In April, Changzhou began a busy "tea life"!
Liyang, Jintan tea garden Qingqing,
Tea farmers pick tea, tea merchants sell tea, tea friends taste tea,
Tea, for the people of Changzhou,
Has long gone beyond the concept of "drink",
It is a custom, a culture, an attitude towards life.
One side of the water and soil to raise one person, one side of the landscape to raise one side of the tea. Located in the subtropical Changzhou, with abundant rainfall, fertile soil and abundant products, it is a typical land of fish and rice, and it is also an ideal place to plant tea, the hilly area of Liyang and Jintan, which is famous for producing tea.
Changzhou people love to drink tea, and the Changzhou area is also famous for Liyang white tea, Golden Altar Tongue, Maoshan Qingfeng and so on.
Among the green teas, the spring tea produced before the Qingming and Guyu is of the highest quality, the young buds are just beginning, and the amino acids in the tea leaves are particularly rich, which is the most important substance that produces "fresh sweetness". Moreover, the pectin content in spring tea is also high, which makes the tea soup more mellow and smooth.
Today's small tour will take you to Changzhou in April, enjoy the beautiful tea garden, taste the characteristic spring tea...
The day before yesterday, Jiangsu Liyang Thousand Mu Tea Garden, let people in this early spring, saw the changzhou Liyang Lingfeng tea garden different beauty.
In the early spring of Lingfeng Tea Garden, the colorful flowers and trees in the mountains are dotted in a "green sea", forming a beautiful spring picture, which is beautiful. Compared with the mountain forest bamboo forest, a pair of tea leaves, like green silk silk layered on top of each other.
Covered on the hilly mountain bag, there is a little more beauty of carving, which is a spiritual show created by man and nature.
Looking at the delicate flowers of the trees and trees, it is happy to spoil the spring breeze, soaked in a sweet fragrance, dashing and swirling, attracting countless bees and butterflies. The tea buds also seemed to be quiet in a gust of incense, and they forgot for a while, taking advantage of the spring breeze and standing up hard.
The tea scenery is beautiful, the tea is also fresh, and these spring teas in Changzhou cannot be missed.
Liyang white tea
Liyang white tea is a kind of green tea, which is an uncreated tea. A thriving tea tree can actually only pick a delicate branch and two leaves on the tip of the branch. It can only be picked once a year, and the picking period is only a short golden period of more than 20 days before and after the Qingming Dynasty, which is a good interpretation of "tea is rare and expensive".
White tea picking should be done: early picking, tender picking, diligent picking, net picking, the harvested buds and leaves into flowers, the size is uniform, and the handle should be short. Gently picked and placed, packed in bamboo baskets, stored and transported in bamboo baskets.
Characteristics of Liyang white tea
Tea-shaped
Liyang white tea has verdant veins and white leaf buds; the strips are evenly arranged, and the body is covered in gold; and it is shaped like a phoenix feather.
Tea aroma
Liyang white tea is not as fragrant as Tieguanyin, and it is not as vicissitudes as black tea, and the light fragrance of the infiltration is penetrated into the bones, without the slightest turbidity.
Tea
The tea soup is like jade liquid, clear and bright, the taste is fresh and mellow, the leaves are white and the stem veins are emerald green.
Leaf bottom
The dry tea leaves left behind after brewing and decoction are tender and green and fat, thick and full, evenly flowered, and bright throughout.
Golden Tongue
Jintan Que tongue tea production area Xuebu Town, Zhiqian Town, Zhulin Town and Zhixi Town. Here there are the superior natural ecological conditions required for tea growth: sufficient light, abundant heat, abundant rainfall, four distinct seasons, especially in the contiguous low hilly area, with dense ditches and ponds, sufficient water resources, is a heavenly tea "paradise".
Jintan Finch Tongue Tea is named after its shape like a finch tongue, which is a flat-shaped fried green tea. The finished product is evenly organized, shaped like a finch tongue, dried tea color is green, flat and beautiful; after brewing, the aroma is clear, the soup color is bright, the taste is fresh, and the bottom of the leaf is tender and bright.
In the stir-frying process, Jintan Que Tongue Tea is divided into processes such as greening, cooling, shaping, and drying. Each process has strict standard requirements, such as in the drying process, the temperature of the stir-frying tea pot is mastered at about 70 ° C, the temperature is first low and then high, and the tea strips are flat and smooth by grasping, rubbing, grinding, pushing and other gestures, reaching the quality requirements of Jintan Que tongue tea.
With its exquisite shape, turquoise color, and refreshing tea aroma, Jintan Finch Tongue has repeatedly won awards and praise.
Maoshan Qingfeng
In addition to the que tongue tea, there is also a good quality tea in Jintan: Maoshan Qingfeng. Maoshan Qingfeng began production in the 1940s, then called the "flag gun", and was given its current name in 1983. Maoshan Qingfeng is more cost-effective, and local citizens buy a lot of self-drink.
Maolu banner gun tea stir-frying technology is the intangible cultural heritage of Changzhou City, its hand-stir-frying through the combination of stirring, shaking, taking, pinching, grasping, flinging, buckling, pushing, grinding and other techniques, mastering the fire, flexible application, watching tea stir-frying tea, exquisite stir-frying.
The new tea just picked down should not be stored for a long time, and every year it is best to have more than 20 days of tea before and after the rain in the Qingming Valley, taking advantage of the good timing of the Qingming picking, picking tea during the day and roasting tea at night, and everyone races against the clock to make dry tea. Qingfeng dry tea color is dark green, pekoe is obvious, the length is about 1.5-2cm, and the aroma is natural and pure.
Grab a handful of freshly fried new tea to brew a cup, when brewing, the roots of the buds stand vertically, and the leaves will naturally stretch after the tea leaves fully absorb the water, the buds will be exposed, and the soup color will be light yellow and turquoise, and the aroma will be rich. Savor it, the fragrance will enter the heart, and it will be sweet for a long time.
Beautiful scenery with tea, this is the "plain" happy spring day of Changzhou people.
Next, I want to teach you some tea drinking tips, these tea drinking "Tao", you must know!
New tea should not be drunk immediately
Freshly fried spring tea is best not to drink immediately, new tea can be put on for one or two weeks, the taste will be better. After proper storage, not only can the "fire" taste be removed, but also the moisture content of dry tea can be reduced.
Do not use boiling water to brew spring tea
Because spring tea is relatively tender, it is generally appropriate to be about 80 degrees. The more tender and green the tea leaves, the lower the brewing water temperature, so that the brewed tea soup can be tender and bright, the taste is fresh, and the nutrients in the tea leaves are less damaged.
Identification method of new tea and old tea
Once pinched, the old tea is generally not kneaded into a powder, and the new tea is crushed as soon as it is pinched. This is because the new tea has just been made and the brittleness is relatively high, while the old tea will inevitably absorb some moisture after a long period of time, resulting in a resurgence.
Two look at the color, the old tea is green, and the new tea is tender yellow.
Three by smell, the new tea and the old tea absolutely know when they smell, the new tea has a fire fragrance, and the old tea absolutely does not.
Four by drinking, the new tea entrance is fragrant and mellow, there is a sweet back, the old tea taste is thin, can not withstand brewing.
The tea is fragrant and pleasant
April, smelling tea,
Take a relaxing tea-flavored trip!