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Worm tea, may be many tea friends have heard, not necessarily drunk, or do not want to drink, from the name is difficult to accept. In fact, worm feces tea, also known as "Dragon Ball Tea", is a special tea that ethnic minorities such as Miao and Yao people living at the junction of Guangxi, Hunan and Guizhou provinces and regions like to drink. The local people piled together branches and leaves such as wild vines, tea leaves and incense trees, thus attracting many small black worms, and when these small black worms finished eating the branches and leaves piled together, what was left were granular insect droppings smaller than black sesame seeds and some remnant stems. Use a sieve to remove the residue, take its worm droppings, and the nickname "Dragon Ball". Put it on the pot and fry it dry, then mix the honey, tea leaves, and worm droppings in a certain proportion and then stir-fry, and the worm tea will be concocted. Black brown, granular, sesame grain size. The taste is mellow and sweet, with a ripe aroma.
If measured by the scientific definition of tea, insect feces tea is not tea, but the way people eat the feces of this insect is similar to the way we drink tea, so it is called "tea". Worm feces tea is not tea, but it is a strange flower in tea-like drinks.
Worm feces tea is a literal translation of the pronunciation of ethnic minorities in the place of origin, and the scientific name is worm tea. "Insect tea" is actually just a general term, according to the insects to eat different plants and different, insect tea main varieties are trilobite tea, white tea insect tea, fragrant insect tea.
Trilobite tea: only produced in Chengbu County, Hunan, the production is the rarest, the price is more than 10,000 yuan per kilogram, and the market is rare.
White tea worm tea: mainly produced in Chishui and surrounding areas of Guizhou, the most famous is sidonggou production. The annual output of Sidonggou insect tea is only 200 pounds, and the insect tea is weighed according to grams, which is as expensive as gold. The production of white tea insect tea in other regions is not much, and the market share is not much.
Insect tea: mainly produced in Guangxi, Guizhou, is the largest production and sales volume, the most drunk insect tea. There are many varieties of fragrant insect tea, which is the best produced in Guizhou's high-altitude cloudy and foggy place, and Guizhou high-slope cloud insect tea has a black and bright color, which is the unique feature of fragrant insect tea. Guizhou low-altitude insect tea is similar to Guangxi insect tea, the color is gray and dark, and there is a musty taste in the cooked flavor, and the particles of this insect tea are slightly larger than those of high-altitude insect tea.
The nutritional value of insect tea is high, containing a variety of essential amino acids, a considerable amount of crude protein, crude fat, sugars, tannins, vitamins and other nutrients and trace elements.
Insect tea has a long history of production and consumption in China. As early as the Ming Dynasty, It was recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica". Worm tea is a good medical health drink, according to records, worm tea has the effect of clearing heat, heat removal, detoxification, stomach, digestion and so on, diarrhea, epistaxis, gum bleeding and hemorrhoid bleeding have a good effect, is an important cool drink in tropical and subtropical areas. Since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, insect tea has been regarded as a treasure and paid regular tribute to the imperial court every year. Nowadays, insect tea has become famous at home and abroad.
Guan Chajun: So the worm tea should be sweet to drink, the next time you encounter it, you may wish to try it!
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