Starting from this month, Hangzhou will officially implement the "Grade Evaluation Standard for West Lake Longjing Tea Roasters", and the "Grade of West Lake Longjing Tea Roasters" will be evaluated for the first time.

"West Lake Longjing Tea Bakers Grade Evaluation Standard" stipulates that: the skill training master of tea bakers must have the professional qualification of tea bakers or above; The skill training master of fried tea technician must have the professional qualification of senior fried tea technician.

West Lake Longjing is known as "green, fragrant, mellow and beautiful". Because the production process of this kind of tea is very complicated, it must be processed at a high temperature of 80 degrees Celsius, so as to keep the color, fragrance and beauty of the tea and make each piece of tea "straight, flat, flat and bright", while the traditional hand-fried tea is hard and stuffy. In order to save trouble, young tea farmers choose to make tea by machine, but the machine can't give off the unique taste of Longjing after all.

The implementation of the new standard is conducive to the protection and inheritance of the unique traditional tea frying skills of West Lake Longjing, so that "craft tea" will not be lost. It is reported that the tea-frying master who has obtained the professional qualification of senior tea-frying technician can take his apprentice, and the expenses for the apprentice to learn the "West Lake Longjing tea-frying skills" will be paid by the municipal government. As long as the master trains a master of tea frying for West Lake Longjing, he can reward nearly 1,000 yuan. In this way, obtaining the professional qualification certificate of West Lake Longjing tea frying skills will not only bring honor and benefits to tea farmers, but also encourage more young people to become experts in tea frying.