Yo-Yo Trail: Black Tea
Black tea is one of the basic teas in China, which belongs to post-fermentation tea and is a unique tea in China. Black tea production has a long history, mainly using more mature fresh leaf raw materials, its processing process mainly includes killing, kneading, Wodui, drying, etc., of which Wodui is the key process to form the quality of black tea. At present, black tea production areas are mainly distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places. The main varieties are Heimao tea from Hunan, laoqing tea from Hubei, Pu'er tea from Yunnan and Liupao tea from Guangxi.
The aroma is rich and long-lasting, and the taste is mellow and refreshing - Yunnan Qizi Cake Tea
Qizi cake tea, also known as round tea, is a tightly pressed tea, with a beautiful appearance, which is round cake shaped, resembling a full moon. Each seven-cake tea is a package, so it is called seven-son cake tea. Its shape: tight knot, cake-shaped, brown color: Wurun; tea aroma: pure and rich; tea taste: mellow and sweet; the most suitable tea set: cover bowl; brewing method: water temperature of about 90C, brewing time of about 1 minute; the best place of origin: Dali City, Yunnan Province.
The tea in Yunnan Qizi Cake Tea is made of Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green tea as raw material, artificially kneaded and steamed with natural spring water. The tea is sprinkled with golden tea, and the green strong tea is the inner tea, and then moderately fermented. The resulting cake tea cake type is tightly knotted, the thickness is moderately uniform, and the color is moist and obvious. After brewing, the soup is bright orange and yellow, the aroma is pure and rich, and the taste is mellow and sweet after entrance.
After drinking, it has the effect of clearing the mind and refreshing the mind, and at the same time, it can also supplement various vitamins and minerals needed by the human body, which can reduce blood and fat loss.
Reference price: the more aged the more fragrant. China Tea Series Yunnan Seven Sons Cake Chinese Tea Discus Raw Tea 280/400g/Cake.
Yunnan Qizi Cake Tea Origin
After 1968, China Tea Brand Round Tea was renamed Yunnan Qizi Cake Tea as the beginning, and ended with the conversion of major state-owned tea factories in Yunnan at the beginning of this century.
Seven is an auspicious number in China, symbolizing many children, many places, many blessings, many lives, many jubilee, many Lu, many fortunes, seven sons together, reunion. In fact, the regulation of Qizi round tea began in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a record in the "Great Qing Hui CanonIcal Case" that "Yongzheng thirteen years (1735 AD) was accurate, and Yunnan merchants sold tea, which was a barrel for every seven circles and weighed forty-nine two".
(Weight theory: The ancient law restricts seven two about 357 grams in modern times, because a cake of tea is 357 grams, a tube of seven cakes; 357 grams * 7 cake tea = 2499 grams, about 2.5 kg.) One piece of 12 barrels is about 30 kg. A horse riding 2 pieces of about 60 kg, no more, no less, just enough. At that time, the regulation of seven-son tea was stipulated, but there was no specific name for "seven-son cake". On the contrary, the title of round tea has been retained.
Entering the new China, the newly established China Tea Company took over the Yunnan China Tea Company, and tea began to be state-run. The tea factories affiliated to the Yunnan Tea Company began to use the "Eight Middle" trademark of china tea company to produce "china tea brand" round tea. The first authorization period of the China Tea brand trademark was from 1952 to 1972.
In the early 1970s, the Yunnan Tea Import and Export Company hoped to find a more appealing, more conducive to publicity and promotion of the name, so they changed the "circle" to "cake", this period of tea cake packaging is no longer printed with the "China Tea Company" name, changed to the tea factory self-production, collectively known as "Yunnan Seven Zi Cake" This name.
The emergence of the Qizi cake period is mainly due to the gradual increase in demand for Pu'er tea in overseas markets, and the system gradually formed by import and export companies in order to unify norms. For export needs, but also to make the tea produced by various manufacturers have a unified identification mark, in 1976, China Native Livestock Yunnan Tea Import and Export Company numbered Pu'er tea and standardized the use of marks.
(The first two digits of the mark number represent the year in which the mark was produced, the third digit represents the system level of the tea raw materials, the fourth digit is the code of the tea factory, "1" is the Kunming Tea Factory, "2" is the Menghai Tea Factory, "3" is the Xiaguan Tea Factory, and the "4" Pu'er Tea Factory is the Pu'er Tea Factory.) ）
The focus of black tea tasting
Black tea has a unique charm, rough taste, very special, especially the Pu'er tea in black tea has a moist color and a unique aroma, known as "beauty tea". Black tea tasting is different from green tea, yellow tea, white tea, etc., it has a variety of drinking methods, such as can be cleared, in order to taste the authenticity of black tea and find the flaws of tea varieties.
Milk or cheese can also be added for concoction, which can not only maintain the original taste of the tea, but also have a nutritional and health effect. In addition, it can also be used as a medicinal drink to achieve the purpose of curing diseases.
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