What is the tea commonly known as monkey picking?

Stone Cliff Tea Stone Cliff Tea Scientific name Liangye Huang Ruimu, Yang Tong belongs to the tea family, a treasure in tea, growing in the damp cliffs or streams of the holy mountain in Pingle County. The ancients needed to train monkeys to pick, and the folk also called "fairy tea" and "monkey picking tea".

It is said that in ancient times, a mountain man from Taiping County went to pick tea, walked to the mountains, suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, looked around, and finally found that there were several old tea trees on the cliff, and the fragrance was wafting from there. There is no way to follow the mountain, so I can only leave.

Pu'er Tea** Grows on cliffs and needs to be picked by monkeys, what kind of tea is this?

But he never forgot the strange smell of the tea leaves, so the mountain people began to train the monkeys, and every tea picking season, they would bring cloth covers to the monkeys and let them go to rock climbing and tea picking on their behalf, from which the name of the monkey came.

Of all the green teas, the Taiping Houkui is the strangest-looking, with leaves several centimeters long, as if they were some kind of sun-dried vegetable.

In addition to its peculiar appearance, Taiping Monkey Kui has a unique throat rhyme compared to other green teas. Of course, in the Guangzhou dialect, I like to pronounce this throat rhyme as a homonym, which is monkey luck, which means good luck.

Pu'er Tea** Grows on cliffs and needs to be picked by monkeys, what kind of tea is this?

Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Huangshan District, Taiping Lake, Taiping Lake area, is the production of Taiping Monkey Kui place, look at the name to know, tea take Taiping County "Taiping" and Monkey Pit "Kui" words have the meaning of "highest" and "best".

Taiping Monkey Kui is simply "big and coarse", other green tea is small to tender is expensive, early to new for the top grade, but Taiping Monkey Kui has to pick it late, wait until the valley rains, wait until there are three or four leaves of one bud, and the tea farmer will pick it off.

In addition to the large leaves, Houkui is not as delicate as other green teas, and must be picked before Qingming, in order to be a "new" word. Monkey Kui is very calm, early picking words even the leaves have not grown up, have to wait for the valley rain, can open the garden to pick, there is a "not the flower in the preference for chrysanthemum, this flower blooms more flowerless" meaning.

Although the tea was picked late, the tea leaves are still fresh and not old. Picking starts after the rain in the valley, will continue until the beginning of summer, in the picking method is also very particular, can only be picked on a sunny day, it is said that the tea picked in the rainy day will be black and the fragrance is insufficient, and it is best to pick up the mountain in the fog in the early morning, after the fog recedes and the sun comes out, I will call it a day and go home to start picking fresh leaves, to ensure that the size of the tea is neat, the old and tender are consistent, and the most important thing is to select a bud with two leaves, as the raw material for making Monkey Kui.

The Huangshan Mountains have always been one of the important tea-producing areas in China, with unique suitable tea, water, soil and climate, and the good tea produced in the past dynasties has been spread to various places with the Hui merchants.

Taiping Houkui is produced on the shore of Taiping Lake in Huangshan District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, where the soil is mostly granite weathered Wusha soil, which is deep and fertile, aerated and permeable, and the tea produced is the most suitable for making Taiping Houkui.

Taiping Houkui should grow in a valley with a certain altitude, but not too high, in the morning after the clouds disperse there will be timely light, not too long, not without, in winter and not too cold to freeze to the tea, so that the tea tree can grow vigorously. It is better to have pine forests, bamboo forests and some plants around the tea plantations, and tea farmers believe that such complex vegetation will give the tea trees a special fragrance.

Monkey tea belongsJasmine teaMaster Yan Jianping, the head of the monkey tea, said that jasmine tea is a kind of tea that blends tea and flowers together, and through the kiln process, the floral fragrance is locked in the tea, so that there is tea in the flowers, and there are flowers in the tea, so that the tea made not only reduces the bitterness of the tea, but also melts the jasmine fragrance into the tea to make the tea more fresh and rich.

The reason why Monkey Jasmine Tea is loved by everyone is not only because of its aroma, but also because it is a healthy drink.

Process characteristics. Since the establishment of the tea factory in 1978, the Yan family has been concentrating on making jasmine tea, adhering to the spirit of craftsmanship, the head of Yan Jianping has been studying the process of making jasmine tea, and the control of each process is meticulous and even almost harsh. Although he has won the title of inheritor of Fuzhou jasmine tea making technology, Yan Jianping still has a pious attitude towards tea making.

The traditional production process of jasmine tea is very complex, and it has to go through flower serving, sieving flowers, tea embryo treatment, flowering, flowering, re-fire, jacquard.

Evenly pile up eight processes, these 8 processes can be done to get the most basic tea, and the jasmine tea that can be used as a "national gift" to go abroad must repeat these 8 processes.

Eight or nine times, that is, the top tea in jasmine tea carries 8 teas and 9 teas.