A piece of tea cake, boxy, a white paper, wrapped in three reds and seven greens, holding this rich fragrance, I don't know how many processes it took, only this touch of floral fragrance, golden tea soup, take a sip gently, slightly bitter after the return of sweetness, the tip of the tongue has since remembered the name of this tea - Zhangping Daffodil Tea.
Zhangping, located in a superior geographical location, known as "nine mountains and half water and half a field", suitable climate, warm and humid, abundant rain, no severe cold in winter, no heat in summer, providing favorable natural environmental conditions for the growth of tea.
Where there is tea, there is history, there is culture, water tea fairy, beautiful names like flower tea, there are also their own stories. According to historical records, during the Yuan Dynasty, there began to be the cultivation of Daffodil tea, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the planting began to scale, and there were tea processing workshops, the most famous Daffodil tea cake, also known as paper bag tea, is Zhangping Shuangyang Zhongcun tea man Deng Zhongjin in 1914 original craftsmanship, passed down to this day.
Walking into the beautiful Landscape of Beiliao Village, along the way, the scenery is beautiful, and you can see small green leaves spread on the ground everywhere, accepting the baptism of the sun. The tea farmer spreads the fresh leaves on the ground very quickly, and cannot delay for a second, skillful movements, fresh leaves sprinkle on the sunbathing mat.
Among the six major types of tea in China, oolong tea, Pu'er tea, and white tea are the only three teas involved in the sun-based process. As the first process, it can be said that it directly affects the back of the shaking, frying, and styling.
Sunburn is the use of sunlight irradiation and wind blowing withering, so that part of the fresh leaf water evaporated, the leaves become soft, more suitable for shaking green, tea farmers said, if you choose natural daylight sun, it is best at 16:00-17:00 in the afternoon, the light is soft, the fresh leaves are evenly spread out, do not have to turn, but if not in this time period, the light is too strong, the sunning process needs to be mixed in time.
Then visited the shaking machine, the development of agricultural mechanization, advanced machinery instead of artificial labor, but in the past, shaking qing is artificially holding a round bamboo sieve shaking green, "overturning the river and pouring the sea out of the oolong" describes the scene of the tea farmers when they shake the green artificially, it can be said that every shake is the awakening of the fresh leaves of the tea tree.
While walking and watching, the beautiful scenery of Beiliao Village is full of tea culture, from natural landscapes to humanistic murals.
Finally came to a relatively large tea processing point, fortunately saw the artificial paper wrapped tea, we entered the operation room, the cute child innocently asked: "Are you here to learn to pack tea ~~?" ”
His mother and aunt are serious and skillful operation, basically wrapped a square daffodil tea takes about 20 seconds, do not underestimate this step, this is also the oolong tea family, only our daffodil tea unique - square cake, through the shape, the daffodil tea wrapped in paper into a cake, the purpose of this is, after baking, can be the taste and aroma firmly locked in the tea cake.
After the visit, came to the tea room to repair for a moment, the little sister brewed a cup of daffodil tea for us, along the way also a little thirsty, take a sip, the slight bitter taste turned back to sweet, and with a faint orchid fragrance, just like the name has a hint of sweetness.
The biggest feeling of This time Fujian Longyan is that Longyan this place has good mountains and good water scenery, superior geographical location and suitable climate for many agricultural products to provide a convenient growth environment, such as our Zhangping County Daffodil Tea, on the color, soup color orange and yellow, on the smell, fragrant as orchids, on the taste, mellow and sweet, it can be said that the red and green cake-like Daffodil tea has gathered the color fragrance, tasted so much tea, this is the first time to meet the Daffodil tea, the tip of the tongue is in love with this bitter and then back to the sweet light orchid fragrance ~