Evolvement of Tie-guan-yin tea(2)
Origin and evolvement of the white tie guan yin tea
The so-called white tie guan yin tea in Tang&Song Dynasty is made of the leaves from the occasionally found white tie guan yin tree, which is different from the white tie guan yin tea developed without frying or kneading. When in the Ming Dynasty, there appeared the white tie guan yin tea that’s similar to the one now.
The modern white tie guan yin tea is evolved gradually from the green tie guan yin tea of Song Dynasty. It indicated the silver white “Baihaoyinzhen”at first and then developed into “white peony”, “Gongmei”, ”Shoumei” and other varieties.
Emergence and development of red tie guan yin tea
The red tie guan yin tea originated from the 16th century. In the process of producing and developing of tie guan yin tea, people found that use solarizing instead of deactivating enzymes and kneading will turn leaves into red. The earliest red tie guan yin tea is planted in Chongan of Fujian province. From the small scale planting of red tie guan yin tea in the star village, it gradually evolved into the kongfu red tie guan yin tea. In the late 20 years of the 20th century, the red tie guan yin tea in India developed into pulverized red Dragon well tea. In 1950s, China started to make the pulverized red tie guan yin tea.
Origin the blue-green tie guan yin tea
The blue-green tie guan yin tea is between the green and red tie guan yin tea with the producing of green first and red later, from which we get the producing of blue-green tie guan yin tea. There’s still a controversy about the origin of blue-green tie guan yin, some people deduced that it came up in north Song Dynasty but some thought that it was in Qing Dynasty. However the place is consilient in Fujian province. The facture of the Wuyi Rock tie guan yin tea of Fujian keeps the feature of this traditional technics.