Tieguanyin tea is a traditional famous tea of Han nationality, which belongs to the category of green tea, between green tea and black tea. So where is Tieguanyin's place of origin? Let's take a look at it together.
Where is Tieguanyin tea place of origin?
Tieguanyin tea place of origin is located in Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. Anxi County is not only the hometown of world famous tea, but also the birthplace of oolong tea, and the base county and city of oolong tea export in Fujian Province. Anxi has a long history of tea production.
what are the varieties of tieguanyin?
Tieguanyin finished products can be roughly divided into three types according to the fermentation degree and production technology: faint scent type, strong scent type and aged scent type.
1. Fragrant scent type:
The faint scent type has a light taste and a slightly sweet tongue tip, which tends to be made by modern technology, and currently occupies the largest amount in the market. The fragrant Tieguanyin is green in color, clear in soup, rich in fragrance, obvious in floral fragrance and mellow in taste. Because the new tea is cold, you should not drink too much, otherwise it will hurt your stomach and insomnia to a certain extent.
2. Luzhou-flavor:
Luzhou-flavor is mellow in taste, long in aroma, and relatively sweet. It is a product made by baking and processing tea fried by traditional techniques. Luzhou-flavor Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "fragrant, thick, mellow and sweet", with dark color, golden soup color, pure aroma and heavy taste. Compared with the fragrant type, Luzhou-flavor Tieguanyin is mild, and has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, invigorating spleen and warming stomach.
3. Aged-fragrant type:
Aged-fragrant type, also known as old tea or cooked tea, is made of Tieguanyin with strong aroma or fragrance after long-term storage and repeated reprocessing, and also belongs to semi-fermented tea. Chen Xiang Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "thick, mellow, moist and soft", which is characterized by dark color, rich soup, sweet and mellow, and fragrant agarwood. Its characteristics and taste are close to Pu 'er tea, black tea and black tea, and it has a heavy historical and cultural precipitation.
Award-winning honor of Tieguanyin
In June, 1982, it was awarded as "National Famous Tea" at the national famous tea appraisal meeting. Since then, the super Tieguanyin produced by Anxi Tea Factory has maintained the honor of national gold medal for more than 2 years.
in 1984, it was approved as a national fine tea tree.
In October, 1986, it won the Golden Gui Award of International Food Tourism Association in Paris, France, and was rated as one of the top ten famous teas in the world.
in March 1995, Anxi county was named as "the hometown of China oolong tea (Tieguanyin)" by the Ministry of Agriculture.
in 21, it was identified as "the first batch of national production base counties of pollution-free agricultural products (Tieguanyin)" by the Ministry of Agriculture, and was jointly identified as "National Horticultural Products (Tieguanyin) Export Demonstration Zone" by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
in 22, it was confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture as a "famous base of southern subtropical crops (oolong tea)".
In 24, Anxi Tieguanyin was listed as a "product of geographical origin protection" by the state.
In January, 26, the certification trademark of "Anxi Tieguanyin" was awarded the title of "China Well-known Trademark" by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, which is the first well-known trademark in China in China and one of the most favorite brands in China in the world.
In October 29, Anxi Tieguanyin won the first place in the "Top Ten Famous Tea of China World Expo".
In 21, Anxi Tieguanyin officially entered the World Expo and became the first brand of tea in the World Expo.