Dahongpao Introduction

You may have heard of Dahongpao.
But you may not know.
Dahongpao is the king of oolong tea
Dahongpao produced in the world's dual heritage of Fujian Wuyi Mountain
According ancient to legend, a scholar to Beijing exam
Halfway in Wuyishan ill
Local villagers with tea to cure
To be a scholar to return home
Put his body red robe draped over the tea tree to show thanks

Dahongpao is known as the king of oolong tea
Is because of its taste is very domineering drink for a long time bubble is not short
There is a private proverb a bubble two bubble tea three bubble four bubble is the essence
Oolong tea is a semi-fermented tea
Its distinctive feature is
The middle leaf surface is green around the circle is red
Known as the green leaf red trim
Dahongpao picking is the comparison of late tea
Generally three leaves and one tea core

The use of such tea green
Can make the oolong tea has a complex tea rhyme
Picked down the tea
After a period of withering
It is necessary to enter the most important part of the shake green
The main principle is to shake the green tea in the movement of the collision with each other

Collision edge will ferment red
While the leaves remain green
To a semi-fermented state
In the early majority of hand-shake blue
In the modern can be used to shake the barrel to significantly improve efficiency
The process of fermentation has been to see the fermentation state
Once the red-green edge effect

Shake is to stop
And in order to prevent the fermentation from continuing
This step is called fried green
Roasted after the tea immediately stop fermentation
Into a relatively static state
Next we have to roll
The tea leaves are placed in a twisting machine
Twisted into a cord-like
In order to reduce the volume

After the completion of the tea to go through the machine after the first baking water
The initial drying made of Maocha
Will be Maocha points after bagging
A detailed manual selection is done by category
The hair will be broken in tea tea reeds, etc. one by one pick to reed
Again into bags

Wait for re-baking
Generally this process needs to wait a month to two months
After the fire can be brewed for drinking
Dahongpao brewing need to use boiling water
High into the bowl
Water full slightly overflow

Scrape the floating foam on the surface of the bowl
General first bubble brewing time should not be too long
That is washed out
From the second bubble to the third bubble, the brewing time can be gradually extended
Dryinggreen--Shakeblue--Fried--Rolling--Firstbaking--Re-baking