Drinking tea is a Chinese elegance that has been passed down for thousands of years. West Lake Longjing, which has a history of more than a thousand years, is loved by countless people.
West Lake Longjing is known as the "Queen of Green Tea" and is famous for its "green color, rich fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape". The fragrant Longjing seems to be a perfect match with flowers. In the Ming Dynasty, the method of "tea brings out the fragrance of flowers to improve the taste of tea" appeared. Gu Yuanqing, a tea expert at the time, had a detailed record in the book "Tea Book": "Jasmine... Osmanthus, plum blossoms, can all be used as tea. When the flowers bloom, pick the half-opened and half-released ones with full fragrance, measure the amount of tea leaves, and pick the flowers for tea."
According to legend, when the monks in the Hangzhou temple drank Longjing tea under the osmanthus tree, the osmanthus flowers fell into the cup. The fragrance of flowers and the charm of tea are integrated into one, and the taste is excellent. "It is tea, if it is tea, admire poets, love monks." In this way, the tradition of pairing West Lake Longjing with flowers has been passed down.
When the sweet osmanthus is fragrant, autumn has also arrived. Now Tongxinshe Teahouse recommends a high-quality "superior sweet osmanthus Longjing tea" to let you experience the taste of different seasons in Jiangnan.
Early autumn sweet osmanthus and early spring Longjing, when the two major features of Hangzhou meet, the taste that collides is irresistible. This tea is a "superior sweet osmanthus Longjing tea" made by Tongxinshe Teahouse and Manjuelong tea farmers using the first-level Longjing No. 43 in the Shifeng production area
Osmanthus is the city flower of Hangzhou. Once autumn comes, the sweet fragrance of sweet osmanthus fills the alleys. The Ming Dynasty poet Gao Lian even had the famous words "The most prosperous places for sweet osmanthus are only Nanshan and Longjing... The fragrance fills the empty mountains, and the deepness is appreciated, as if entering the world of Lingjiu Jinsu." This sweet osmanthus Longjing is all selected from the high-quality sweet osmanthus in Hangzhou, and the fragrance is rich. Longjing tea picked in spring is still fresh and green, and sweet osmanthus is in full bloom. One spring and one autumn, Longjing is reborn.
Longjing tea has a green color, a subtle fragrance, a mellow taste and a beautiful shape. The sweet osmanthus is fragrant and has a golden color. When brewing, the tender green tea buds slowly sink to the bottom of the cup, and the yellow petals gently float on the water, like stars. The sweet osmanthus is sweet, and Longjing is fresh and mellow. It is fragrant and refreshing when you take a sip.
The requirements for sweet osmanthus Longjing are "tea as the bones and flowers as the rhyme". Neither the golden color of the flowers will take away the elegance of the tea soup, nor will the rich fragrance of the flowers cover the fragrance of the tea. Therefore, the requirements for Longjing and sweet osmanthus are very high. Sweet osmanthus picked in the early morning with dew must be selected. The selected sweet osmanthus must be dried in bamboo strips first, and a layer of tea and a layer of sweet osmanthus are stacked up, and then put into the lime jar for scenting.
The temperature must be kept stable during scenting. Finally, after heat dissipation, screening of flower residues, and repeated drying, the tea will have "three parts of sweet osmanthus and seven parts of Longjing rhyme".
Premium Osmanthus Longjing: Made from premium Longjing tea from West Lake in Hangzhou and sweet osmanthus, it has a long history and has existed as early as the Song Dynasty.
The soup is bright green; the aroma is rich, with the fragrance of flowers and tea blended together; the taste is fresh, mellow, and sweet.
Osmanthus Longjing has many effects and functions, such as relieving stomach pain, refreshing breath, beautifying the skin, clearing away heat and detoxifying, strengthening the body, refreshing the mind, and lowering blood lipids and blood pressure.