It’s okay to give tea as a gift

Nowadays, drinking tea can provide health, beauty and health.

However, it still depends on the recipient of the gift. If it is for elders, leaders, or parents, tea is very suitable. If it is for children, children, or the current post-90s generation, tea is not suitable. .

Recommended several teas suitable for gifting elders, leaders, and parents:

1. West Lake Longjing: one of the top ten famous teas in China. Tea has "four unique qualities": green color, fragrant aroma, sweet taste, and beautiful shape. The special West Lake Longjing tea is flat, smooth and straight, with a bright green color, a fresh and clear aroma, a fresh and sweet taste, and the bottom of the leaves are delicate and blooming. The appearance is flat and smooth, the seedlings are sharp, the buds are longer than the leaves, the color is light green, and the body surface is hairless; the soup color is light green (yellow) and bright; the aroma is fresh or tender chestnut, but some teas have a high fire aroma; the taste is refreshing or mellow; the bottom of the leaves is light green , still complete.

2. Firewood-fired Tieguanyin: Firewood-fired Tieguanyin uses traditional firewood-burning techniques, that is, using red bricks for cooking, iron tripod frying, and firewood as fuel. It is purely handmade and has a unique aroma. Tieguanyin, with its rhyme and nutritional value, is a time-honored tea product that integrates traditional techniques and has the most local characteristics. Of course, it is also a special tea that tourists from all over the world cannot miss when traveling to Xiamen, the sea garden.

3. Biluochun: One of the top ten famous teas in China, it is a green tea. The overall shape is of tightly knotted ropes, curled like a snail, with white hair exposed, silvery green, and tender leaf buds. After brewing, the tea flavor slowly spreads, flying up and down. The tea is silvery green, with a refreshing fragrance. The taste is cool, sweet, and refreshing. Shengjin was listed as a tribute as early as the late Tang and early Song Dynasty. Anyone who has tasted Biluochun will be dazzled by its tender green, soft leaves, elegant fragrance, and fresh and refreshing flavor. Biluochun, named after its tea, is green in color and shaped like a spiral. It is produced in early spring.

4. Huangshan Maofeng: one of the famous teas in Chinese history, Hui tea, which belongs to green tea. Produced in Huangshan, Anhui Province. Every year during the Grain Rain period during the Qingming Festival, the tender buds that have just begun to show are selected and stir-fried by hand. The tea has a slightly curly shape, resembling a bird's tongue, green with yellowish tints, silver hairs exposed, and golden fish leaves (commonly known as gold flakes). When brewed in a cup, the mist forms on the top. The soup is clear and slightly yellow in color, with vibrant yellow-green leaves at the bottom. The taste is mellow, the aroma is like orchid, and the flavor is profound. Because the newly made tea leaves are covered with white hair and have sharp buds and awns, and the fresh leaves were collected from the peak of Huangshan Mountain, the tea was named Huangshan Maofeng.

5. Dahongpao: Produced in Wuyiyan, Fujian, with excellent quality. In addition, there is the leguminous plant with the same name as Dahongpao, "Sapilla saponaria"; orange varieties that are mainly grown in Yuhang, Zhejiang and other places; traditional Peking Opera repertoire; trademarks with the same name, such as the famous brand pepper of Dongxiang County, Gansu Province; virtual characters of Pili puppet opera, etc. The shape is even, the ropes are tight and strong, slightly twisted, and the color is oily and precious. Old tea is grayish brown in color. If the strips are incomplete and there are too many pieces of broken tea, then it’s bad. In addition, the bottom of the tea leaves can also be used as a reference for the quality of the tea. It should be soft, bright and even, with obvious red edges on the bottom of the leaves.

6. Herbal tea (this is mainly for ladies): Herbal tea was first introduced from Europe, so herbal tea does not actually contain "tea" ingredients. To be precise, herbal tea refers to an herbal drink that produces an aromatic taste by decoction or brewing the roots, stems, leaves, flowers or bark of the plant. Herbal tea has a wide variety of varieties, rich taste, beautiful shape, bright color, and does not contain caffeine and sugar. It is formulated using scientific pure natural processing technology to maintain the unique biological activity of flowers and grasslands and has original ecological quality.