What is the best tea in Quanzhou? Where can I buy it?
According to records, the origin of Anxi Tieguanyin tea was asked in Yongzheng period (1725- 1735). Anxi county is mountainous, with warm climate, abundant rainfall, lush tea trees and a wide variety of tea trees, ranking first in the country. Anxi Tieguanyin tea can be produced four times a year, including spring tea, summer tea, summer tea and Tieguanyin autumn tea. Tieguanyin tea has the best quality among spring tea and autumn tea. The weather is sunny and windy on tea picking day, and the quality of tea picked is the best. Therefore, local tea picking is mostly carried out on sunny days 10 from morning to 3 pm. The production process of Tieguanyin is basically the same as that of general oolong tea, except that it has more shaking times and shorter cooling time.
Generally, it is dried before the evening, shaken all night, fermented the next morning, and then roasted for a day and night. The production process of Anxi Tieguanyin is divided into nine processes: drying, shaking, cooling, deactivating enzymes, cutting and kneading, primary baking, kneading, redrying and drying.
Tieguanyin is dark green in color, shaped like a pearl, golden in soup color, fresh and refreshing in taste and high in aroma, and is known as "green leaves with red edges and seven fragrant bubbles".
Tieguanyin is not only a precious natural drink, but also has a good beauty and health care function. Scientific analysis and practice have proved that Tieguanyin is rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals, tea polyphenols and alkaloids, and has a variety of nutritional and medicinal components, which has the effects of clearing away heat and improving eyesight, sterilizing and diminishing inflammation, losing weight and beautifying, delaying aging, preventing and treating cancer, lowering blood fat and cholesterol, and reducing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
Tieguanyin tea with good quality is fat and tight, as heavy as iron, with obvious green hibiscus sand, green background, bright red spots, high sweet fragrance, sweet, mellow and fresh, unique taste, sweet and rich aftertaste, and still lingering fragrance after being brewed for 7 times; The soup is golden in color, with thick and soft leaves, even brightness, red spots and red edges on the leaves. All previous exhibitions at home and abroad have won the first prize and won many awards, enjoying a high reputation.