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The myth of Longjing tea
Legend has it that a long time ago, the Queen Mother held a grand flat peach party in the sky and invited immortals from all over the world to participate. Prodigies played and sang, offered tea and fruit, and went back and forth endlessly. Just as the fairy was holding a tea tray to deliver tea.

Suddenly, I heard the good-natured boy shout, "Sister-in-law Xian Di is very ill, rolling and screaming in bed, go quickly!" Inadvertently, the tea tray tilted and a teacup fell to the ground. The fairy was delirious and blanched, and went into the palace in three steps.

At this time, Lv Dongbin figured it out. He took the fairy's tea tray, handed the only seven cups of tea to the seven-hole fairy, and put them in front of him empty. He took out a magic pill and said to the fairy, "take it to save your wife and go to the world to find a cup." I will keep it for you for the time being. " The fairy was very grateful, thanked him and left.

"One day in the sky, a few years on the ground." The fairy fell to earth, landed in Hangzhou, became a monk, and went to Xishan to find a teacup. On this day, he saw a mountain crouching like a lion, revealing the valley of Shi Bi. There is a thatched house beside the bamboo forest in the mountain, and an 80-year-old woman sits at the door. The fairy stepped forward and asked, "Old benefactor, what is this place?"

The old lady replied, "Call Hui. According to the ancestors, one night, 10,000 golden lights suddenly fell from the sky, and it was called Huiluowu from then on. " The fairy was surprised and happy. She looked around and suddenly her eyes lit up. Isn't that my teacup? ?

It turns out that there is an old stone mortar full of garbage next to my aunt's house, which is covered with green grass. There is a crystal spider silk that hangs straight from the eaves into the stone mortar. Realizing that Spider Spirit was stealing fairy tea, the fairy said, "Old benefactor, can I exchange a gold ribbon for your mortar?"

Aunt said, "Do you want this mortar? It's no use keeping it anyway. You can take it! " The fairy thought, I have to find verbena to weave a nine-foot rope, tie it up and take it away.

As soon as the fairy left, my aunt thought, this mortar is dirty, how can you get your hands dirty! So I found a spoon, took out all the garbage, poured it in the field where there were 18 tea trees in front of my house, and found a rag to clean it.

I didn't want to disturb Spider Jing, but Spider Jing also said that someone had come to grab his tea! With a spell and a loud click, the stone mortar was driven deep into the ground. The fairy turned around with the rope and saw that the stone mortar was gone, so she had to return to heaven empty-handed.

Later, the "teacup" of the Heavenly Palace, which was driven underground, became a well. Once a dragon came to suck fairy tea, but the dragon left and left a well. This is the legendary Longjing. Things have changed, and so has history. Aunt's hut was transformed into the old Longjing Temple, which was later renamed the Gong Hu Temple in Longjing Village. Eighteen tea trees in front of the temple have been nourished by fairy dew, and the longer they grow, the more lush they are, and the higher their quality is.

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Historical origin

Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Hangzhou tea culture was on the rise. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the economy and culture on both sides of Qiantang River gradually developed, Lingyin Temple was built, and religious activities such as Buddhism and Taoism gradually prevailed, and the West Lake was gradually developed. Tea was planted and spread with the establishment of Taoist temple.

After the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Sui Dynasty, due to the convenient land and water transportation, Hangzhou became a "rich city" with scattered products in Southeast China, and the prosperity of Hang Cheng in Tang Dynasty began to appear. At this time, tea was widely planted in Hangzhou.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Longjing tea area had begun to take shape. At that time, Xianglin tea in Xianglin Cave in Lingyin, Baiyun tea in Bai Yunfeng, and Baoyun tea in Baoyun Mountain in Geling were listed as tributes. During the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that "the tea in Hangjun County is not as good as the production of Longjing, but the fine buds before the rain are especially precious."

Longjing tea began to have a good reputation in the Yuan Dynasty. Yu Ji, a tea lover, has a poem about drinking tea in a well in Youlong. The poem reads: "In the well of Youlong, clouds are steaming and Xia Wei. Cooking golden buds, three pharynx can't bear to wash "is widely sung.

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River six times and Longjing four times, wrote six poems about Longjing tea, and personally sealed "eighteen imperial tea trees", which raised Longjing tea to the supreme position. After the Republic of China, Longjing Tea gradually became the first famous tea in China.

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