Among the four major tea producing areas in China, the Jiangnan tea producing area in China should be the tea producing area with the largest tea production in China. The main areas are northern Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, Hunan, southern Anhui, Fujian and other places, and the tea produced is mainly green tea, and the more famous ones are West Lake Longjing, Junshan Silver Needle, Dongting Biluochun, Anji White Tea, Nanjing Yuhua Tea, Taiping Monkey Kui, Huangshan Maofeng, Keemun Black Tea and so on. However, looking back at the history of china's tea cultivation and development, as the Yangxian tea producing area in southern Jiangsu, it was once the main production area of imperial tribute tea, and it is said that during the Middle and Tang Dynasties, Yangxian tea began to become famous. Tea Saint Lu Yu has also been in the YangXian generation to investigate and study tea making.
Huzhou Datang Gong Tea House adjacent to Yixing Twenty-Three Bay
My hometown is Yixing, Yixing produced Yang envy tea, there are Yang envy snow buds and Yixing black tea, today focus on Yixing black tea, Yixing black tea, in order to distinguish Hubei Yichang black tea (Yihong), Yixing black tea later referred to as - Su Hong, compared to the reputation of Yixing purple sand, Yixing black tea is more like hiding in the boudoir is not recognized. Indeed, Yixing purple sand has become famous at home and abroad, but Yixing black tea has gradually been appreciated by more people with the development of eco-tourism in Yixing in recent years.
Southern Mountainous Area of Yixing - Bamboo Forest of Twenty-Three Bay Tea District
Yixing black tea, tea producing area belongs to the Tianmu Mountains. Its tea leaves are characterized by tight knots in appearance and dark color. Yixing black tea itself has no classification, in Yixing can only be classified according to the shape of tea: leaf tea, broken tea, slice tea, end tea, but in my childhood impression, the taste of Yixing black tea is the taste of the village grandmothers in the spring tea season every day to get up early in the morning and over the mountains to pick wild mountain tea. With the development of the tea economy, there are more and more local tea-making enterprises in Yixing, and the exploration and development of various processes have also produced some local and even national famous black tea brands, such as qianhong early spring tea of Qianyuan Tea Industry, 100-year-old red of Yonghong Tea Factory, etc. The improvement of the process and the scientific management of the tea industry have made Yixing black tea now known to more people.
In fact, in our Yixing local area, most people basically drink our local black tea, especially some old tea customers, every day must brew a large cup of black tea, Yixing black tea is everyone's ration tea, like the name of our mountain village, many will be their own tea industry, wait until the tea season to pick dozens of pounds of their own processing into a year's ration tea. Most homes will have some Yixing black tea for daily drinking or as a reception.
A large bowl of tea is served at The Temple of Ancestral Hall at the top of 23 Bay
My family's back mountain tea is from 2000 began to grow, just began extensive management, the annual yield is not very high, and then and Anji tea scholars learned how to improve the soil environment and scientific control of tea plant diseases and insect pests, now the annual tea production and quality are improving, the average altitude of the mountain top is about 300-400 meters, day and night temperature difference and mountain microclimate to provide a high-quality natural ecological environment for the growth of tea trees. The quality of tea is also improving year by year, and there are more and more regular tea customers.
My home is back in the camellia garden
Yixing, as a scenic eco-tourism city in southern Jiangsu, has become more and more well known by tourists from all over the country in recent years, and more and more friends have come to Yixing to play. Yixing Zhuhai, Zhanggongdong, Yunutan, Longshan Homestay Village, Yada YangxianXi Mountain, Liang Zhu Hometown, Twenty-three Bay, etc., these are Yixing's famous tourist punch card attractions, both beautiful and profound natural scenery, but also rich in historical cultural landscapes, with more and more tourists come to visit, Yixing black tea as an oasis of Yixing tea a business card, but also more and more people understand and like.