West Lake Longjing tea

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As the top famous tea, West Lake Longjing Tea is produced in the areas of Shifeng, Longjing, Wuyunshan and Hupao around the West Lake in Hangzhou. In history, they were divided in four kinds “Lion, Dragon, Cloud and Tiger.” Plum was listed after 1912. And it’s acknowledged that the tea came from Shifeng has the best quality.

West Lake Longjing tea has a smooth, flat and straight shape; its color is green with yellow like brown rice; and the taste is thick and pure, it also has elegant smell and vivid tea color, moreover, the tea leaf may be very tender like a flower. Therefore, it enjoys high reputation for the four wonders “vivid color, strong flavor, mellow taste and graceful shape”. The processing methods of Longjin Tea include the ten main ways of “catching, shaking, and building, rubbing, restraining, pushing, buttoning, throwing, grinding and pressing”. The first-class Longjin Tea has a smooth, flat and straight shape. Its color is green with yellow like the brown rice; and the taste is thick and pure; it also owns elegant smell and vivid tea color; moreover, the tea leaf may be very tender like the flower. The tea has not only integrated the tea color, smell, taste and shape in itself, but also integrated the famous mountains, temples, lakes and springs in its culture, which created the unique and outstanding Longjin Tea culture that is rare around the whole world.