At the beginning of spring every year, with the arrival of the Qingming Festival, the topic of new tea has been set off again and again. On the phone between the literati, after talking about the right thing, they will say: When to drink tea, I have a new tea here this year, just sent from the place of origin, incense. Some will also report the names of tea: Jinshan Shiyu, Xinyang Maojian, Huangshan Maofeng, Shifeng Longjing, Zheng'an White Tea... Ho ho, the seductive tea name is more attractive than the other, and I want to taste it after hearing it. Some of these teas are very famous, are classic brands, such as Longjing, Duyun Maojian, Biluochun; some are new brands launched since the reform and opening up, which have the tendency to catch up later; and some are not famous at all, but they are also respiring and pleasant to drink. They are all competing in shanghai's tea market.
This part of Shanghai does not produce tea.
However, it does not produce tea, and the tea market is particularly active. The Shanghai Tea Culture Festival, held more than 20 years ago, attracted almost all the famous tea producing areas in China to participate in the exhibition. The Fujian Tieguanyin "Tea Fighting Competition" held by Wen Wei Po was attended by 84 tea merchants in Shanghai alone. When I was invited to present the gold medal, the leader of the Fujian office in Shanghai whispered to me that even the third-prize tea merchants had made a lot of money selling tea in Shanghai.
Guizhou's tea has also entered Shanghai in recent years, the tea association has come, the agricultural committee has come, and Zunyi's tea has to cooperate with wang Yutai tea house, which has been famous on the beach for more than a hundred years, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger every year. When I meet some friends and have drunk tea from Guizhou, I have to say a few words when I see them:
"Guizhou's tea is good, especially the uniform hair tip, which can be said to be the best."
I will tell him in time: it is not only the top product, it is the second best tea in China's top ten famous teas. Both Chairman Mao and the Chongzhen Emperor liked it.
Some people also praised Zheng'an's white tea, saying that they did not expect that Guizhou people learned to make Anji white tea, and actually made it successfully, which is good and good, and the taste is pure.
I corrected him: Zheng'an white tea has existed since ancient times. Anji white tea was arose during the Southern Song Dynasty, as far as I know, Anji white tea is not as old as the white tea in Zheng'an, Guizhou, so the most expensive Anji white tea, sold for more than three thousand a pound; in Shenzhen, a pound of Zheng'an white tea, sold to tens of thousands of miles!
Wen You didn't believe it, his eyes widened and asked: How can I be lonely and unheard of, have I never heard of it?
I can only laugh at him: there are many things you don't know! The "three greens and one red" in Guizhou tea are not worse than those of other provinces. I don't believe you can taste it.
With that I took a small bag of Meitan Green Buds from my bag and brewed a cup in front of him.
Wen You looked at the small tea tip, the clear tea soup. Comparing the tea leaves in other cups, he froze and said in a loud voice: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it!" ”
Indeed, the total area of tea in Guizhou has now been cultivated to nearly 7 million mu. If you collect the tea produced in every acre of tea garden, it is an amazing yield.
Such a large yield, so much tea, how to sell it, and sell it for a good price?
I have the following thoughts. (Please read the next part of "Tea in Guizhou")
(Thanks to Teacher Ye Xin)