. The aroma substances in jasmine flowers are: benzyl acetate, jasmonone, linalool, etc., which are volatile oil aroma substances that cannot stay in the buds for a long time.
❸ Traditional jasmine tea is "good tea without flowers":
Jasmine flowers contain moisture. In order to maintain the dryness of the tea embryo and prevent the tea embryo from absorbing moisture and becoming damp and producing mildew, in the traditional jasmine tea process, there is a "flowering" process. Using a blower, all the flowers in the prepared jasmine tea are screened out. These selected flowers are again used to prepare lower-grade tea embryos, a process called "embossing". Usually in some lower grade jasmine teas, some yellowed dried jasmine flowers can often be seen. Therefore, high-quality jasmine tea, in the end, needs to go through the "flowering" process, so that they are separated from the camellia flowers and "only smell the flowers and do not see the flowers".
❹ The new process of jasmine tea is "good tea also has flowers":
The "Bitan Drifting Snow" jasmine tea from Mount Emei, Sichuan, is deliberately decorated with dried jasmine petals. The jasmine tea brewed in this way is of great ornamental value. Only to see: the soup color bicheng is like a pond, the jasmine is like a little snow, floating in the water, like "bitan drifting snow".
Summary: Is jasmine tea good with flowers or better without flowers?
The answer is as follows: Evaluating the quality of jasmine tea cannot be judged simply by "flowers and flowers". Under normal circumstances, the jasmine tea of the traditional method is "only smelling the fragrance of the flowers and not seeing the flowers"; the jasmine tea of the new method is "and the fragrance of flowers and see the flowers". In the final analysis, it is necessary to: good quality, good taste is the fundamental.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">03.</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the characteristics of jasmine tea in different regions:</h1>
❶ Fuzhou jasmine tea --- traditional preparation method:
Fuzhou is the birthplace of jasmine tea in China, which was served as a tribute to the imperial family as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties. Until now, the funing process of Fuzhou jasmine tea still respects the traditional method.
Representative tea of Fuzhou jasmine tea:
Jasmine Pekoe:
Made from Fujian Fuding's large white tea as raw material, it is made by the process of seven pipes and one mention.
Quality characteristics:
Appearance: The strips of sprouts are fat, heavy and straight, and the color is tender yellow and full of silver millimeters.
Aroma: Fresh and rich.
Taste: rich and fresh, the taste has "rock sugar sweet".
Soup color: clear yellowish.
Leaf base: Uniform.
Jasmine Tongue:
It is made by the process of four-fold and one-to-one. Because of its small shape bud tip resembling a finch tongue, it is called "finch tongue", which is a high-grade product in Fuzhou jasmine tea.
Appearance: the cord is tight and delicate, evenly sharp, the bud tip is small like a finch tongue, and the color is tender green.
Aroma: Fresh and rich.
Soup color: clear yellow green bright.
Taste: Fresh and mellow and long.
Leaf base: The buds are tender and shiny.
Dragon Ball Jasmine Tea:
It is named after the shape of a round bead, and it is made of three pipes and one mention.
Dragon Ball Jasmine Tea Quality Characteristics:
Shape: The cord is tightly knotted bead-shaped, round and tight, heavy and uniform.
Aroma: Fresh and intense.
Soup color: clear yellow and bright.
Taste: Mellow and long, extremely resistant to foaming.
Leaf base: hypertrophic.
The core features of Fuzhou jasmine tea:
The traditional method of "only smelling the flowers and not seeing the flowers"; the quality is fragrant and resistant to bubbles; and the unique taste of "rock sugar is sweet".
❷ Sichuan Emei Mountain jasmine tea --- unique process:
The "Bitan Drifting Snow" jasmine tea from Mount Emei, Sichuan, has an innovative and unique production process, which is "floral fragrance and flowers". After the completion of the kiln, it is also necessary to eliminate the flowers. In order to increase the ornamentation and beauty, it is made by adding high-quality flowers.
Bitan drifting snow quality characteristics:
Appearance: The shape is tight and straight, the tea buds are exposed to be full of silver, and the color is green and yellow.
Aroma: Fresh and fresh and fragrant.
Soup color: clear and clear orange yellow green.
Taste: Fresh and sweet, extremely resistant to bubbles.
Leaf bottom: soft and bright and tender.
The core characteristics of Sichuan Emei mountain jasmine tea:
Innovative production method "there are flowers and flowers"; after brewing, like the snow in Bitan, the flowers float on the surface of the water, which is of great ornamental value and beauty. The quality is fresh and rich, and the taste is fresh and sweet.
❸ Guangxi Hengxian Jasmine Tea --- Representative Tea "Stone Milk Jasmine Tea":
Guangxi Shi milk tea industry Co., Ltd., founded in 1985, is a professional tea company that mainly produces and operates jasmine tea, green tea, black tea, and mainly. The company has an annual output of more than 2,500 tons of jasmine tea, with sales of more than 60 million yuan, ranking first in the same industry in Guangxi. The "Stone Milk" brand jasmine tea produced by it ranks second in the industry in terms of sales, market share, brand awareness, and other comprehensive strength.
Quality characteristics of stone milk jasmine tea:
Appearance: The cords are tightly knotted and evenly, and there are peak seedlings and young stems.
Aroma: Pure and fresh.
Taste: Pure fresh sweet and mellow.
Leaf base: soft bright yellow-green.
The core characteristics of Jasmine Tea in Hengxian County, Guangxi:
The jasmine city of our country. The country's largest jasmine flowers, dried jasmine flowers, jasmine tea, wholesale market is located in Hengxian County, Guangxi; the national jasmine, jasmine tea, the first yield; the quality aroma is fresh and lasting, the soup color is yellow and green, and the leaf bottom is tender and soft.
❹ Zhejiang Jinhua Jasmine Tea --- Jasmine Maofeng:
Jinhua jasmine tea, referred to as "Jinhua flower tea", is produced in Luodian Township, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. Jinhua flower tea varieties are: jasmine Maofeng flower tea, jasmine roasted blue flower tea, jasmine fried blue and white tea, etc., among which "Jasmine Maofeng" has the best quality.
Jasmine MaoFeng quality characteristics:
Appearance: the cords are tightly knotted and evenly, the silver millimeters are full of cloth, the buds and leaves are tightly rolled, and the color is yellow and green.
Aroma: Clear and full-bodied.
Soup color: Qingming golden.
Taste: Fresh and mellow.
The core characteristics of Jinhua jasmine tea in Zhejiang Province:
Jasmine flowers come from Luodian Township, Jinhua City, this province, with the advantages of large round heads, full white and smooth, high aromatic substance content, and so on. The quality soup is clear and golden, the taste is fresh and mellow, and the bottom of the leaves is soft and bright yellow-green.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">04.</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > one final review:</h1>
❶ Spring arrives, it is suitable for drinking flower tea.
❷ Jasmine tea has flowers and no flowers, which is the difference in the production process, and does not indicate the quality of the quality, but depends on the quality, good taste.
❸ The main production areas of jasmine tea in China are: Fuzhou, Fujian, Hengxian, Guangxi, Monkey King, Changsha, Hunan, Yuanjiang, Yunnan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, Jinhua, Zhejiang, Emei, Sichuan, etc.
❹ Jasmine tea has its own characteristics and advantages.
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