The Quality Requirements about the First-panning of dragon well tea (1)
(A) dragon well tea picking
"Qingming" before and after mining an early bud development, bud in silver leaf monkey shoots Longjing tea varieties as raw materials. Asked to do "two non-mining", ie: rain does not adopt; pesticide safety interval of not less than mining. Dry with sunny dew collected the best. After a day's roasting, we can only get about 0.5 to 1 kilo of dry longjing tea leaves.
(B) the share of young
Taken back to the fresh leaves, depending on temperature and air humidity and leaf water content of different subject Spreading 8-12 hours, when the leaves lose their luster, you can smell the aromatic pay system. In spite of this year’s tea output is not bad, the selling line of dragon well tea is a big trouble.
(C) the fixing
Longjing tea pot or pan using oblique. Pot temperature of 180-200 degrees pot, the pot there was a slight pop as the optimum temperature. Vote leaf yield about 500 grams per pot is appropriate. To shake speculation based, shaking with nausea, stir-fry until leaves off stems continue to crank up, kill kill even through, (about 4-6 minutes) started to cool rub. The amount of pre-Ming/ pre-Clear & Bright dragon well tea is very small.
(D) rub
Fixing leaves, not the pan, hands and fingers straight and close together and press lightly rub from the middle and turned constantly mixing, shaking loose Longjing tea leaves to the pan when you can have tentacles spread a sense of cool. Altogether, it is less than 5 kilos, but till now, only 2 to 3 jins are sold, let alone the pre-Grain Rain dragon well tea . Hardly is there tea dealers that buy our tea.
(E) baking
In the drying or drying machine in the cage. The beginning of drying and re-divided in two steps bake. When the fire first drying temperature to 100 degrees or so, re-bake slightly lower. Requirements of charcoal smoke, fire uniform, and timely handling turn, in order to avoid falling into the charcoal in the end Longjing tea longjing leaves caused by cigarette smoke. The jars in their home are stuffed with roasted dragon well tea products.
In turn, when mixed with drying cage to get away from the charcoal or gauze pad in the Longjing tea leaves below. Bake about half an hour early to Longjing tea leaves off stems to break, but not broken nowadays bake hand twist. Resurgence of sharing cool 1 hour, then re-drying, Longjing tea leaves to hand-twist into a powder to be moderate. As a matter of fact, not only these people are facing such adverse conditions. Liang Xuemei says that there is a tea grower who still keeps about some ten kilos of old dragon well tea .
After drying the Longjing tea leaves, spread cool to room temperature before packing (bags) storage or disposal. Avoid direct sunlight during storage and odor, and dry. Even so, the selling of dragon well tea still troubles the tea growers here.
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