Lushan Yunwu Tea, known as "Wenlin Tea" in ancient times, is one of the famous traditional teas in China, produced in Lushan. Because Lushan Mountain is cloudy, it is named "Cloud Tea".
Lushan is located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, surrounded by clouds, babbling springs, an average of more than 180 days of fog per year, this cloud landscape, not only cast a mysterious veil on Lushan, but also provides good conditions for the growth of tea plants.
Legend has it that when Sun Wukong was the Monkey King in HuaguoShan, one day he suddenly remembered to taste the immortal tea that the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother had drunk, so one of them went up to the sky and saw a turquoise green in the southern country of Jiuzhou, and when he looked closely, it was a tea tree. A group of amorous birds flew from the sky, and when he saw the monkey queen, he asked him what he wanted to do, and Sun Wukong said, "Although my flower and fruit mountain is good, I don't have a tea tree, and I want to pick some tea seeds, but I don't know how to pick it." ”
The birds listened and said, "Let's help you harvest the seeds." The amorous bird holds the tea seed in its mouth, passes through the clouds, crosses the mountain, crosses the river, and flies forward. They were deeply attracted by the majestic scenery of Lushan Mountain, and the leading bird couldn't help but sing. The tea seeds fell from their mouths. Since then, the mist-shrouded Lushan Mountain has grown one tea tree after another, producing fragrant cloud tea.
Lushan Cloud Mist Tea has a long history, and is named after Lushan Mountain, and is more famous in the world according to Lushan Mountain. Successive generations of literati have left many beautiful poems praising Lushan Cloud Tea. As far back as the Han Dynasty, tea trees have been planted here. According to the "Lushan Chronicle", during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to China, when there were more than 300 monasteries in Lushan, and monks gathered.
They climb dangerous cliffs, fly springs, and compete for wild tea; in the depths of the white clouds, they split cliffs and fill in the mountains, plant tea trees, and collect tea leaves. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lushan had become one of the centers of Buddhism, and it is reported that the famous monk HuiYuan lived on the mountain for more than thirty years, gathering monks, teaching Buddhism, and developing tea cultivation in the mountains.
During the Tang Dynasty, Lushan tea was already very famous. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once dug up medicinal tea at the peak of Lushan Mountain and wrote a poem: "The head of the creek under the long pine tree, the white cloth of the spotted deer fetus, the medicinal garden tea garden is the industry, and the wild elk forest stork is a social tour."
Due to weather conditions, cloud tea is picked later than other teas, and is generally picked between the valley rain and the summer.
The picking period is in late April or early May, and it is required to pick only one bud and one leaf of the first exhibition, the length does not exceed three centimeters, and special grade tea is made. After harvesting, the purple buds and pests and leaves are first removed, and then spread in a cool and ventilated place, let them sit for four to five hours, and then stir-fry.
Lushan cloud tea leaves grow long, contain high beneficial ingredients, the content of thea theophylline, vitamin C are higher than the general tea. Its buds are strong and fat, the pekoe is revealed, the color is green and clear, the taste is thick, and the fragrance is like an orchid.
The processing and production of Lushan Yunwu tea is very fine, handmade, the initial production is divided into green, shaking, kneading, stir-frying, striping, rubbing, picking, picking, baking and drying and other processes, refining desmittering, grading, even stacking and packing and other processes.
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Brewing method
First, the ratio of tea to water is roughly mastered at 1:50.
Second, generally 85 degrees is appropriate, so that the brewed tea soup, in order to soup bright, mellow and sweet.
Third, in the case of an appropriate amount of tea leaves, the number of brewing should not exceed three times, and the first soluble substance leaching is about 50%; the second leaching is about 30%; three times, the leaching is about 10%.
Fourth, because the shape of Lushan Cloud Mist Tea is "strong and strong", it is better to use the "upper throwing method" when brewing. That is, first flush 85 degrees of boiling water into the cup, and then take the tea and put it in.
Good mountains and good water to raise good tea, friends who like healthy and good tea, may wish to taste tea in such a wonderland to enjoy the scenery, self-cultivation, relaxation of the state of mind.