Dragon Well Tea (Long Jing Tea)
Dragon Well (or Longjing, Long Jing tea)
Tech Soon sachete packed Dragon Well Tea is a high quality product, which is made under the combination of both traditional and modern techniques. Bright and yellowish green, the aromatic Dragon Well Tea tastes mild but long lasting.
More information about Dragon Well tea can be found here
Usage
Put one tea bag in a cup. Poour in fresh boiling water and allow t oinfuse for 2-3 minutes to serve.
Ingredients
Selected Dragon Well Tea - 100%
Package
75 g per bag The Gragon Well tea bag Green tea from the Chinese village of Dragon Well (Lung Ching in local parlance). Dragon Well tea (or Long Jing, Longjing tea) has a distinguished shape. Its leaves are broad and flat, a result of laborious drying. There is something to show for this hard work: Dragon Well tea is refreshingly smooth, sweet and delicate, among the very best of Chinese greens. Our "Dragon Well Requiem" is a First Grade version of this truly sublime tea.
Dragon Well tea information :
Dragon Well tea is one of the famouse Chinese green teas which not only popular interiorly but also welcomed overseas. Dragon well tea is a flat shaped green tea looks like the sparrow's tongue. The production of Dragon Well tea began from 1200 years ago. The earliest dragon well tea is produced in the tea producing areas surrounding ancient "Dragon" well below the Lion Mountain of Zhejiang province. As the expand of producing areas, dragon well tea generally refered to the teas produced in west Lake area. In 1970s', the plucking and producing technique of dragon well tea was rapidly spreaded in Zhejiang, also spreaded to other tea producing areas in China. Currently, dragon well tea is generally referring to the slap-up flat-shaped stir-fried green tea that made by the similar plucking and producing technique as West Lake dragon well tea. To differentiate dragon well tea from different producing area, the name of "dragon well tea" is always preceded by the name of its practical producing area. For example, dragon well tea from Xinchang is named "Xinchang dragon well tea".( Xinchang, a city of Zhejiang province) "DRAGON" well The "well" is an actual spring-fed well (a circular stone enclosure where the water is gathered) with a temple and a teahouse nearby--not far from Hangzhou. Legend has it that during a severe drought a resident monk summoned up a lucky dragon he'd heard was in the neighborhood. He prayed, and lo, the rains came, the crops were saved, and the peasants rejoiced. West Lake Dragon Well Tea: Tea has long been grown in hills around the West Lake. In "Classics on Tea" written by Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty, the first treatise on tea leave production, the West Lake area was recorded as tea producing area. In the Song Dynasty, West Lake Dragon Well Tea was presented to the court as tributes. West Lake dragon well tea is renowned as "green in hue, strong fragrance, mellow taste and pretty appearance". It is soft but far, fragrant but fresh, having a distinctive style. Poets always express their ardent love for West Lake Dragon Well Tea using the beautiful words like "golden sprout" and uniqueness. So it's not strange that a poet wrote the following poem for dragon well tea: " Such scenery is so wonderful that I'd rather be a tea grower than a poet." The Dragon Well Tea can be divided into four marks, namely, "Lion", "Dragon", "Cloud" and "Tiger". Among them, "Lion" is taken as the best. Tea leaves of the Dragon Well Tea is just like a bowl of pins, flat and graceful, smooth and even, fresh yellowish green. When soaked in the teacup, it stands straight high, looking like a flower. Dragon Well is the Tiffany of green teas, and more has been written about this pinnacle event tea than any other. The adjectives are running out. The only way I can begin to describe a great Dragon Well is to say it tastes like the very essence of a lush spring meadow drenched in morning dew, mingled with the scents of rich black earth, roses, and honeysuckle. Imagine imbibing—not inhaling, not smelling, but actually drinking—such a liquid. Once you taste a great Dragon Well, the only problem you'll have will be keeping it in stock and paying attention to other green teas. The "well" is an actual spring-fed well (a circular stone enclosure where the water is gathered) with a temple and a teahouse nearby—not far from Hangshou. Legend has it that during a severe drought a resident monk summoned up a lucky dragon he'd heard was in the neighborhood. He prayed, and lo, the rains came, the crops were saved, and the peasants rejoiced. Tigers (also good luck) get into a second legend. Another drought dried up the spring that fed the well, and soon thereafter, miraculously, two tigers appeared and began to dash back and forth near the spring, causing the water to gush forth anew—as it continues to gush to this day. Since then spring has been called Tiger Run Spring, and the name has been affixed to certain lesser teas. Drinking Dragon Well made from the first flush (the first spring picking), with water from the well, is said to be the ultimate tea drinker's experience. When Chairman Mao Tse-Tung met with President Nixon for the first time, the tea they drank was Dragon Well, and it was in springtime, in the teahouse, near the temple. Did Nixon grasp the honor? I wonder. But words fail. This tea demands to be drunk rather than talked about. Brewing Dragonwell 1. Cover the bottom of the guywan (covered cup) with a shallow layer of the dry leaf, approximately 1 teaspoon 2. Start heating 2 to 3 cups of cold, filtered water in a saucepan. 3. When you see the Fish Eyes (160 -180F) breaking the surface, the water is ready to pour. 4. Pour the water into the guywan. 5. Let the leaves rest for a minute or so, then stroke the water with the lid (or with a soupspoon). Replace the lid. 6. In another minute or so, you can begin to drink. 7. When you have finished one cup, add more hot water directly, as is, from the saucepan.
|
WillyFogg.com doesn't sell any of the products listed on our site.
To buy a product you need to use the link provided and visit the seller's site.
|