Huangshan Mao Feng is a famous tea in Anhui. Huangshan Mao Feng is one of the top ten famous teas in China and belongs to green tea. Huangshan Mao Feng, also known as Huicha, originated in Huangshan, Anhui Province, and the green tea was picked at the peak of Huangshan City. It is also called Huizhou tea. Tea leaves are slightly curly in appearance, like a sparrow tongue, and the colors are green and yellow, but silver is rare. Because it also contains orange fish leaves, it is also called koi fish fillets. Huangshan Mountain is located between Shexian County, Taiping County, Xiuning County and Ganxian County in Anhui Province. There are towering and strange peaks, vigorous and colorful Jinsong, clear and turbulent mountain springs and fluctuating clouds. Known as the "four wonders" of Huangshan Mountain, it is fascinating. Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, pushed Huangshan Mountain to the top of the famous mountain in China, leaving a famous saying that "the five mountains return without looking at the mountains, and Huangshan Mountain returns without looking at the mountains".
Huangshan area, because of its high mountains, good soil quality, warmth and humidity, is full of fog in the morning and evening on sunny days and clouds in rainy days, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees and has a long history of tea production. According to historical records, Huangshan tea was quite famous more than 400 years ago. "Huang Shanzhi" said: "Tea is kept in a crevice next to the Lotus Temple, which is fragrant and cold, and attacks people's palate, so it is called Huangshan Yunwu Tea". According to legend, this is the predecessor of Huangshan Mao Feng. Huizhou Fuzhi records: "Tea production in Huangshan started in Song Jiayou and flourished in Qin Long in Ming Dynasty". When did the real Huangshan Mao Feng tea come into being? According to Huizhou 0 data, it originated in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty (1875 or so). At that time, Xie Zhengan (Zi Jinghe), a tea merchant in Shexian County, opened the "Xie Yutai" tea shop. In order to meet the market demand, around the Qingming Festival, he personally led people to Chongchuan, Tangkou and other famous gardens to collect fertilizers and young leaves.
Huangshan Mao Feng Tea is produced in Huangshan Scenic Area and its neighboring areas such as Tangkou, Chongchuan, Gangcun, Fangcun, Yangcun and Changtan, among which Taohuafeng, Yungu Temple, Ciguang Pavilion, Gangcun and Chongchuan have the best quality. Huangshan Mao Feng is divided into special grade and first, second and third grades. The super Huangshan Mao Feng was harvested before and after the Qingming Festival, 1 bud, 1 leaf, and other grades were harvested 1 bud, 1, 2 leaves or 1 bud, 2 or 3 leaves. Choose high-grade tea with strong buds and much hair. After light wiping, it is inactivated at high temperature, fried and baked.
Mao Feng, unique to Huangshan Mountain, looks like a sparrow tongue, with exposed white hair, ivory color and golden fish leaves. After brewing, the aroma is high and long, the soup color is clear, the taste is fresh, thick, mellow and sweet, and the leaves are light yellow and fat. Among them, "golden fish leaves" and "ivory color" are two obvious features that distinguish the Super Huangshan Mao Feng from other Mao Feng.
For the tasting of Huangshan Mao Feng, the water temperature should be about 80℃ when brewing. Glass or white porcelain teacups will do. Generally, it can be brewed with water for 2-3 times. .
Huangshan Mao Feng, a famous tea in Qing Dynasty, belongs to the category of green tea baking. For a long time, people have been using the view that "famous mountains are famous for their tea" to infer that Mao Feng in Huangshan Mountain was named after the cloud of Huangshan Mountain in Ming Dynasty. Huangshan Mao Feng is produced in Huangshan Mountain, Shexian County, Anhui Province. One of the top ten famous teas in China. Created by Xie Yutai Tea House in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty (Huizhou 0 data). Every year in Qingming Grain Rain, full buds are selected and fried by hand. The tea is slightly curly in shape, like a sparrow tongue, yellow in green, with exposed silver hair and golden fish leaves (commonly known as golden slices). The cup bubble makes the fog top, the soup is light and yellow, the leaves are yellow and green, the taste is mellow and sweet, the aroma is green and the charm is long. Because the newly-made tea is covered with white hair, with sharp buds and fresh leaves collected from the peak of Huangshan Mountain, it is named Huangshan Mao Feng.
The appearance of Huangshan Mao Feng
Huangshan Mao Feng tea is slightly curly in shape, shaped like a sparrow tongue, with a bluish yellow color and rich silver and gold flakes. After brewing, the soup color is clear and light yellow, the leaves are yellow and green, the entrance is sweet, there is a faint natural orchid fragrance, and the charm is long.
Health care efficacy of Huangshan Mao Feng
Huangshan Mao Feng is an unfermented tea. It is rich in tea polyphenols, caffeine, tannic acid and vitamins. It has the health-care effects of refreshing, losing weight, diminishing inflammation, diuresis and detoxification, and is suitable for drinking in summer.