As the only taxon with yellow flowers among camellias, Golden Flower Tea is known as the "Queen of the Tea Clan". Limited by geographical conditions, its distribution is extremely narrow and extremely rare, and it is on a par with precious "living plant fossils" such as silver fir, quercus, and tung tree.
Jinhua tea has always been a unique resource of Fangcheng and has been cultivated for hundreds of years. Because the tea boiled from its leaves can cure the disease that cattle and livestock can't pull out urine, Fangcheng folk have been calling golden flower tea cattle urine tea for hundreds of years. Every Spring Festival, people like to go to the mountains to pick golden flower tea to decorate their homes, symbolizing Ruixiang auspicious celebration. In early spring, families go to the mountains to pick golden flower tea buds and fry them into fragrant green tea for hospitality.
Fangcheng Golden Flower Tea Golden Petal Jade Rui, crystal clear, not only has a high ornamental value, but also a very high economic value. It contains a variety of beneficial ingredients needed by the human body, flowers, leaves can be medicated, for regulating human blood lipids, blood sugar, cholesterol, enhance the body's immunity has a significant effect, folk have been used to refresh the brain, clear liver fire, detoxify, nourish the vitality.
Due to the unique geographical environment conditions, Fangcheng District of Fangchenggang City has the largest Golden Flower Tea Protection Base and the largest Jinhua Tea Ownership in China, with 28 varieties, accounting for 70% of the world's known Golden Flower Tea varieties, and Fangcheng District has also been named "The Hometown of China's Golden Flower Tea" by the China Economic Forestry Association.
At present, the main products of Fangcheng Jinhua Tea are flower tea made of Jinhua tea flowers as raw materials, green tea, cake tea, tea bags, bud tea, pressed tea and other products made of Jinhua tea leaves (young leaves, young stems) as raw materials.
In 2011, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the implementation of geographical indication product protection for "Fangcheng Jinhua Tea". (Chen Jing)
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