Dahongpao is produced in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian.
Dahongpao tea is an oolong tea with excellent quality. Chinese special famous tea. Its appearance is tightly knotted, its color is green-brown and fresh, its soup color is bright orange-yellow after brewing, and its leaves are alternately red and green. The most outstanding quality is the fragrant orchid aroma, which is high and long-lasting, with obvious "rock charm".
Dahongpao is very resistant to brewing and still has a fragrant aroma after being brewed seven or eight times. To drink "Dahongpao" tea, you must follow the "Gongfu Tea" method of sipping carefully and slowly from a small pot and a small cup, in order to truly taste the Zen tea charm that is the best of rock tea. Pay attention to liveliness, sweetness, clearness and fragrance.
Dahongpao is rich in three beneficial ingredients: tea polyphenols, tea polysaccharides, and theanine. It has good effects on anti-cancer, lowering blood lipids, enhancing memory, and lowering blood pressure. First, there are many tea polyphenols, the most important of which EGCG has anti-cancer functions; the content of tea polysaccharides is 3.1 times that of black tea and 1.7 times that of green tea, which can enhance human immunity and reduce blood lipids; as a unique amino acid of tea-theanine The acid content reaches 1.1, which can promote blood circulation in the brain, enhance memory, and lower blood pressure.
In addition, Dahongpao also has the functions of improving eyesight and benefiting the mind, lightening the body (weight loss) and resisting aging (delaying aging), refreshing the mind, strengthening the stomach and digestion, diuretic and disinfection, eliminating phlegm and asthma, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, Anti-radiation, anti-cancer, anti-aging, lowering cholesterol, etc.
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There are only a few Dahongpao trees in history, and the only Dahongpao trees that are recognized are those on the rock wall of Kowloon Nest. In the best years, tea production is only a few hundred grams.
In the Republic of China, one kilogram was worth 64 silver dollars, equivalent to 4,000 kilograms of rice at that time. A few years ago, Jiulongtun Dahongpao tea was auctioned in the market, and 20 grams sold for a sky-high price of 156,800 yuan, setting a record for the highest unit price of tea.
When Nixon visited China in 1972, the then Chinese leader Mao Zedong gave him four taels of Dahongpao mother plant tea leaves. Because Nixon did not know that the Dahongpao mother plant had a low yield and was extremely precious, he privately complained that Mao Zedong was stingy. Zhou Enlai later explained this to Nixon, saying: "The chairman has given away 'half of the country'." He also told the origin of the Dahongpao. It was said that Nixon was in awe after hearing this.
In 1959, it was selected as "one of the top ten famous teas in China" by the National "Top Ten Famous Teas" Competition Club.
In 2010, the fifth impression work created by Zhang Yimou, Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue - "Impression Dahongpao" was officially performed in Wuyishan. In the same year, "Wuyishan Dahongpao" was newly recognized as a well-known trademark in China by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
In 2011, the "Impression Dahongpao" exclusive tea brand jointly launched by Guan Impression Art Development Co., Ltd. and Wuyixing Tea Co., Ltd. created by Zhang Yimou, Wang Chaoge, and Fan Yue. This is the first tea brand derived from the China Impression series of live-action landscape performances co-directed by Zhang Yimou, Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue's "Impression Triangle", marking the beginning of the breakout of Chinese tea brands.
In May 2013, the Wuyishan Municipal Government officially declared the world intangible cultural heritage to UNESCO.
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