When to start drinking tea in China, everyone has different opinions and can't reach an agreement. But generally speaking, it can be said that it began in the Han Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea, Lu Yu's tea classic volume "Drink of Six Teas" was a general statement, saying: "Tea is a kind of drink, which originated from Shennong and was heard in Duke Zhou of Lu. Yan Ying in Qi, Han You, Jin You, Liu Kun, Zhang Zai, Yuan Zunan, Xie An and Zuo Si all drink. " But many of them are not historical facts. It is a historical fact, and it is not easy to understand without appearances. "Tea Classic" says: Shennong's book "Tea is long-lasting, strong and pleasing" (Liu Yuanchang's Tea History, Volume 1). Lu Yu's Tea Classic holds that drinking tea originated from Shennong's family, but the Book of Food Classic is a fake book, which is well known and not credible. Erya has a saying "bitter tea". The world regards Erya as the work of Duke Zhou. It is wrong to think that drinking tea began in the Duke of Zhou, but I don't know that Erya was not written by Duke of Zhou. There is not enough evidence to start drinking tea. Yan Zi's Spring and Autumn Annals Under the Miscellaneous Clouds says that "Yan Zi is harmonious, wearing ten liters of cloth, eating millet and eating five eggs of moss", thinking that drinking tea (that is, tea) began in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, Yan Zi Chun Qiu was not written by Qi Yanying, so it is difficult to be established. Moreover, Wan Weiting's Collection of Sleepy Learning says: "This edition of Yan Zi's Miscellaneous Chapters in the Spring and Autumn Annals is a three-and-a-half-year-old moss dish, which is cited as tea and carried by people in a tea ceremony ..." Although it is tea, it is not drinkable tea. Therefore, drinking tea is invisible in the classics. The world also takes the poem "Who is bitter for tea" as proof of drinking tea. I don't know if this tea is bitter, not "tea bitter", and I can't sell myself short. There seems to be no wind of drinking tea during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, Zhou Li Tianguan Jiazi No.1 said that the pulp man provided Wang with six kinds of drinks, one is water, the other is pulp, the third is water, the fourth is cold, the fifth is medicine and the sixth is unitary. I haven't seen tea ... Since the Han Dynasty, drinking tea has been recorded from time to time. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu drank the wine of his ministers at a rate of seven liters, but only two liters, or reduced it, or used tea as wine ("The History of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Wei Yaochuan"), which may be used to entertain guests. Why else would there be tea at the banquet? Zhang Hua, a Jin native, once said that "drinking real tea can make people sleep less" (Zhang Hua's Natural History), which means that Jin people also have the habit of drinking tea, so tea has a long history. Song Peihan's Tea Story said: "Tea originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished today (Song Dynasty)." Correct mistakes. "Galand in Luoyang" refers to the period when Liang Wudi and Tian Jian started drinking tea in the Southern Dynasties, which is particularly wrong. The so-called wind of drinking tea began in the Han and Wei Dynasties and prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Because it was not common in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, how can we say Han and Wei Dynasties? Here are two anecdotes from Miscellanies of Tea History:

When Xiao, the king of Qi, first entered Wei, he did not eat mutton crisp paste, but often ate fresh fish soup and longed for tea juice. When he saw Xiao drinking a bucket of water, the number was missed. Later, he and Gaozu ate goat cheese porridge. Gaozu asked him that in Japan, sheep was the ancestor of land animals and fish was the leader of aquatic animals. Their interests were different and they were all called treasures ... but tea was missed, and they were different from each other.

When Zheng De surrendered, Yuan Yi wanted to make a name for himself. First, he asked how deep he was in the water. Zheng De doesn't know what he means. One day: Xiaguan was born in a water town. Since he became independent, he hasn't suffered from Yang Hou, and all the guests laughed.

Before, Wei Jing, a scholar of the Northern Dynasties, saw Xiao drinking tea, calling it strange and famous. From the latter point of view, if Youyangte wants to prepare tea for Xiao Zhengde, it is rare and strange, and it is not a household item, which at least proves that this is not an ordinary thing. Otherwise, it is not something used by Xianbei people in the Northern Dynasties. At this time, drinking tea may be confined to a certain place and is not popular among the people. So it can only be called the beginning of drinking tea. The popularity of drinking tea began in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty began to like drinking tea. Dongpo's poem says, "Send bitter tea and drink it out of the world." It is based on today's tea. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has become commonplace for ordinary people to drink several bowls of wine every day.

Tea drinking began in the Han nationality, especially in the south. Northerners drank it, and they almost fell behind. Especially late abroad. Feng Ji, quoted earlier, said that "Southerners love to drink, but northerners don't drink much at first", which can prove that the hobbies of the north and the south are different successively, so drinking tea in foreign countries must be after northerners. The same book also says: "(drinking tea) ... starts in the middle and flows through the Great Wall. It is very strange to go back to the DPRK in previous years and drive away the famous horse market tea. " It can be seen that exchanging tea for horses with foreigners did not begin in the Song Dynasty, but actually began in the Tang Dynasty. It can also be seen that China tea exports to foreigners began in the Tang Dynasty. There is also a reason why foreigners like tea covers in China.

The Official History of the Song Dynasty said: "(Song Zhezong) Fu Yuan was at the end, and Cheng Yuan Shao Yan was addicted to eating meat and drinking cheese, so tea made him sick, and Yi Shu was the best."

"The History of the Ming Dynasty: Food Records" said: "Barbarians are fond of cheese, and if they can't have tea, they will be sick. Therefore, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, tea has been exchanged for horses, and Qiang and Rong have been used. " Just like this. In Lu You's Book of Southern Tang Dynasty, it is mentioned that although Qidan has trade with Southern Tang Dynasty, it is just empty talk that it is beneficial to southern tea pearl oyster. It's true. Beifan likes meat and must drink tea, because tea can remove the strong taste of meat. Today, Mongolians like drinking tea, which can be taken as an example. If they don't drink tea, they often get sick. No wonder they often exchange tea with famous Mahan people. Group tea named in the Tang and Song Dynasties was especially loved by barbarians, who often paid a lot of money to buy it. There is such a record in Zhang Song Shunmin's Notes on Painting: "Su Zhong Zi Rong of Xining made Liao Yaolin as his deputy and said,' Cover it with some small tea'." Zi Rong said, "This is a gift." I dare to cooperate with northerners. Soon after, your son asked Liao Guang to store tea. Since northerners don't accept group tea, they don't buy it, and small groups are not expensive. He bought a horse with two groups. "

Like this magpie in the Tang Dynasty, the Qidan in the Song Dynasty, and even the ancient Tubo Kingdom in Xia and Jin Dynasties, people who eat meat and drink cheese are not good at tea. Therefore, Xifan in Xining area of Tiaohe in Ming Dynasty was owned by tea horses.

..... In the Ming Dynasty, the trade in tea was not autocratic, but private tea was prohibited from leaving the country. Offenders beheaded, set up Tea and Horse Department, easy to make tea with Xifan. At the same time, in the land where tea is produced, there is one plant in ten, and there are eight plants in ten. In order to meet the needs of tea, it can be done wholeheartedly, but it is just "the art of surrendering to Xirong". Therefore, China tea spread to foreign countries, on the one hand, because of the requirements of foreign life, and on the other hand, because China was unable to stabilize foreign countries or needed foreign horses, he had to do whatever he wanted, trade tea with them or detain them. Therefore, after the taxation in the Tang Dynasty, the interior of tea was kept by the national treasury, which was safe for the outside world.

Tea is a specialty of China, or its origin, and then spread in the eastern ocean. First of all, it describes the origin of Japanese tea drinking custom in the East. Before China tea was introduced to Japan, it was said that there were wild teas in "Chihiro", namely, Zhuyeqi Mountain, Fat Front Deer, Jiumo Eighth Generation Deer, Tsukuba Leaf Wife, Former Mao Youchuan and Houyoko Nao. Is it only used as a drink by Japanese people, and is it planted? Unknown. Japanese tea varieties were handed down from China. In the early period of the Ping 'an Dynasty, among the craggy emperors in Wuping City, monks who spread Hongdao and invited foreigners to study abroad came to the Tang Dynasty continuously. They were all descendants of tea varieties. He was the most outstanding figure in the Tang Dynasty at that time. When Sima Koukou of Taizhou returned to China, he once sent brew tea farewell, that is, he took tea seeds to Japan and planted them in Sakamoto, Jiangzhou. Or under the rule of Emperor Shengwu in Nara Dynasty, a monk once brought tea to the Medicine Palace in Shenzhou, and he was not sure whether it was planted in China. When tea seeds were exported to the people, there were few Japanese, especially those who drank tea seeds. At that time, although there was a saying in Ying Gong's poems that "Oriental Ming is awake, drink a cup of tea", tea drinking was not popular during about 180 years from the Heian Dynasty to the Cang Dynasty, but was only a consumer product among noble monks. During Ren Zhi's reign, he entered the Song Dynasty twice. When Master Rong returned to China, the culture of planting tea trees and drinking tea began to spread throughout the country. The Zen master entered the Song Dynasty, the first time was in Ren 'an in summer, and he went to Tiantai Mountain in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. He deeply felt the spirit of tea and returned to China in autumn. Bring tea and plant it in the vestibule of Leizhenshan Square in Saga Prefecture, Fukuoka. It is called rock tea. It is also planted in Qianguang Temple of Yamamoto Toyota in Mitsui County, the same county. The second time, after the establishment of Wenzhi for a long time, the returning ship first went to Pinghu Weipu in Nagasaki, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs built a small temple and opened a Dojo. The Zen master planted tea near the temple.

Today, tea is produced in Daino, Nagasaki and Saga counties in Kyushu, Japan. The source of drinking water is given by master Rong. Zen master once wrote "Eating Tea for Health". He is famous for curing the hangover of the poet General Palace dynasty with tea. Later, Minghui's master also planted tea in Yamato, a mountain city. There are many artificial plants, and the wind of drinking tea is strong. The master once said, "The mystery of the tea ceremony is the essence of Kitajima Thai's time and frugality." Indirectly, it has great influence on Japanese politics. From then on, tea drinking became more popular in Japan, and many tea shops appeared. At that time, people wrote a poem: "Open tea shops everywhere, one yuan an hour. Life is simple and hungry. " It shows the atmosphere at that time.

The beginning of western tea drinking. Europeans know that tea began in Portugal in the16th century and spread to Europe. /kloc-At the beginning of the 0/7th century, the dominant player in European eastern trade was the Portuguese, whose base was in Macau, Guangdong. Macao people are the first people to drink tea in Europe. Only Guangdong, a non-tea producing area, has little influence on the spread of tea. After the Dutch went east, they arrived in Fuzhou in the south of China, where China produced tea. That was in 1600. Europeans first used tea as medicine, and the Dutch East India Company exported very little tea to Europe, which was the beginning of western tea. European medicine is convinced of the function of tea, just as China people first drank tea. French aristocrats regard China's tea as a treasure, which is extremely precious. At that time, tea was expensive, and there was a legend that brick tea was included in the gold box as a gift. Tea was imported to Britain around 1660, when a teahouse was built in London. Around this time, when King Charles XIII of England married the Portuguese emperor as the queen of the inner prince in 1662, tea was included in the queen's gift. This is the first karma between the British royal family and tea. After that, the wind of drinking tea was second to that of the people. Pippi, an Englishman, was given tea from time to time and kept a diary saying, "I have never seen anything for China people. Is this a medicinal drink that the pharmacologist Ba Ling said has the effect of treating colds or cerebral congestion? " When tea was first used as medicine, it was the same in China and Japan. Then, in 1664, the East India Company presented tea to the king of England. At that time, the price of tea, a pound worth sixty shillings, was extremely expensive. Coffee was exported to Europe around 1580, 20 years earlier than tea, and was first imported by Arab merchants. Although the ancestors are the mainstay, in Britain, backward tea is indeed superior. By 1700, people will lose an average of 2000 pounds of tea every year, and in the next decade, the average will be about140,000 pounds. By 1780, Europe imported 5.5 million pounds, while Britain surged to12.2 million pounds, and coffee imports lagged behind. Then Britain led India, competing to grow tea against China. Due to import duties, Indian black tea cultivation has developed rapidly, and the quantity exported to Britain in 1888 exceeded that of China tea. English people drink morning tea and afternoon tea. Go out at home, meditate and talk without drinking tea. Each person consumes an average of nine kilograms of tea every year, which can be described as a "tea-loving nation".

Tea was not born in Britain, western countries or Japan, but in China. Therefore, China was not only famous for its spiritual civilization in ancient times, but also had a good material life. What is the so-called "great country civilization"?

Six dynasties theory

Tea drinking in China began in the Six Dynasties. Some people think that it started with "Sun Hao replacing wine with tea", others think that it started with "Wang Suming drinking", while Japanese and Indians say that tea drinking started with "Dharma meditation". However, the theory of Qin and Han dynasties has solid historical evidence, which weakens the correctness of the theory of Six Dynasties.

(1) Dharma meditation: According to legend, Dharma went to China from eastern India and vowed not to sleep for nine years. Dharma succeeded in the first three years and finally fell asleep. When Dharma woke up, he was ashamed and angry, so he cut off his eyelids and threw them on the ground. Soon, young trees were born under the eyelids, with sparse branches and leaves and abundant business. For the next five years, Dharma was sober, but a year later, it was invaded by the sandman. Dharma ate the leaves beside him, and immediately after eating, his mind was clear and clear, and he was able to complete the nine-year meditation vows. The leaves that Dharma eats are the tea of later generations. This is the saying that drinking tea in the Six Dynasties originated from Buddhism. The story captures the characteristics of tea and expounds the refreshing effect of tea elements.

(2) Sun Hao replaced wine with tea: According to the biography of the Three Kingdoms Wei Yaochuan, Sun Hao, the emperor of Wu, led his ministers to drink, stipulating that people attending the banquet should drink at least seven liters, while Wei Yao was so drunk that he drank two liters, so Sun Hao often replaced wine with tea cups. This shows that in the Three Kingdoms period, drinking tea was very popular in the upper class at that time, and there was a precedent of "replacing wine with tea".

(3) Wang Suming's tea drinking: Before the Tang Dynasty, people drank tea called "drinking tea", just like cooking and drinking soup, it was used to quench thirst or to accompany meals. This statement can be seen from yang xian's "Luoyang Galand Ji" in the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to the book, people who liked "drinking tea" at that time were mainly from the Southern Dynasties, while northerners drank more cream every day. The book also records a story: In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Wang Su, an official of the State of Qi in Nanhu, told the Northern Wei Dynasty that when he first arrived, he was not used to eating mutton and cream in the north, so he often ate crucian carp soup as a meal and drank tea juice when he was thirsty. In one gulp, Luoyang, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was king. A few years later, the Northern Wei Emperor gave a banquet. At the banquet, Wang Su ate a lot of mutton with cream. Gaozu asked Wang Su, "What do you think of mutton compared with crucian carp soup?" Wang Su replied: "As a small country living in seclusion, fish can't compete with mutton, but orchids and autumn chrysanthemums have their own advantages. It's just that the juice boiled from tea is not good, so I have to be a slave to cheese. " As soon as this allusion spread, Tea Juice was dubbed "Cheese Slave". This record shows that drinking tea is the fashion of southerners. From aristocrats to gentry to civilians, there are good people and even necessities in daily life, while northerners discriminate against drinking tea. Secondly, at that time, drinking tea was a cow drink, and some people even drank a cup of two liters, which was very different from drinking slow tea later.

4〤 Reasons for drinking tea

Now, we can think that tea has been recognized and used for a long time in China, as well as the cultivation and harvest of tea trees. But why did humans drink tea in the first place? How did you get into the habit of drinking tea?

1, Sacrifice said: This statement holds that tea and other plants were first used as sacrifices. Later, some people found that it was harmless to eat, so it was "eaten by sacrifices, but eaten by vegetables, but used as medicine" and eventually became a drink.

2. Pharmacology: This view holds that tea "originally entered human society as a medicine." Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica wrote: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and when he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, he was relieved by tea."

3. Eating: "The ancients drank water like grass" and "the people put food first". Eating first conforms to the evolutionary law of human society.

4. Synchronization: At first, tea was used as a chewing food, or as a baked food, and was gradually consumed as a medicinal material.

The comparison and accumulation of these ways will eventually form the habit of drinking tea.

The most useless of the above statements is the fourth, which adds up the first three and becomes your own "foolproof" explanation. Perhaps this explanation is the most appropriate.

5. The widespread popularity of tea.

However, it can also be verified that tea is widely used in all walks of life, probably after Lu Yu's Tea Classic was handed down in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, there is a poem in the Song Dynasty that "since Lu Yu was born, the world has learned from each other's strengths and made spring tea". In other words, after the invention of tea, 1000 was not known to the public for many years.

6 is the birthplace of tea trees.

The exploration of this point often focuses on the study of the birthplace of tea trees. There are several sayings about the birthplace of tea trees:

1, Southwest China: Southwest China is the origin and birthplace of tea trees. This statement refers to a large range, so it is more accurate.

2. Sichuan said: Qing. Gu Rizhilu: "After Qin people took Shu, they had tea." The implication is that before Qin people came to Shu, drinking tea was known in Sichuan today. In fact, Sichuan is in the southwest, and Sichuan says it is established, so the southwest says it is established.

3. Yunnan said: Xishuangbanna, Yunnan is the birthplace of tea trees, and this area is the kingdom of plants. It is entirely possible to have local tea trees, but tea trees can be local, and Chaze is the result of active labor.

4. East Sichuan and West Hubei said: Lu Yu's "Tea Classic": "Bashan Xia Chuan embraced each other." Bashan Gorge and Sichuan are now East Sichuan and West Hubei. There is no evidence that anyone has used such excellent tea trees in this area as tea.

5. Jiangsu and Zhejiang said: Recently, it was suggested that it started from the ancient Yue culture represented by Hemudu culture. At present, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are the most developed areas of tea industry in China. If history can take root here, it is a very meaningful topic.

7 (10) Top Ten Famous Tea in China

China tea has a long history, and all kinds of tea varieties are colorful and compete with each other, just like the glory sown by dragons and phoenixes, which makes the mountains and rivers in Wan Li extraordinarily enchanting. China famous tea is a treasure among many tea varieties. At the same time, China famous tea enjoys a high reputation in the world. Famous tea can be divided into traditional tea and historical tea.

1, Hangzhou West Lake Longjing, ranking first among the famous teas in China. Produced in the mountainous area around West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. For many years, Hangzhou is famous not only for the beautiful West Lake, but also for Longjing tea. According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong visited Hangzhou, he wrote a poem in Tianzhu, Longjing Tea District, entitled "Watching Tea Picking and Making Songs". West Lake Longjing tea is ranked first with "lion (peak), dragon (well), cloud (border), tiger (running) and plum (home dock)", and West Lake Longjing tea ranks first. Longjing tea is straight and sharp, flat and handsome, smooth and even, and yellow in color. After brewing, the aroma is high and lasting, and the fragrance is fragrant; Tangse apricot is green, clear and bright, with light green leaves and upright buds, which are lifelike. Tea soup is refreshing, fragrant between teeth, and endless aftertaste.

2. Biluochun in Dongting, Suzhou, Jiangsu ranked second. One of the famous green teas in China. Dongting Biluochun Tea is produced in Dongting Mountain, Taihu Lake, Wuxian County, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Locals call it "scary and fragrant." Biluochun tea strips are slender, curled into snails, covered with fine hairs and green in color. After brewing, the taste is fresh and smooth, the fragrance is fragrant, the soup color is clear and the leaves are even and tender. Especially for the senior Biluochun, you can flush the water before putting the tea, and the tea still sinks slowly, and the leaves are scattered and fragrant. This is a strong performance of tea buds, which is incomparable to other teas. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "Biluochun" has been "copper wire strips, spirals, long hair all over, tender (referring to bud leaves) and three fresh (referring to color, fragrance and taste) since ancient times." At present, most of them are still fried by hand, and the technological process is: fixing-frying-kneading-baking. The three processes are completed in one go in the same pot. The characteristic of frying is to knead while frying, and the key is to improve the fineness, that is, to knead and bake.

3. Taiping Huangshan Mao Feng Huangshan Mao Feng Tea is produced in Huangshan Mountain, south of Taiping County and north of Shexian County. Huangshan Mao Feng Tea Garden is located around Yungu Temple, Songgu Temple, Diaoqiao Temple, Ciguang Pavilion and Banshan Temple, with an altitude of1.200m.. Tea trees are soaked in steamed clouds every day, so the tea buds are particularly fat, soft and tender, with thick leaves, foam resistance, rich fragrance and sweet taste, making them the top grade of tea. The collection of Huangshan tea is quite fine. It is clear that the picking period starts from the long summer of Ming Dynasty, and the collected bud heads and fresh leaves should be carefully picked, and the old leaves and stems should be removed to make the buds neat and consistent. In production, it is necessary to control the deactivation temperature according to the quality of bud leaves, so as not to produce red stalks, red leaves and uneven deactivation; The fire temperature should first be high and then low, and then gradually decrease, so that the blade temperature is uniform and the physical and chemical changes are consistent. Whenever tea is made, you can smell the fragrance near the tea factory. The quality characteristics of Huangshan Mao Feng are: the shape is thin, flat and slightly curly, like a sparrow's tongue covered with silver, the soup color is clear and apricot yellow, and the aroma is as long as that of Prynne.

4. Anxi Tieguanyin belongs to green tea and is one of the famous oolong teas in China. Anxi Tieguanyin tea is produced in Anxi County, Fujian Province. Anxi Tieguanyin tea has a long history and is known as the king of tea. According to records, Anxi Tieguanyin tea originated in Yongzheng period of Gan Qing (1725 ~ 1735). Anxi county is mountainous, with warm climate and abundant rainfall. Tea trees grow luxuriantly, and there are many varieties and colors of tea trees, ranking first in the country. Anxi Tieguanyin tea can produce four times a year, including spring tea, summer tea, summer tea and autumn tea. The quality of spring tea is the best. The production process of Tieguanyin is basically the same as that of general oolong tea, except that it has more shaking times and shorter cooling time. Generally, it is dried before the evening, shaken all night, fermented the next morning, and then roasted for a day and night. Its production process is divided into nine procedures: drying in the sun, shaking, cooling, deactivating enzyme, cutting and kneading, primary baking, kneading, secondary baking and drying. Anxi Tieguanyin tea with excellent quality is fat and tight, as heavy as iron, with obvious green hibiscus sand, bright green background and red spots, high sweetness, sweet, mellow and fresh, unique taste and sweet aftertaste, and it still lingers after being brewed for 7 times; The soup is golden in color, with thick and soft leaves, even brightness, red spots and red edges on the leaves.

5. Yueyang Junshan Silver Needle is one of the famous yellow teas in China. Junshan tea has been dried since the Tang Dynasty and incorporated into tribute tea in the Qing Dynasty. Junshan is an island in Dongting Lake, Yueyang County, Hunan Province. In Qing Dynasty, Junshan tea was divided into "pointed tea" and "velvet tea". "Sword tea" is like a tea sword with white hair, so it is called tribute tea, so it is called "Gong Jian". Junshan Yinzhen tea has high aroma, mellow and sweet taste, high yellow soup color, strong buds, even strips and pale yellow velvet. After brewing, the buds rise vertically to the surface of the water in the soup, slowly sink, then rise and sink again, three times and three times, which is full of fun. Junshan Yinzhen tea was mined in Tomb-Sweeping Day three or four days ago. It is made from the first round buds of spring tea, and the buds with a length of 25 ~ 30 mm should be selected. After selection, silver needles are made of robust buds with the same size. The production process is divided into eight processes: enzyme fixation, spreading and cooling, primary drying, secondary spreading and cooling, primary packaging, secondary drying, secondary packaging and baking.

6. Pu 'er tea Pu 'er tea is a new kind of tea cultivated on the basis of Yunnan Daye tea. Pu 'er tea, also known as Dianqing tea, originated in Pu 'er County, hence its name, with a history of 1700 years. It is named after processing tea from 1 1 counties such as Youle, Deng Ping and Yibang in Pu 'er County. Tea trees are classified into tree types or large tea trees, and the bud leaves are extremely fat and dense, with good tenderness and excellent quality. The production method is a method for making secondary fermented green tea, which includes eight procedures: enzyme fixation, primary rolling, primary fermentation, secondary rolling, secondary fermentation, primary drying, secondary rolling and drying. In ancient times, Pu 'er tea was used as medicine. Its quality characteristics are: high, sharp and lasting aroma, with the unique aroma of Yunnan Daye tea, strong and exciting taste; Bubble-resistant, still fragrant after brewing for five or six times. The soup is orange, with strong buds and thick leaves. The leaves are reddish, between yellow and green, with thick cords and thick white hair. Pu 'er tea is divided into bulk tea and bulk tea.

7, Jiujiang Lushan Cloud One of the famous green teas in China. According to reports, tea planting in Lushan began in the Jin Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Lushan tea was listed as "tribute tea". Lushan Wu Yun tea is green in color, fragrant as blue, thick, mellow, fresh and tender. Lushan Wuyun tea not only has an ideal growth environment and excellent tea varieties, but also has exquisite harvesting techniques. After that, it was collected back to the camellia oleifera forest. Spread it thinly in a cool and ventilated place to keep the fresh leaves pure. Then, after nine processes of fixing, shaking and twisting, the finished product is made.

8.xinyangmaojian tea

Mount Cheyunshan, Jiyunshan, Tianyunshan, Wuyunshan, Leizhenshan, Heilongtan, Bailongtan and other peaks in Xinyang, Henan Province, the Tianwuta Peak in Che Yun is the most important. Renyun: "There is water in the middle of the stone river, and there is tea above the car cloud." The finished rope is thin, round, tight and straight, with a bluish green color and white hair exposed; The soup is green and bright, with fresh aroma and fresh and mellow taste; Buds at the bottom of leaves are thick, light green and even.

Identification method: produced in Cheyunshan, Xinyang, Henan. Its shape is compact, thin, round, smooth and straight, with silvery green and dark green, its internal aroma is fresh, and its leaf bottom is light green and even, showing black. Generally, it is a bud with one leaf or a bud with two leaves, but it is curly and yellow.

9. Qi Hong, Qimen, Anhui Among the black teas that are popular all over the world, Qi Hong is unique, enduring for a hundred years, and is famous for its high fragrance. Qi Hong, the abbreviation of Qimen black tea, is a treasure in Kung Fu black tea. Qihong has superior production conditions, such as good weather, geographical location, hardworking people, good planting and unique advantages. Therefore, most of the Qimen area is based on tea, which has been unbeaten for thousands of years. Qi Kung Fu tea has always maintained a high reputation, and its fragrance has always been there. Qi Hongxiang is famous for its high fragrance and has a unique fresh and lasting fragrance. Tea teachers at home and abroad call it sugar fragrance or apple fragrance, which contains orchid fragrance, lofty and long, unique, and the international market calls it [Qimenxiang].

10, Luan melon slices

Lu 'an Guapian is a famous green tea, and it is also the only product fried with a single tender leaf in famous tea. It is produced in Dabie Mountain tea area in western Anhui, among which the three counties of Lu 'an, Jinzhai and Huoshan are the best. The finished tea is melon-seed-shaped, hence the name "Lu 'an Guapian", with green color, high aroma, sweet taste and resistance to brewing. It originated from Yun Qi Mountain in Jinzhai County, and Yun Qi Mountain produces the best quality melon slice tea, so it is also called "Yun Qi melon slice". When making tea, the fog is transpiration and the aroma is overflowing, so it is also called "Qishan Yungua slice".

Among the melons in Yun Qi, the melon produced in Bat Cave in Yun Qi Mountain is the best among famous melons. Because there are thousands of bats around the bat cave all the year round, the feces discharged are rich in phosphorus, which is beneficial to the growth of tea trees, so the melons here are the sweetest and most delicious. However, due to the limitation of production, many tea drinkers "only know their names, but don't know their appearance". The finished product of Lu 'an melon slices has a melon-shaped leaf edge turned back, which is quite different from other green teas. The brewed soup is green and bright, rich in aroma, sweet and mellow in taste, and has the effects of clearing the heart, improving eyesight, refreshing the brain, inducing resuscitation and expelling wind. Such excellent quality is due to the unique natural conditions and the exquisite processing technology. Generally, the picking time of melon slices is between Grain Rain and Changchun, about half a month later than other high-grade teas. When climbing the leaves, you should climb down the tea buds from the first leaf to the third and fourth leaves and the broken tip one by one. The first leaf is made into a hanging leaf, the second leaf into a melon leaf, the third or fourth leaf into a plum leaf, and the bud into a silver needle, and stir-fry by climbing. Stir-fried slices are baked after the pan, only 2-3 slices at a time. Slow down first, then slow down, until the leaves frost and the color is green and even, and then seal them while they are hot. As Mei said in Ming Fu in the Song Dynasty, "At this time, women waste silkworms and men waste farmers, so we can't rest at night and stop at day". It has good color, fragrance and taste, and is a treasure in melon tea.

A grand view of drinking tea abroad

Residents in more than 0/00 countries and regions all over the world love tea. In some places, drinking tea has been promoted to an artistic enjoyment. Different countries drink tea in the same way, each with its own advantages.

Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan residents love to drink strong tea, which is bitter and astringent, but they enjoy it. The country's black tea sells well all over the world. There is a big tea shop in Colombo, the capital, which has a tea tasting department. Experts taste it with their tongues and then check the grade and price.

Britain: People from all walks of life in Britain love to drink. Tea can almost be called the national drink of Britain. He likes fresh strong tea, with one or two lumps of sugar and a little cold milk.

Thailand: Thais like to add ice to their tea, which suddenly cools down and even freezes. This is iced tea. In Thailand, local tea drinkers don't drink hot tea. It is usually foreign guests who want to drink hot tea.

Mongolia: Mongols like to eat brick tea. They pounded the brick tea into powder with a wooden mortar, boiled it in a pot with water, and then added some milk and goat's milk.

New Zealand: New Zealanders regard drinking tea as one of the greatest enjoyment in life. Many institutions, schools, factories and mines have specially set up tea time. There are many tea shops and teahouses in towns and villages.

Mali: Malians like to drink tea after meals. They put tea and water in a teapot and stew them on a clay stove. After the tea is boiled, add sugar and pour a cup for everyone. Their tea-making methods are different: when they get up every day, they boil water in an iron pot and add tea leaves; Let it cook until the bacon cooked at the same time is cooked, and then drink tea while eating meat.

Canada: Canadians make tea in a special way. First, they heat a clay pot, put a teaspoon of tea, then pour boiling water on it, soak it for seven or eight minutes, and then pour the tea into another hot pot to drink. Usually add cheese and sugar.

Russia: Russians often add a slice of lemon to each cup of tea, and also use fruit pulp instead of lemon. In winter, sweet wine is sometimes added to prevent colds.

Egypt: Sweet tea in Egypt. Egyptians usually serve a cup of hot tea with a lot of sugar. Only two or three cups of this sweet tea will make you feel sticky in your mouth and you don't even want to eat rice.

North Africa: mint tea in North Africa. North Africans like to drink tea with fresh mint leaves and some rock sugar in green tea flowers, which tastes cool and delicious. It is polite for a guest to finish three cups of tea given by his host.

South America: Paraguay tea in South America. In many countries in South America, people make tea with the leaves of local madai trees, which is both refreshing and beneficial. They drank the water in the teacup slowly through straws.