Drinking value of the “King of tea” tieguanyin tea
Tieguanyin tea is native to the small town Xiping in Anxi county and was found around the fourth year of Yongzheng’s reign in Qing Dynasty(1725), tie guan yin tea is nonesuch in oolong tea and was cited as national famous tea and world famous tea. It was appointed to be the exclusive tea for Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and State Council Guoyi Hotel so became the national tea of China. Tieguanyin is the name of tea trees as well as the product name of tea. Since 1916, tieguanyin tea has won prizes in domestic and abroad appraisal activities for several times and was praised as “longevous tea”, “vernal beautifying tea” and “champagne in teas”. What’s more, tieguanyin tea has been concerned and loved by central authorities leaders and all walks of life who wield the brush to write inscriptions and indite to leave a large number of precious writings and poem.
Early in 1987, Fangyi the former vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee wrote inscriptions for Anxi tieguanyin tea: “wonderful and elegant tea”. In the same year, professor Chenchuan of Anhui Agricultural University as well as the famous person in world agriculture wrote inscriptions: tieguanyin tea is the King while golden osmanthus tea is the overlord. The famous tea professor Zhuang Wanfang who’s also the honorary Director-General of Chinese Tea Institute and Mr. Wang Zenong have separately written beautiful inscriptions for tieguanyin tea. It owes to it’s unique drinking value besides the excellent quality for tieguanyin to get so much laurel and be so deeply loved.
Tasting, serving guests while making friends; increasing friendship and commercial opportunity
Anxi natives serve people by tea instead of alcohol and that passes down from generation to generation to become a custom. Step into every family in Anxi, you’ll firstly notice the whole set of tea set on teapoy or table. The table for brewing tea which is commonly referred as “tea table” can be found everywhere in streets and lanes. Anxi natives take tieguanyin tea as treasure so they pay particular attention to the brewing skills and tea set. They generally choose porcelain or pottery pot or cup and clear pure natural spring water. When friends come from afar, hosts immediately treat guests hospitably to take chairs and offer seats then heat up water for brewing tea. Not long after, the small house would be full of inviting fragrance, which is exact as the saying “smell the fantastic aroma not even tasting the wonderful nectar”.
The hosts serve the scented tea as well as showing a kind concern for guests’ comfort while guests tasting the wonderful tea as well as chatting. It is indeed pleasure of life and enjoyment of art to get the famous tea, excellent tea set and wonderful water matched. Hosts serve guests by tieguanyin tea as honor to show their respect while guests take it as glory to be served by a cup of precious tieguanyin tea. Therefore, by tasting tieguanyin tea you can not only obtain wonderful enjoyment but also promote affection exchange between friends so as to deepen friendship.
With the developing of opening up, the western early morning tea custom has been popular quietly in south Fujian area. Teahouses and tea art houses have emerged because of demand, which forms new tea tasting sight spots. The so-called early morning tea in many places refers to people take tea, milk or soy milk and sweet or salty dim sum as their breakfast in small restaurants, teahouses or hotels beside road, bus station or in busy streets. Some people serve friends, relatives or clients in business with the early morning tea for they can taste tea when discuss business. Conferring business by drinking tieuguanyin tea makes people refresh and exuberant.
The excellent atmosphere could not only promote successful cooperation but also increase opportunities for more cooperation. Actually, the early morning tea custom had been popular early in Anxi and that was the real drinking morning tea. Quite a lot of people get up early and head to heat up water to brew tea, which had become a common step for their daily life. Some people drink tea before eating breakfast while some of them don’t even eat breakfast but eat some twisted cruller or bread while drinking tea. However, not all the people only drink tieguanyin tea for each time.
People who drink tieguanyin tea every time are lucky as immortals. Tea art houses pay more attention to tea quality. A cup of high quality tieguanyin tea could bring people into deep and serene traditional sado by its unique “Kwan-yin flavor”. That makes the tea art house full of rich cultural tradition and bright modern social atmosphere more elegant and tranquil. That also makes people more tacit, harmonious and refreshing. No wonder it’s said that once you taste tie guan yin tea, you’ll not be willing to put it down.
Solid or liquid tea drinking, appropriate for cate or appetizer
Since the implementing of reform and opening-up, the Anxi county Party committee and prefectural government had concerned a lot on deeply processing of tea and actively developed solid and liquid tea drinking according to special value and market requirement of tieguanyin tea. In 1988, Anxi alcohol factory had successfully developed “tieguanyin tea-alcohol” and was tested and appraised by Fujian light manufacturing hall. The tea-alcohol was called new-type flavor, which was domestic initiation.
Tieguanyin tea-alcohol takes tieguanyin tea that is famous both at home and abroad as its main material and takes use of natural mineral spring water from Qingshui Rock then be made refinedly. The product contains aroma of both tea and alcohol and natural nutritious elements of tieguanyin tea as well, which is the new-type nutritious drinking alcohol. It had been popular ever in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. For years, Anxi county has developed portable tea drinking series that contain both flavor and functions of tea and drinking such as instant tieguanyin tea, gen-seng tieguanyin tea, tieguanyin stomachic tea and tieguanyin in pop can.
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