We all know that the life span of ordinary tea trees is decades, and some trees can last for hundreds of years. But tea trees in Yunnan can be called "ancient tree tea" for thousands of years. Why can they live so long and flourish?
It is precisely because of the "longevity gene" that the common tea tree in the southeast and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is a shrub with small leaves and short characteristics, which will be replaced in a few decades. Yunnan ancient tea tree is a broad-leaved tree with continuous growth and developed root system. This is what we call the "longevity gene". Simply put, tea trees in Yunnan are different from ordinary tea trees and trees. Tea trees in Yunnan are more like pine, cypress and ginkgo, but the leaves of Yunnan tea trees are drinkable.
People in China like to fill shapes with shapes. We eat sea cucumbers in the hope of supplementing their regenerative ability. Eat walnuts for brain and pork loin for kidney. The classic treatise of traditional Chinese medicine "Huangdi Neijing Wuchang Zheng Da" once said: "Deficiency can be supplemented, medicine can be dispersed, and food can be taken with it." How can you not drink tea with a clear longevity gene?
Knowing that Yunnan's tea is very good, how to choose it? Most people accept Yunnan Pu 'er tea. If you want to know how to choose tea, you must know how to make all kinds of tea. Most people drink Pu 'er tea, which is made of coarse old tea. After kneading and drinking, the tea leaves are dark and the tea soup is dark brown. Therefore, when drinking Pu 'er, you should wash the tea twice, because the processing process is complicated and it is easy to be contaminated with redundant things. Yunnan black tea is also fermented by kneading for a long time, but the process is relatively dry. After kneading, the leaf cells were incomplete and the endosperm changed.
So what kind of tea retains the endoplasm most completely? The answer is white tea. Yunnan white tea is collected from big leaf tea tree with longevity gene. The production process is only withering and air-drying, so the most complete leaves are preserved. Many people think that sun-dried white tea leaves are like a pile of leaves, which is not beautiful. For white tea, except for its ugly appearance, there are other advantages: the leaves of white tea preserve intact cells, are very resistant to foaming, and can even be stewed. A pot of white tea can be drunk for one day. In addition, the health care function of white tea has been recognized, and drinking white tea to keep fit and prevent colds has become a kind of knowledge.
I hope more people can benefit from white tea! Yunnan white tea, please.