1385, in the eighteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Ding Xian went to Beijing to take the exam. When passing Wuyi Mountain, he suddenly fell ill and his abdominal pain was unbearable. He happened to meet a monk in Tianxin Yongle Temple, and the monk took Dahongpao tea to drink with him. The disease stopped. After winning the first prize, he came to thank the monk and took Dahongpao back to Beijing with a tin can. After the champion returned to Korea, it happened that the queen was ill and all the doctors failed, so he took out the pot of tea and presented it. The queen was healthy after drinking, and the emperor was overjoyed. He gave the champion a red robe and told him to go to Kowloon and put it on a tea tree to show his kindness. At the same time, he sent someone to take care of it, and all the tea leaves were stored and not allowed to hide. Since then, Wuyi Rock Tea Dahongpao has become the exclusive tribute tea of the royal family. Legend has it that every year, officials sent by the imperial court put on Dahongpao, took off their robes and hung them on tribute tea trees, so they were called Dahongpao. A more widespread saying is that when picking tea, you should burn incense to worship heaven, and then let the monkeys put on red vests and climb to the cliff above the tea trees to pick tea. Therefore, Guangdong people call this monkey-picking tea "horse-picking tea" (Guangdong people call monkeys "horse-picking tea"). It is precisely because of scarcity and difficulty in picking that this kind of tea is a precious treasure in the market.
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Wuyi rock tea is produced in Wuyi Mountain, a famous mountain in the southeast of Meijingjia in northern Fujian. Tea trees grow in cracks in rocks. Wuyi Rock Tea has the fragrance of green tea and the sweetness of black tea, which is the best in China Oolong Tea. Its founding date is recorded in the textbook Tea Making Law of Ming and Qing Dynasties compiled by agricultural colleges all over the country.
Dahongpao Tea (20 tablets): Wuyi Rock Tea has a long history. According to historical records, tea was planted in the Tang Dynasty and was used as a gift by the people. The Song Dynasty was listed as a royal tribute, and the Yuan Dynasty also set up a "Baking Bureau" and a "Imperial Tea Garden" in Wuyishan to collect tribute tea. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, oolong tea trees planted in Wuyishan were created, with a wide variety, including Dahongpao, Luohan, Baijiguan, Shuijinggui and so on. They were also named after the growing environment of tea trees, such as invisible paradise and golden key. Named after the shapes of tea trees, such as drunken begonia, drunken Dong Bin, scarab, phoenix fern, jade unicorn, a fragrant branch, etc. Named after the shape of tea, such as melon seeds, money, bamboo, golden wicker, willow, etc. Named after the early and late germination of tea trees, such as spring willow and spring; Named after tea flavor, such as cinnamon, stone frankincense, white musk, etc. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it began to be exported to Western Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. At that time, Europeans used to call it Wuyi tea, as the floorboard of China tea. Wuyi rock tea is famous at home and abroad, which is inseparable from the excellent natural environment. Wuyi Mountain is located at 27 35'-27 43' north latitude and117 55'-1'east longitude. The altitude of Fiona Fang is 120, with an average altitude of more than 650 meters. Surrounded by valleys, not connected with the outer mountains, it is composed of 36 peaks, 99 rocks and Jiuqu River, which is self-contained. Rock peaks stand tall and colorful, and the peaks are continuous. Looking eastward, Malik gallops and becomes a spectacle. The crystal clear Jiuqu River wanders among them, turning into Jiuqu 18 Bay. The mountain turns to the stream, which is really like "winding mountain turns, and the peak water holds the current". And along the stream bank, the reflections of the peaks are in the blue waves, and the mountains and rivers complement each other. It is really a fairyland on earth. The predecessor's title "Wuyishan Mountain has wonderful landscapes, 36 peaks winding, and nine streams flowing with clear clouds" summarizes the outline of Wuyishan Mountain. Famous mountains and rivers and scenic spots have cultivated the natural aura of rock tea.
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Quality characteristics of "blindly Zen tea"
Mr. Zhang Yansheng, a contemporary calligrapher, wrote an inscription for the rhyme of Dahongpao in Wuyishan: "The green leaves are angular, the red robe covers the body, the good fortune meets the good, and the heart is peaceful", which should be a refined summary of the quality characteristics of Dahongpao's "Zen tea blindly". Dahongpao is tightly knotted in shape, and its colors are green, brown and fresh. After brewing, the soup is bright orange, and the leaves are red and green. Typical leaves have the aesthetic feeling of green leaves and red edges. The most prominent feature of Dahongpao's quality is its rich fragrance with orchid fragrance, high and lasting fragrance and obvious "rock rhyme". Dahongpao is very resistant to foam, and it still smells after being soaked for seven or eight times. When drinking "Dahongpao" tea, you must drink it slowly with a small pot and a small cup of "congou", so that you can truly taste the charm of Zen tea on top of rock tea. Note: lively, sweet, clear and fragrant.
Taste dahongpao
Tasting should be observed from the aspects of appearance, soup color, aroma, taste, brewing times and leaf bottom. Among them, the focus is on aroma and taste. Aroma: The aroma is refreshing. After inhaling, take a deep breath and come out of your nose. If you can smell a faint fragrance, the fragrance is the best. Mature flavor (completely baked) tea is characterized by fruit and cream flavor. Fragrant (lightly roasted) tea is dominated by floral fragrance and Momoka. Taste: Sweet and smooth, bitter, astringent, hemp and sour. Tea has no texture, and the light one is inferior. Bitterness often determines the quality of rock tea. The brewing times are generally around eight bubbles, and it is better to have more than eight bubbles. Good tea has "seven bubbles and eight bubbles with fragrance, nine bubbles and ten bubbles with aftertaste." Statement. Appearance: the appearance and color of dry tea can also be used as a reference for quality identification. Usually the appearance is uniform, the rope is tight and strong, slightly twisted, and the color is oily and precious. Chen is a taupe color. Article is not complete, but there are many broken Chata. In addition, the leaf bottom of tea can also be used as a reference for the quality of tea. It should be soft, bright and uniform, and the red edge of the leaf bottom is obvious. High-quality tea should have: no obvious bitterness, texture (tea feels sticky and thick in the mouth), lubrication, sweetness and aftertaste (it is difficult for beginners to grasp this rock rhyme).
Unique color
Dahongpao is noble in color and rich in hue, with three colors, toad back and three red and seven blue.
Wuyishan "Dahongpao" gift box (2 pieces) "Three colors": refers to the characteristics of dry tea. Specifically, the head of dry tea is dark brown and the tail is light red. It can be said that "three colors" are the typical characteristics of Wuyi rock tea. "Toad back" is one of the characteristics of traditional tea baking and fire attack. Generally speaking, toad back rock tea is a traditional rock tea. After a long time of baking, some of them expand when heated, resulting in small bubbles on the surface of tea. Dry tea is hard to find, and it is easier to observe at the bottom of fried rice cakes. "Three reds and seven greens" refers to the degree of fermentation of tea. When observing the leaf bottom of rock tea, we can find that the leaves are red around, blue in the middle, and green with three dividends and seven cents, also called "green leaves and red edges".
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The climate is mild, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the annual average temperature is between 18 and 18.5 degrees. Abundant rainfall, the annual rainfall is about 2000 mm, there are quiet streams and springs between the peaks and valleys, and the mountains are foggy all the year round, with an average annual relative humidity of 80%.
Dahongpao Tea Area Environment (9 blocks). As Shen Han said in "Wang Xie Shi 'an Hui Wuyi Tea Poetry": "The fragrance contains the dew of the jade girl's hill, which moistens the bead curtain. "Most of the tea gardens are in the ravine, surrounded by mountains, with short sunshine and no wind disaster. Superior natural conditions gave birth to the unique charm of rock tea. The geology of Wuyishan is Cretaceous Wuyi layer, with banyan tree in the lower part and conglomerate, red sandstone, shale, tuff and volcanic conglomerate in the middle. The parent rock of tea garden soil is mostly composed of volcanic conglomerate, red sandstone and shale. " The Book of Tea says that the soil in Chashan is "rotten stone on the top, gravel soil on the middle and loess on the bottom". The soil of Wuyi tea garden is saprolite or gravelly soil. According to Xu Huobo's textual research on tea in Ming Dynasty, "Wuyishan is suitable for tea". Inscription of Dahongpao Mother Tree
Suitable soil has created the excellent endoplasm of rock tea. Clear water and green hills, steep peaks and deep valleys, deep mountains and Gao Quan, sandy soil and rotten, foggy and rainy, sunny and cloudy in the morning, Wuyi Rock Tea enjoys the Hui Ze of nature. It is dedicated to people with its unique "fragrant flower rock bone", which makes people in the same position lament. Wuyi rock tea can be divided into rock tea and continental tea. Rock tea in the mountains is the top grade; At the foot of the mountain, there is mainland tea, followed by mainland tea. As far as varieties are concerned, it includes Lu Xian Tea, Dong Bin Tea, Narcissus, Dahongpao, Wuyi Qizhong, Cinnamon, Celosia cristata and Oolong. , often named after the origin, ecology, shape or color and fragrance characteristics of tea trees. Wuyi rock tea belongs to semi-fermented tea with red leaves, and its characteristics are most succinctly summarized by Zhang Liangsaw in Qing Dynasty, namely "sweet, clear and fragrant" (see Notes on Returning to the Field). Its strips are solid and uniform, and the colors are green, brown and fresh. After brewing, the tea soup is dark orange, clear and gorgeous. The leaf bottom is soft and bright, the leaf margin is scarlet, and the leaf center is light green with yellow; Both the sweetness of black tea and the fragrance of green tea; Tea is warm but not cold, and it won't go bad for a long time. The fragrance will be clear and the taste will be mellow. Small pots and cups are often used when making drinks. Because they are rich in fragrance, the aftertaste still exists after brewing for five or six times. This kind of tea is most suitable for making congou tea, so it is very popular and has unique quality. /kloc-was introduced to Europe in the 0/8th century, and was loved by local groups. It was once known as the "medicine for all diseases".
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Health function
As a famous tea unique to China, it has been confirmed by modern scientific research at home and abroad that Dahongpao not only has health care functions such as refreshing the mind, relieving fatigue, promoting fluid production and diuresis, relieving heatstroke, sterilizing and diminishing inflammation, detoxicating and preventing diseases, promoting digestion and relieving boredom, and losing weight and bodybuilding. It is also outstanding in preventing cancer, reducing blood fat, resisting aging and other special effects: 1, eliminating active oxygen harmful to beauty and health; 2. Drinking 1 L Dahongpao every day can improve skin allergy; 3. Drinking Dahongpao can lose weight; 4. Anti-tumor and anti-aging effects. Caffeine and aromatic substances in Dahongpao are beneficial to eliminate lactic acid, uric acid (related to gout) and excessive salt. Eliminating fatigue Dahongpao can excite the nerve center, strengthen the heartbeat, promote sweating and diuresis, and then achieve the effect of eliminating fatigue; The effect of promoting fluid production and clearing away heat: drinking rock tea in summer, polyphenols, sugars, amino acids and pectin in tea can quench thirst and relieve summer heat; In addition, Dahongpao also has the functions of preventing caries, invigorating stomach and moistening intestines, helping digestion, lowering blood sugar and blood fat.
Lowering blood lipid
During the period of 1983, Fujian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine observed a group of patients with hypercholesterolemia. In the case of stopping all kinds of lipid-lowering drugs, they drink Dahongpao twice a day in the morning and evening. After 24 weeks in a row, the blood cholesterol content of patients decreased to varying degrees. Further animal experiments show that Dahongpao can prevent and alleviate atherosclerosis of aortic blood lipids. Drinking Dahongpao can also reduce blood viscosity, prevent erythrocyte aggregation, improve blood hypercoagulability, increase blood fluidity and improve microcirculation. This is of positive significance for Chinese medicine to prevent vascular diseases, intravascular thrombosis and blood stasis. In addition, in vitro thrombosis test also shows that Dahongpao has the effect of inhibiting thrombosis.
Anti-wrinkle
65438-0983 Anti-aging experiments conducted by Fujian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine showed that the lipid peroxidation in the liver of two groups of animals fed with Dahongpao and vitamin E respectively decreased significantly, indicating that Dahongpao and vitamin E had the same anti-aging effect. Human experiments also show that drinking Dahongpao can keep the content of vitamin C in blood at a high level and reduce the excretion of vitamin C in urine. The anti-aging effect of vitamin C has long been proved by research. Therefore, drinking Dahongpao can enhance the anti-aging ability of human body in many ways.
Other pharmacological effects
Excitement, diuresis, cardiotonic, spasmolysis, arteriosclerosis inhibition, antibacterial, bacteriostatic, weight loss, dental caries prevention and cancer cell inhibition.
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1, high-end tea: Wuyi tea is the tribute tea of emperors in history. Won the gold medal of China Oolong Tea and the first China International Tea Expo for many years. The State Council and the Ministry of Culture have officially published the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, and the production technology of Wuyi Rock Tea (Dahongpao) is among them. Wuyi Rock Tea (Dahongpao) is the only tea-making process in handicraft. Dahongpao is the king of tea and is known as the "national treasure". 2. Ecological tea: Wuyi Mountain has excellent natural conditions such as soil, climate and humidity, forming a unique climate. Coupled with the production process that was rated as "intangible cultural heritage", the grown Dahongpao was endowed with extraordinary talent, unique quality, rich aroma, sweet aftertaste and obvious "rock rhyme". Tea gardens are managed according to national green organic standards. 3. Brand tea: The brand status of Dahongpao is determined by historical accumulation, cultural background, excellent quality and other factors. In addition, with the introduction of Wuyishan tourist routes for many years, most people who come to Wuyishan have seen the Dahongpao in Kowloon, heard of the magical legend of Dahongpao, and its fame has spread all over the world. 4. Healthy tea: Wuyi rock tea has been the best drink for health care since ancient times. Legend has it that Shennong used it to treat seventy-two poisons, and it was named after treating intractable diseases such as county magistrate and scholar queen. According to scientific research, Wuyi rock tea is rich in trace elements such as potassium, zinc and selenium. And the mixture of oxalic acid, tannic acid and Sophora flavescens can be separated, which is of great benefit to human body. 5. Precious tea: At the 7th China Wuyishan Dahongpao Culture Festival and Dahongpao Boutique Auction held in Wuyishan, a world double heritage, 20 grams of Dahongpao fetched an amazing price of 208,000 yuan. Da Hong Pao
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Wuyi rock tea has a long history, and Dahongpao is the best in Wuyi rock tea. It is said that it had a name in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the name was 192 1 year.
[2] Shu Nan's travel notes mentioned several places in Wuyishan, such as Tianxinyan Jiulongke (that is, there is now a place with the words "Cliff Stone Carving Dahongpao", which was engraved in Tianxin Temple in 1927), Tianyou Rock and Julian Cave (also called Shuiqian Cave), but unfortunately these travel notes and investigations have not been explained. 194 1 year, it was mentioned in Lin Fuquan's "Production and Marketing of Wuyi Rock Tea" that there was a Dahongpao in Shile Pantuo in Matouyan, but the whole process of Dahongpao was recorded by three Dahongpao plants in Kowloon. During the period of 1958, when Chen Dehua was in Changle No.1 Middle School, Fujian Province, he saw three sets of Dahongpao painted by Chen Li, the school's art teacher, when he was transferred to Wuyishan to sketch. 1962, Chunzhong Tea Institute cut branches of Dahongpao from Wuyishan and brought them back to Hangzhou for cutting and planting, and three Dahongpao plants were also planted in Jiulongna. 1964 In the spring, when Xie and others from Fujian Tea Research Institute came to Wuyishan, they also went to Jiulong Caotang accompanied by them, cut off three branches of Dahongpao and took them back to Shekou, Fu 'an. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Chen Dehua presided over the excavation, sorting, breeding and promotion of Wuyi famous cluster, and made a village-by-village survey of Tianxin Brigade (accompanied by the team leader) in the rock tea producing area at that time, and learned a lot about state-owned farms and related predecessors and tea people. Among them, Juda Rock and Julian Cave (or Shuilian Cave) were not nominated as Dahongpao tea trees. Judging from the four famous tea trees in Wuyishan, Dahongpao, Shuijinggui, Baijiguan and Tieluohan have their own characteristics. Guihua tea tree in Shuijing grows along the road, and Baijiguan tea tree itself is unique, and its tender leaves are pale yellow for about 50 days. Iron arhats grow in ghost caves, with trees as high as 3.3 meters, while Dahongpao grows halfway up the cliff in Kowloon. It is said that in 1927, the monk of Tianxin Temple carved the word "Dahongpao" next to the tea tree. At that time, this tea tree was engraved with a name in Wuyishan. It is said that in order to get the original Dahongpao, a powerful person built a hut not far from Dahongpao tea tree and lived in it to take care of it. Not only books, not only books, but also facts. Many rumors can't prove that there are other Dahongpao besides several Dahongpao on the hillside in Kowloon. In fact, at present, Wuyi tea area has not heard of the existence of different varieties of Dahongpao. Judging from the quality verification, Dahongpao is worthy of being the king of tea. Fujian Tea Research Institute screened and identified the quality of many famous clusters in Wuyishan, and finally recommended Dahongpao. In recent years, the quality of newly harvested Dahongpao tea in Wuyi tea area mostly reflects the excellent germplasm characteristics of this tea, especially in the rainy weather during the spring tea in 2005. Most tea farmers who planted Dahongpao recognized its quality. One of the experts, the tea man who made Minnan oolong tea, marveled at the excellent quality of Dahongpao after the first collection.