There are many brands of Hunan dark tea, Yiqingyuan and Baishaxi are very good

1. Yiqingyuan

Hunan Yiqingyuan Tea Industry Co., Ltd. The company integrates tea scientific research, tea garden base construction, tea production, processing, sales, and tea culture dissemination. It is one of the top 100 large-scale agricultural product circulation enterprises in the country recognized by the Ministry of Commerce, and one of the top 100 demonstration enterprises for new rural construction in the country recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture. It is one of the top 100 enterprises in China's tea industry recognized by the China Tea Circulation Association and a leading agricultural industrialization enterprise in Hunan Province recognized by the Hunan Provincial People's Government.

Yiqingyuan is the first recognized tea brand in Hunan and the first brand in the tea industry in Hunan. It has great influence and appeal in the national tea industry.

Yiqingyuan has 125,000 acres of high-quality tea gardens, including more than 30,000 acres of high-standard organic tea gardens, and 11 modern tea primary and finishing plants. It is a company that uses technology and innovation to adhere to the path of industrialization. "China's famous tea brand enterprise"; it is a comprehensive tea enterprise integrating tea scientific research, tea garden base construction, tea production, processing and sales, and tea culture dissemination. It now has three wholly-owned subsidiaries: Anhua Yiqingyuan Tea Industry Co., Ltd., Hunan Yiqingyuan Changchun Tea Industry Co., Ltd., Hunan Yiqingyuan Organic Tea Planting Co., Ltd.

Yiqingyuan adheres to the innovative three-dimensional marketing model of "chain monopoly, e-commerce, and export trade". Its tea is exported to Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia, Russia, Hong Kong and Macao, China and other countries and regions.

Yiqingyuan is a food company that has passed ISO19001:2000 certification and HACCP certification. From fresh leaves to finished products, the entire process is recorded, and every process is traceable.

Yiqingyuan has the country’s leading food-grade tea refining production line, using microwave fixing, drying, and sterilization equipment, and a small packaging production line with “automatic weighing, automatic sealing, and continuous transportation” for packaging. , "Cleanliness, safety and hygiene" are the basic characteristics of Yiqingyuan tea production, processing and packaging process.

In terms of transportation and storage, Yiqingyuan has established a cold chain system to ensure the continuous preservation of tea leaves in all aspects from fresh leaf picking, preservation, transportation to sales. In the preservation of tea, a "high-end famous green tea composite storage and preservation warehouse" is used. It can flexibly adjust the temperature, humidity, oxygen content, etc. in the cold storage according to the quality needs of various types of tea, thus maintaining the freshness and activity of the tea. This allows the nutrients and active ingredients of wild tea to be well preserved. At the same time, the sensory quality of wild tea, such as appearance, aroma, soup color, taste, leaf bottom color, etc., is significantly higher than that of conventionally stored famous green tea. "Freshness and activity" are the basic characteristics of Yiqingyuan green tea tea transportation and storage.

2. Baishaxi

Hunan Baishaxi Tea Factory Co., Ltd., formerly known as Hunan Baishaxi Tea Factory (state-owned), was inherited in 1939. The Hunan Provincial Brick Tea Factory was established by Mr. Peng Xianze, a bachelor of agriculture who studied at Kyushu University in Japan, and Mr. Meng Qi, appointed by the Hunan Provincial Department of Construction as deputy director of the Tea Management Office. It is the birthplace of pressed tea and has a long history of seventy years.

Baishaxi "Black Brick Tea" uses black tea as raw material, has a dark color, and the finished product is shaped like bricks, so it is named black brick tea. Now Hunan Baishaxi Tea Factory is one of the manufacturers. Its raw materials are selected from high-quality black tea produced in Anhua. In 1939, the first brick of black tea was produced at Anhua Dehe Qingji Tea House. In the early 1970s, the Baishaxi Tea Factory reformed the previously labor-intensive and time-consuming and complicated process. OK, one-time pressing and molding. During production, the raw materials are first sieved and shaped, air-sorted and purified, and blended in proportion; during machine pressing, they are first steamed and sterilized by high temperature, then high-pressure shaping, inspection and trimming, slow drying, and packaging into finished brick tea.

Each piece weighs 2 kilograms and is in the shape of a rectangular brick, 35 centimeters long, 18.5 centimeters wide and 3.5 centimeters thick. The brick surface is flat and smooth with sharp edges and corners; the tea has a pure aroma, the soup is yellow-red and slightly brown, and the taste is rich and mellow. This product is a semi-fermented tea, which removes the grassy smell from the fresh leaves and makes the tea leaves firm and firm, making them less susceptible to moisture and mildew. It will not lose its flavor even after being stored for several years, and the older it gets, the better it gets. It is suitable for cooking and drinking. Dairy products and Drink with sugar.

Anhua County, Hunan Province has a long history of producing dark tea. As early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Household Affairs officially designated it as the "official tea" for transportation and marketing in the northwest region. Tea merchants in the region went to the tea horses set up by the imperial court in various places to receive "tea citations" in gold (currency) (according to the regulations of the tea making class in the Ming Dynasty: 5,000 jins for the upper citation, 4,000 jins for the middle citation, and three jins for the lower citation). Thousands of kilograms), went to Anhua to purchase large quantities of black tea bricks, and shipped them to the northwest region for tea trading horses (according to: in the 22nd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the tea trading horses were divided into upper, middle and lower grades: each top-grade horse was 120 (70 catties per medium-grade horse, 50 catties per low-grade horse). Most of them are shipped to Lanzhou for resale in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Ningxia and Tibetan minority areas. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, nine out of ten "border teas" in the northwest region were supplied by Anhua dark tea, and most of them were pressed into tea bricks in Jingyang, Shaanxi. In 1939, the Hunan Provincial Tea Management Office set up a factory in Anhua County to mass-produce black brick tea. The products were divided into four levels: "heaven, earth, people, and harmony", collectively referred to as "black tea bricks". In 1947, Anhua Tea Company set up a factory in Jiangnan Town. The tea bricks were printed with the character "eight" on them and were called "eight-character tea bricks". The supply exceeded demand. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the China Tea Company's Anhua Brick Tea Factory (the predecessor of Hunan Yiyang Tea Factory) actively expanded production. The product was renamed "Black Brick Tea" and was mainly sold to ethnic minority areas in northwest China.

Brick tea is originally produced by Dehe Qingji Tea House in Anhua and began production around 1939. Because the brick surface is stamped with the words "Hunan Province Brick Tea Factory Pressed", it is also called "Eight-Character Brick". Because the embossed characters are used on the brick surface, the Lanzhou market calls the black bricks "Guzi Famous Brand Anhua Black Bricks". The current annual output is about 5,000 tons, mainly sold to Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions, with Lanzhou as the distribution center.