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Yongchun Bergamot Tea: The finished product has tight, fat and curly ropes, a sandy green and black color, a rich and clear aroma, a mellow and sweet taste, a bright orange color and a unique fruity aroma. Local people often make salt tea and pomelo tea to treat dysentery, heat stroke, hypertension and other diseases.

Yongchun Bergamot Tea is also known as Citron Seed and Snow Pear. It is also called "Golden Buddha's Hand" because it looks like a Buddha's hand and is more precious than gold. It is mainly produced in Yongchun Bergamot, Suzhou, Yongchun County, Fujian. Townships such as Keng, Yudou and Guiyang are located in high mountains with an altitude of 600 meters to 900 meters. Made from the tops of the bergamot variety tea tree, it is a famous Fujian oolong tea with a unique flavor. There are two varieties of bergamot tea tree: red bud bergamot and green bud bergamot (differentiated by the color of spring buds), with red buds being the better. The fresh leaves are as big as a palm, oval, with thick mesophyll. They germinate in late March and are mined in mid-April. They are picked in four seasons, with spring tea accounting for 40%. Characteristics of the finished bergamot tea: the tea sticks are tight, fat, and curly, with a sandy green and black color, a sharp aroma, a sweet taste, and resistance to brewing. The soup is orange and clear. When brewing, the fragrance is fragrant and elegant, just like the lingering fragrance emitted by a few bergamots, incense sticks and other fine fruits placed in the house.

Characteristics

The Yongchun Bergamot tea tree is a large-leaf shrub. It is named "bergamot" because of its spreading growth and leaf shape that resembles bergamot. Yongchun bergamot is divided into two types: red bud bergamot and green bud bergamot. Among them, red bud bergamot is the best. The tea tree has a tall crown, fresh leaves as big as the palm of a hand, oval in shape, with blunt tips, curved main veins, twisted and uneven leaf surfaces, thick mesophyll, soft texture, yellow-green and shiny leaves, and sparsely serrated leaf edges.

Efficacy

After testing, the extract of Bergamot tea was 46%, tannin 21%, crude protein 25%, tea content 2.4%, flavonoid Yongchun Bergamot substance 12mg /g, zinc 57μg/g, of which zinc and flavonoids have the highest content among all oolong teas. The flavonoids in tea have the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, softening blood vessels, etc. Zinc can promote the growth and development of children and the health of adults, and delay aging. In 2003, the Fujian Provincial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine has studied and proved that Yongchun Bergamot Tea has significant therapeutic effects on colitis; and is also studying to prove that Yongchun Bergamot Tea has health effects such as softening cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids. Regular drinking of Bergamot Tea can help you lose weight. , quenches thirst and eliminates food, removes phlegm, diuretic, improves eyesight and improves thinking, removes fire and relieves greasiness.

Place of Origin

Yongchun County, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, is known as "a thousand purple and red flowers that never fade, warm winters and cool summers all the way to spring". Yongchun County has a long history of tea production and existing tea gardens With an area of ??68,000 acres, an annual output of 3,935 tons and an annual export of more than 1,600 tons, it is one of the three largest oolong tea export base counties in the country. The abundant Yongchun Bergamot, Narcissus, and Tieguanyin are all the best oolong teas, especially the Yongchun Bergamot.

It is a famous Chinese tea with unique local characteristics. Yongchun bergamot tea is also known as citron and snow pear. It is also called "golden bergamot" because it resembles a bergamot and is precious and precious. It is mainly produced in high mountains with an altitude of 600 meters to 900 meters in towns such as Sukeng and Yudou in Yongchun County, Fujian. Made from the tops of the Buddha's hand variety tea tree, it is a famous Fujian oolong tea with a unique flavor. Characteristics of the finished product of bergamot tea: the tea sticks are tight, fat and curly, the color is sandy green and black, the aroma is strong and sharp, the taste is sweet and thick, resistant to brewing, and the soup color is orange and clear. When brewing, the fragrance is fragrant and elegant, just like the lingering fragrance emitted by a few bergamots, incense sticks and other fine fruits placed in the house. When making oolong tea, the tea sticks are tightly knotted, fat, and curled into a trunk shape. The color is sandy green and black, the aroma is strong, the soup is orange-yellow and clear, and the bottom of the leaves is bright yellow-green, which is unique; when the black tea is made, the soup is red and thick, and the bottom of the leaves is Bright red, very good quality. In 1996, Bergamot was designated as an improved tea tree variety in Fujian Province. At present, there is less cultivation in Anxi County, and the main production area is Yongchun County. There are a small amount of introductions in central, eastern and northern Fujian. It is located at the southern foot of Daiyun Mountain, with undulating peaks and rich mountain resources. It is also the transition zone between the south subtropical zone and the north subtropical zone. It belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with abundant rainfall throughout the year and a large temperature difference between day and night. At the same time, most of the tea gardens in the county are planted in Mountainous and mid-level areas correspond to the tea proverb “High mountains produce good tea.”

Tea gardens are distributed in 22 towns and villages in the county. There are more than 10,000 farmers engaged in tea production and nearly 30,000 employees. The abundant Yongchun Bergamot, Narcissus and Tieguanyin are all top-notch oolong teas. Since 1985, it has been visited 43 times in a row. Won prizes or first place in national and provincial competitions; was rated as a famous brand product at the China International Agricultural Expo. Among them, Yongchun Bergamot, also known as Xiangrong and Sydney, is one of the rare and unique oolong tea varieties.

Honor

Yongchun Buddha's Hand has long been famous among overseas Chinese in Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and has won many awards.

It was rated as high-quality agricultural product by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1986 and 1989; it won the gold medal at the first China Food Expo in 1988, and was recognized as the gold medal at the second and third China Agricultural Expo in 1995 and 1997. In 1999, it won the The Gold Award for International Famous Tea at the Second China International Tea Expo and Trade Fair was recognized as a famous tea in Fujian Province. In 2007, it won the title of "China's No. 1 Tea for the Olympic Games" and was given to foreign guests as one of the national gifts! There are also many private tea companies that are doing well. For example, the Dasu Shen brand Buddha's hand tea produced by Fujian Yongchun Yipin Bergamot Tea Co., Ltd. has been twice designated as the designated tea for the Great Hall of the People.

Attributes

Bergamot is a precious fruit with an attractive fragrance in the genus Citrus. The tea is named after Bergamot, not only because its leaves are very similar to those of Bergamot, but also Because the dried hair tea produced emits a unique fragrance like bergamot after brewing. Yongchun Bergamot began in the Northern Song Dynasty. According to legend, a monk from Qihuyan Temple in Anxi County grafted tea tree branches onto bergamot and carefully cultivated it. His method was taught to his juniors at Shifengyan Temple in Yongchun County, and nearby tea farmers have been competing to introduce it to this day. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was Fengpu Tea House in Taodong, the county seat, and a large tea garden was opened on Baidu Mountain to plant Bergamot. Li Shece, a tribute to Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem praising Buddha's hand tea in "Shifeng Tea Poems": "Drinking tea, I dare not stay in the clouds, and I will suddenly envy the immortals when I taste it." Mr. Zhou Gucheng, former vice committee member of the National People's Congress, also wrote a gift for it. "Yongchun Famous Tea" banner.