According to legend, around 1720, there was an old tea farmer, Yin Wei (1703- 1775), who was diligent in growing tea, deeply believed in Buddhism and worshipped Guanyin. Offer a cup of green tea in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva every morning and evening. It has never stopped for decades. One night, he fell asleep and dreamed that he was carrying a hoe out of the house. He came to a stream and suddenly found a tea tree in a crevice. It was strong and leafy, which was different from the tea tree he had seen ... The next morning, he searched along the road in his dream last night, and sure enough, he made a stone pit in Guanyin Lun. A closer look reveals that the tea leaves are oval, fleshy, with purple buds and green leaves about to drip: Yin Wei was very happy, so he dug up this tea tree and planted it in a small iron pot at home, carefully cultivating it. Therefore, tea is obtained from Guanyin, hence the name "Tieguanyin".
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According to legend, Wang Tulang, a native of Nanyan, Xiping, Anxi, served as a deputy tribute in the tenth year of Qing Yongzheng, served as a judge in Jinzhou, the state capital of Huguang, and once built a study at the foot of Nanshan, named "Nanxuan". In the spring of the first year of Qing Qianlong (1736), Wang He and his friends wrote in Nanxuan. Whenever the sun goes down, I wander around Nanxuan. One day, he happened to find a tea tree in a deserted garden, so he transplanted it into Nanxuan's tea garden, managed it day and night, carefully cultivated it and propagated it year after year. The tea tree is luxuriant in branches and leaves, and the center of the leaves is red. The finished product is moist and fat. After soaking, it is fragrant and mellow. Six years later, Wang Shirang was called to Beijing to meet Fang Bao, assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and gave this tea to Fang Bao. Fang Bao tasted it with extraordinary taste and sent it to the court. After the emperor drank it, he praised it and asked about the history of Yaoyang tea. Therefore, tea is moist and solid, heavy as iron, delicious, like Guanyin, and named Tieguanyin.
There are also some legends similar to the above two legends. These legends are similar in that tea trees are all related to Guanyin Bodhisattva, so the name of tea has the word "Guanyin". There are two explanations for the word "iron": one is that the leaves of tea trees shine "iron color" in the sun, and the other is that the tea leaves are "brown as iron" after fermentation.
The main producing area of Tieguanyin in Anxi is "Inner Anxi" in the west, with an altitude of1.045m-Lantian Township, Anxi County. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, the mountains are continuous and misty, and the soil is mostly acidic red soil with deep soil layer, which is especially suitable for the growth of tea trees. Tieguanyin is produced in Xiping, Anxi County, Fujian Province. Inner Anxi has a subtropical monsoon climate. The folk proverb here says: "There are flowers in four seasons, and there is no snow and thunder in severe winter", which is unique, surrounded by mountains, and the soil is mostly weak acid red soil, which is very suitable for the growth of tea, and can be described as the aura of the earth. Anxi Tieguanyin is fat, curly and firm, with golden and bright soup color, rich fragrance, long aftertaste, rich taste, mellow and fresh, fragrant at the entrance, sweet and sweet aftertaste, and has the reputation of "seven bubbles with fragrance".
Anxi Tieguanyin "bathes in the essence of the sun and the moon, gathers the spirit of the mountains, and gets the glow of haze. Eating it can cure all diseases." Drinking Tieguanyin tea regularly is good for health and longevity, just like the blessing of Guanyin Bodhisattva. In addition, after Anxi Tieguanyin tea is brewed, it is as heavy as iron and shaped like Guanyin, hence the name "Tieguanyin".