Pingyang Tanghuang is a famous traditional tea in Zhejiang, also known as Wenzhou Tanghuang. It was listed as tribute tea during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which can be described as annual tribute.
According to the study of tribute tea in Qing Dynasty, the largest amount of tribute tea in Zhejiang is not Longjing tea, but yellow tea (Pingyang yellow soup), which is the main raw material for cooking milk tea in Qing Dynasty.
Even in the Yuan Dynasty, when people only knew how to shoot big sculptures with bows, yellow tea was highly sought after. "The jade pestle cloud is in the moon, and the golden knife takes the rain to cut the yellow buds." This is a poem by Lu Ye Chu Cai, the founding hero of the royal family of Liao country and Mongolia. According to the book, in the bright moonlight outside the chancellorsville, he took some small pieces from the yellow tea cake with his sabre and put them into an iron pot to mash and grind.
Royal nobles in all previous dynasties loved yellow buds, so it is natural to find out what they are. Yellow tea, symbolizing good luck, was highly praised by emperors and generals. The title of yellow tea does not directly use the emperor's emperor, but it is also very elegant.
In ancient times, yellow was a noble smell, which was used exclusively by emperors in previous dynasties. The colors of emperors, such as Tiananmen Square and glazed tiles in the Forbidden City, are all yellow. Yellow has been the representative color of the Chinese nation since ancient times, and it is also one of the colors advocated by the Han nation, and it is a symbol of outstanding life and wealth! Many highlights in China traditional culture are concentrated in a brown color, and the drinking image of yellow tea, which is supreme, admirable, amiable and lovely, is second to none.
Yellow tea-yellow buds and the sanctity of classics are far more than these accounts. In ancient times, Taoist priests built furnaces to make an alchemy, adding firewood to stir the fire day and night for 7749 days, and the lead-zinc cinnabar at the bottom of the furnace was condensed, which was the "yellow bud" that Taoist priests dreamed of. Lead flower is fine, which Taoism calls "yellow bud". This is not a coincidence, but the name that Huang Ya deliberately chose at the beginning of naming. Except for the venerable name "Yellow Bud", it seems that the ancients couldn't find a more suitable name to call this kind of tea.
Don Juan of Pingyang. Huangxiaocha, which belongs to six categories of yellow tea, has the characteristics of "dry yellow tea, apricot yellow soup and tender yellow leaves". It is also called the four traditional yellow teas in China together with Junshan Yinzhen, Mengding Huangya and Huoshan Huangya. Its shape is thin and tight, the color is yellow-green, the soup color is apricot yellow and bright, the aroma is fresh and sharp, the taste is fresh and cool, and the leaves at the bottom are even.
The production process of yellow tea is similar to that of green tea, except that there is an additional process of stuffy yellow. Its quality is characterized by yellow soup, yellow leaves, clear aroma and strong and refreshing taste. For many people who are not familiar with yellow tea, the characteristics of yellow soup and yellow leaves often think that yellow tea is green tea that has been damaged or put for a long time.
In fact, yellow tea needs to be stuffy, belonging to "retting tea", which will produce a lot of digestive enzymes in the process of retting, which is good for the spleen and stomach. Drinking yellow tea regularly has the effects of protecting the spleen and stomach, stimulating appetite, refreshing the brain and delaying aging.
When the tea buds are poured into a covered bowl along the teaspoon, they appear green with yellow and golden with golden light against the white porcelain. Tea soup smells as sweet as tender corn. Tea soup has the sweetness of green tea at the entrance, but the aftertaste is longer and mellow.