Taiping Houkui belongs to the green tea series and is mainly produced in Houkeng, Hougang, Yanjia and other places in Sanmen Village, Xinming Township, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. Its production process is picking, picking and spreading to dry. Through the processes of greening, greening, tipping, typesetting, baking and drying, the Taiping Houkui dry tea is flat and strong, with two leaves holding one bud, bright color, and refreshing taste.
Taiping Houkui is closely related to "monkey". Its appearance is flat and straight, tall and strong. Its notable feature is its larger size, one bud and two leaves, and the leaves are 5 to 7 cm long.
The whole body is covered with white hair, but it is not exposed; the color is green and smooth; the veins are green and slightly red, commonly known as "red silk thread". crimping".
Taiping Houkui is a roasted green tea, which is divided into three categories: Houkui, Kuijian and Jian tea. Houkui is the best. After tasting it, you can experience the "high fragrance of the first brew and the taste of the second brew." The artistic conception is "strong, the fragrance is still there after three or four bubbles", and has a unique "monkey charm".
How to identify Taiping Houkui:
1. Shape
The main thing is to look at the strip shape of the dry tea. The strip shape of Houkui is a flat tea.
The tea sticks are extremely flat and thin, and the flat tea formed by laminating two or more tea sticks is not the authentic Taiping Houkui tea.
2. Tenderness
It mainly depends on the tenderness of the raw material (leaf quality) of Houkui.
Houkui tea with good tenderness generally gives people the impression that the flat tea stick has a full body and bones, the leaves are thick and solid, not shriveled and thin, and it feels heavy when you hold it in the hand and throw it into the plate. There was a clanging sound.