丨This article was originally written by Xiao Chen Chashi
丨First published in Baijiahao: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
In today's society, there should be very few people who have not encountered counterfeit and shoddy products.
It is said that we should have more trust in the society, but it is a pity that we must guard against people.
Sometimes, people are deceived because they trust.
Buying goods is out of trust in the merchant, once deceived, the trust between the merchant and the customer is broken, and naturally the customer will not buy again.
Trust between people is so fragile, after all, if you don't have a heart now, you will often be deceived in society.
I saw a ** before, a group of college students met an old man, the old man said that he was 70 years old, abandoned by his family because of cancer, and was homeless.
College students took the elderly to see Tiananmen Square in Beijing at their own expense, and also crowdfunded medical expenses to take them to see a doctor.
But the actual result is that the old man did not suffer from cancer, his age was also fake, and there was an elder brother at home who had a 13-year criminal record.
The college students who learned the truth were shocked and said it was hard to believe.
In the end, it is also a response to the public, and the donations that have been used will be repaid by working later.
It's really a sigh, I never thought about what the trust of this society has been trampled on
Everyone is saying that society has taught college students a lesson, but in fact, it is not only college students, but also former themselves.
In the past, many people should have done good deeds, but after discovering that their kindness was maliciously used, they would no longer choose to do good.
People's trust in this society also collapsed at a certain moment.
If you think about it, there are many elements of fraud in society.
Fraud of academic qualifications, fraud of experience, and fraud of goods are everywhere.
In the years of dealing with white tea, I have also encountered a lot of fraud.
A tea friend asked before: "Can the jujube fragrance of white tea also be faked?"”
Of course.
The conditions for the production of jujube incense are not simple, and even a bit harsh.
First of all, jujube fragrance belongs to the fruity aroma, while there will be no fruity aroma in the aroma of white tea loose tea, because the fruity aroma is the aroma that can only be produced by fermentation to a certain extent.
The pectin substances in the leaves and stems of Shou Mei may be aged to develop a fruity aroma.
Shou Mei alone is not enough, Shou Mei also has to press cakes.
When pressing the cake, the leaves and tea stems of Shou Mei will be squeezed or broken.
The cell wall ruptures, and the cell sap flows out and adheres to the surface of the tea leaves, which allows for more contact with oxygen.
White tea belongs to micro-fermentation, and during the storage process, the white tea cake slowly reacts with oxygen to produce jujube fragrance.
Not every Shou Mei cake will produce jujube fragranceGood quality Shou Mei cakes can be aged after good storage to produce jujube fragrance.
Good quality Shou Mei, thick stems and large leaves, rich in pectin substances.
These are favorable conditions for the production of jujube incense.
This is also the reason why Baihao silver needles and white peonies cannot be aged to produce jujube incense.
After they are old, they are more mainly rice incense, medicinal incense, and aged incense.
And jujube incense is exclusive to Shou Mei.
The reason why it is rare is because even if it is a large-scale pressed Shou Mei cake, good quality tea is a scarce product after all, and the birth conditions of jujube incense are harsh.
Scarcity is expensive, so jujube incense is very popular, and many tea lovers ask for money.
There are also ways to fake jujube incense, but it is not a fake in the traditional sense.
It is not that the white tea cake produces the smell of jujube, but that some smells that are not originally jujube are said to be jujube.
For example, the white tea cake is over-fermented by abnormal means, for example, the production of aged tea.
In the process of piling up tea leaves, exposing them to the sun, and drying them at high temperatures, the fermentation is aggravated in the process of deliberately turning new white tea into old white tea.
After fermentation, it will produce a relatively strong smell, which is falsely called jujube fragrance by some unscrupulous merchants.
And many tea customers who come to admire the jujube fragrance may not have actually smelled the jujube fragrance.
Listening to what the merchant said, and then when he smelled the incense, he could indeed smell a scent, so he mistook this incense for jujube incense.
In fact, I just fell into the trap of the merchant and wasted my money in vain.
Or, a serving of white tea is not stored properly during storage, resulting in moisture.
After being damp, the white tea will slowly deteriorate, and the original aroma will drift away.
The endoplasm of tea will be over-fermented because of contact with water vapor, resulting in a strange taste.
This strange smell is misunderstood as jujube incense, which is why many people say that their loose tea, silver needle cakes, and white peony cakes will have jujube fragrance.
Actually, it's not the jujube incense, it's the tea you saved that has gone bad.
Tea fragrance often needs to rely on the control.
Just as medicinal incense is reminiscent of Chinese herbal medicine, floral fragrance can be associated with all kinds of flowers, not to mention Zongye incense and bamboo leaf incense, which are not uncommon in life.
The aroma in white tea is not fabricated out of thin air, but has a physical basis.
Then jujube incense, naturally you can also find a control.
The jujube fragrance in Shou Mei cake is like the smell of steamed red jujubes, so it is called jujube incense.
This kind of jujube fragrance is different from the aroma you smell when you eat red jujubes.
When you eat red dates, you feel very sweet, and even feel a little tired if you eat too much.
And the jujube fragrance of old white tea is not so sweet, but very fresh.
The smell produced after over-fermentation is very stuffy and a little sour in the middle.
It smells a bit like the smell of candied fruit that I could eat during the Chinese New Year when I was a child.
This smell is naturally not jujube.
The real jujube fragrance is dry, warm, and a little sweet, giving people the feeling of being like water boiled from red dates, sweet.
Jujube incense, can be faked.
However, the trust of tea customers in merchants is also very fragile.
Don't deceive consumers because of profits, which will only make your gains outweigh your losses.
It's the age of the internet, and a lot of times messages are interconnected.
When buying a product, everyone has a habit of reading reviews.
Although today's businesses will take corresponding measures against some bad reviews, there are many customers who are genuine.
I have already been deceived, so I don't want more people to be deceived.
Just like the old man mentioned above, once you understand it, you will be vigilant and suspicious when you do good deeds in the future, instead of being easy to soften when you see an old man.
Many times, when I see some elderly people still selling their vegetables or fruits in the cold wind, I want to do my best to buy more so that the elderly can go home early.
As everyone knows, some people just take advantage of everyone's goodwill to maximize their own interests, and even some vegetables and fruits that have long been spoiled.
Again, before buying a product, it is right to understand first, and to know more.
If it's genuine, at least you can guarantee that you won't be deceived.
If it's fake, you can save yourself a lot of money.
The best of both worlds, why not?
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, column writer, the original innovation of the tea industry ** "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.