Chapter 1195 (1/2)

English people like to drink tea, and there are many kinds. Most people like to drink black tea. In addition, Earl Grey tea, jasmine tea and green tea are also loved by the British.

However, black tea, the favorite drink of the British, sounds like it should have been invented by the British, but in fact, black tea was invented by the Chinese.

At the beginning of the 17th century, tongmuguan in Wuyishan, Fujian, took the lead in developing Zhengshan small black tea, so Zhengshan small black tea can be regarded as the ancestor of black tea in the world.

However, the reason why black tea is popular all over the world is due to the favorable climate and location. The 17th century was in the era of Western navigation, so black tea spread to Europe and became popular in the aristocratic circles of various countries.

In 1662, when Spanish Princess Catherine married to the British royal family, she brought very precious black tea and granulated sugar as a dowry, which brought the habit of drinking black tea to Britain. Later, it also developed into English afternoon tea to be eaten with snacks, which made it an indispensable part of British culture.

In history, black tea also triggered two wars: one was that Britain relied too much on importing Chinese black tea and exported opium in order to reverse the trade deficit with China, which led to the Opium War; The other was the Boston Tea dumping incident that triggered the American War of independence. It can be seen how much the British love black tea. For this reason, he did not hesitate to war.

As for the distinction of black tea, according to the production process, there are three categories: small black tea, Kung Fu black tea and broken black tea.

Small black tea includes Zhengshan small tea (without smoke smell) and tobacco small tea (with smoke smell). The obvious rosin is the most special place of tobacco small tea. The tea soup of pine small black tea tastes mellow and sweet. After careful experience, there will be an aroma of longan soup.

The name of Gongfu black tea is just as the name implies. Because its processing process is relatively fine and there is a lot of ”time”, it gets this name. Yunnan's Dianhong, Sichuan's Chuanhong, Anhui's Qihong, Hubei's Yihong and Fujian's Minhong are all famous Gongfu black tea, so don't talk about black tea, just know Dianhong. In fact, there are many kinds.

It seems that many people have the impression that broken black tea is actually made of bad broken tea as raw materials. In fact, broken black tea has its own production process, which basically involves the process of kneading and cutting. When such black tea is brewed, its aroma and soup color are not often easy to soak out.

Of course, by now, black tea has been cultivated all over the world. Therefore, there are many different varieties of tea according to the planting place of black tea.

For example, Assam black tea, Ceylon black tea, Darjeeling black tea, etc.

In black tea, it is generally recognized that Jinjunmei tea is superior and expensive, and most people can't afford it at all.

Jin Junmei, a branch of Zhengshan race, is an innovative black tea developed by Jiang Yuanxun, the 24th generation successor of Zhengshan race, through innovation and integration on the basis of traditional technology. It is produced in Tongmu village.

In terms of technology, Jin Junmei is handmade by tea makers in the whole process. Every 500g of Jin Junmei needs tens of thousands of fresh tea bud tips. Jinjunmei has no varieties, but only one kind. The raw materials are picked from the original ecological Alpine tea buds with an area of 565 square kilometers in Wuyishan National Key nature reserve, and then completed through a series of complex withering, shaking, fermentation, rolling and other processing steps. Therefore, Jin Junmei is also expensive.

As for the efficacy of black tea, it has rich aroma, sweet and mellow taste, and because of fermentation, black tea usually does not cause insomnia after drinking, but also helps gastrointestinal digestion and promotes appetite.

How to choose, it's simple. When looking at the appearance of dry tea, it is good to have a little luster, black and brown; Looking at the color of the soup, it shows orange red and red. The soup feels bright and bright, and it is also of good quality. However, it should be noted that some dry tea looks golden and beautiful. As soon as it is soaked with a layer of yellow, it will turn into the soup. In that way, it will be dyed with lemon yellow, so it can't be purchased; In terms of aroma, there are honey aroma and flower aroma. As long as the aroma is pure, I like it.

At the moment, Qin Feng is facing black tea from pure imported China. As for where, Qin Feng doesn't know.