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Longjing green tea

Published Date:Mar.19.2022    Source:    Author:Geographical indication industry network  Viewed:941


Product features

Longjing tea is famous for its green color, beautiful shape, rich fragrance and mellow taste. Its unique "light and far" and "fragrant and clear" peerless look and extraordinary quality are unique among many teas, ranking first among China's top ten famous teas.

Longjing tea picking has three characteristics: early in the morning, second tender and third diligent. Tea farmers often say, "tea is an hour grass. Picking three days early is a treasure, and picking three days late becomes grass." Longjing tea is also famous for its delicate picking. The tenderness and evenness of fresh leaves form the basis of the quality of Longjing tea. Diligence refers to picking in large and small batches, and picking in about 30 batches throughout the year.

There are ten traditional ways to stir fry Longjing: throwing, shaking, building, fanning, shaking, throwing, grasping, pushing, buckling and grinding. Different quality tea has different ways to stir fry. Due to the differences in the ecological conditions of the producing area and the frying technology, the West Lake Longjing is divided into five categories: "Lion", "dragon", "cloud", "tiger" and "plum".

Super Longjing tea is flat, smooth and straight, its color is light green and glossy, its aroma is fresh and clear, its taste is fresh and sweet, and its leaf bottom is tender and blooming. [1]

The super West Lake Longjing and Zhejiang Longjing in spring tea are flat and smooth in appearance, with sharp seedling tips, buds longer than leaves, light green in color and no fur on the body surface; The soup is light green (yellow) and bright; Fragrance or tender chestnut fragrance, but some tea has high fire fragrance; Fresh or mellow taste; The leaf bottom is green and intact. With the decline of other levels, the appearance and color of Longjing tea from light green to green and dark green, the tea body from small to large, and the tea strips from smooth to rough; The fragrance changes from tender and refreshing to thick and thick, and grade IV tea begins to be crude; The leaf bottom changes from tender buds to opposite intercalated leaves, and the color changes from light yellow to green to yellowish brown. Longjing tea in summer and autumn is dark green or dark green in color. It has a large body, no fur on the body surface, yellow and bright soup color, light fragrance but rough, strong and slightly astringent taste, and yellow and bright leaf bottom. The overall quality is much worse than that of spring tea at the same level. At present, Longjing tea is fully fried by multi-functional machine, and it is also fried by machine and manual assistance. The shape of machine-made Longjing tea is mostly stick shaped flat, incomplete and dark green in color. Under the same conditions, the overall quality is worse than that of manual frying.

Zhejiang Longjing tea is divided into super grade and grade 1 to 5, with a total of 6 grades.

Population species

Group species is the earliest variety of Longjing tea and the best tea quality at present. Now people often say that West Lake Longjing tea on Shifeng mountain is this variety. Generally speaking, the picking time of group species is later than that of other species, about Qingming. The planting area of this variety is limited to the West Lake production area, and the area is very limited.

Longjing 43

Longjing 43 is a clonal national variety selected from Longjing population by Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Shrub type, middle leaf type, tree posture semi open, dense branches. It is an extremely early species. In Qingdao, the period of one bud and one leaf is in the middle and late April. The ability of bud cultivation is very strong, the germination is neat, the density is large, and the buds and leaves are short, strong and less hairy. The dry sample of one bud and two leaves of spring tea contains about 3.7% of amino acids, 18.5% of tea polyphenols, 12.1% of total catechins and 4.0% of caffeine. It is suitable for making flat famous green tea such as sparrow tongue, Longjing and jade leaf.

Features: the flavor and concentration are appropriate, and the sweet recovery is lasting. Longjing 43 is generally suitable for frying into a green version, and the color of the soup is clear, green and bright.

Pingyang extra early

Middle leaf type, shrub type, very early species. The mining period of famous tea in Qingdao is in the middle and late April, with high germination density and strong bud cultivation ability. Features: high aroma is its remarkable feature. The tea picked in the same period is better in appearance, but the taste is slightly light.

Zhenong 117

The high-quality, high-yield and early-growing clonal varieties with both red and green bred by Zhejiang University passed the provincial appraisal of Zhejiang Province in 2002 and were listed as the key varieties to be popularized in Zhejiang Province. Strong tenderness, suitable for flat and needle shaped tea, strong green buds. The time of germination is early, and the mining time of famous tea in Qingdao is in the first ten days of May. It has strong sprouting ability and strong stress resistance. In particular, the cold resistance is prominent, and the green tea has high and lasting fragrance and strong, fresh and refreshing taste.

Zhenong 139

Zhejiang University bred high-quality, high-yield and early-growing clonal tea varieties. In 2002, they passed the provincial appraisal of Zhejiang Province and were listed as the key varieties to be popularized in Zhejiang Province. The mining period of spring tea is about 7 days earlier than that of Fuding Dabai tea. It is suitable for making famous and high-quality green tea. It has high and lasting aroma, fresh and mellow taste, sweet recovery and storage resistance. The unit yield is 27% higher than that of Fuding Dabai tea. Green leaves and high yield. The advantages are good tenderness retention and strong cold resistance, while the disadvantages are weak disease resistance.

Wuniuzao

This variety matures the fastest. Generally, it begins to germinate as soon as the beginning of spring, and can be picked in the first ten days of March of the Gregorian calendar. As the appearance of Wuniuzao is similar to that of West Lake Longjing, the output is also large.


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