Nanjing Yuhua Tea is a famous specialty in Nanjing, which won the Silver Award in China Food Expo. It is a classic tea in China and one of the top ten famous teas in China.

Nanjing Yuhua Tea is a treasure in green tea frying, and it is also one of the three needles in China. This is a high-quality needle-shaped spring tea. When the tea buds germinate to one bud and three leaves, they are mined about ten days before Qingming. Selecting only one bud and one leaf, picking tea buds with a length of 2-3cm, deactivating enzymes, kneading, shaping, drying and manually frying with ebony tar. Only 250 grams of tea can be fried in each pot.

Yuhua tea is famous for its green tea color, elegant aroma and mellow taste. Yuhua tea is washed with boiling water, and the water surface is white. After the tea leaves are soaked in water, the tea color is green and clear, and the aroma is quiet and quiet. Drink a cup, refreshing, fragrant, mellow taste, sweet aftertaste, good color, fragrance and taste. This is a first-class product.

Yuhua Tea was born in:

Yuhua tea has a long history of production. Tea was planted in Nanjing in the Tang Dynasty, which is not only recorded in Lu Yu's Tea Classic, but also evidenced by the legend that Lu Yu picked tea in qixia temple, Nanjing. There are still traces of modern tea kiosks in Houshan, qixia temple.

Lu Yu once described the story of Guangling Old Man Biography in Tea Classic. It is said that in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there was an old woman who sold a pot of tea along the street every morning, and everyone rushed to buy her "Yuhua Tea" soup to drink. Strangely, the old woman sells tea in the pot from morning till night.

The old woman gave all the money for selling tea to the poor, and the poor were very grateful to her. The news was known by the officials at that time, and the old woman was arrested and imprisoned. Early the next morning, the old woman disappeared.

Later, Yuhuatai area began to be covered by lush green tea gardens. Yuhua tea has good color, fragrance, taste and shape. The appearance is round and green, straight and firm, the peaks and seedlings are beautiful, the white hairs are like pine needles, the aroma is rich and elegant, the taste is fresh and mellow, the soup is green and clear, and the leaves are tender, smooth, even and bright.

By the Qing Dynasty, tea planting in Nanjing had spread to the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuhua Tea