Tieguanyin enjoys a high reputation in China's famous tea. Tieguanyin is not only the name of tea, but also the name of the tea tree variety, because its bone weight is like iron, the appearance is beautiful and contains such as Guanyin, there is a natural orchid fragrance after brewing, the taste is pure, the aroma is rich and lasting, and there is the praise of "seven bubbles with residual fragrance" and "king of oolong tea". Native to Anxi County, Fujian Province, it is often described as "Anxi Tieguanyin".
In the folk of Anxi, there is also a legend about the aged Tieguanyin: in the Qing Dynasty, there was a person named Lin Fulong who had a bad stomach, and one day his stomach was very swollen, he couldn't eat, and it was useless to look for doctors everywhere. The family hurriedly went to the ancestral house to pray for the blessing of the gods, and that night, the forester was enlightened by the immortals when he dreamed outside. The next morning, according to the instructions of the immortal in the dream, the family rummaged through the ancestral house, found the old tea in the corner of the house, and then boiled it for the forester to drink. In addition to legends, many tea farmers in Anxi have the custom of storing tea in clay pots every year, and use aged tea as medicine in case of cold and heat. Aged Tieguanyin not only has the effect of green tea, but also has the effect of treating colds, indigestion, blood pressure and lipids, and diabetes.
Tieguanyin's finished products can be roughly divided into three types: clear fragrance, strong fragrance, and aged fragrance.
Fragrance type Tieguanyin: The taste of the fragrance type is relatively light, the tip of the tongue is slightly sweet, biased towards the modern process method, the color is green, the soup is clear, the aroma is rich, the floral fragrance is obvious, and the taste is mellow. Due to the cold nature of new tea, do not drink too much, otherwise there will be a certain degree of stomach injury and insomnia.
Strong fragrance type Tieguanyin: strong fragrance type has a mellow taste, high aroma, and is relatively sweet, which is a product made by roasting and reprocessing tea fried by traditional technology. The color is dark and bright, the soup color is golden, the aroma is pure, the taste is heavy, relative to the fragrance type, the strong fragrance type Tieguanyin is warm, and has the effects of quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach.
Aged fragrance type Tieguanyin: Aged fragrance type, also known as old tea or ripe tea, is made of strong or light fragrance type Tieguanyin after long-term storage and repeated reprocessing, which is also semi-fermented tea. The color is jet black, the soup is rich, sweet and mellow, and the agarwood is condensed. Its characteristics and taste are close to Pu'er tea, black tea, and dark tea.
The good effect of Tieguanyin
Refreshment. Tieguanyin can refresh the mind and think, and its function is mainly in the caffeine in the tea. Caffeine has the functions of stimulating the central nervous system, enhancing thinking, and improving efficiency. Therefore, after drinking tea, it can break sleep, refresh the mind, remove annoyance, relieve tiredness, clear the mind, enhance thinking, and significantly improve the oral defense ability and the response of mathematical thinking. At the same time, because Tieguanyin contains polyphenols and other compounds, it counteracts the adverse effects of pure caffeine on the human body.
Clear heat and reduce fire. Tea is a good drink to prevent heatstroke and cool down. In the dog days of midsummer, when the hot sun is in the sky and the heat is pressing, drinking a cup of cool Tieguanyin or a cup of hot Tieguanyin, you will feel cool physically and mentally, and relieve the heat. This is because the tea soup contains tea polyphenols, sugars, amino acids, pectin, vitamins and other elements, which moisturize the mouth, so it can play a role in quenching thirst. At the same time, due to the caffeine effect in Tieguanyin, a large amount of energy is dissipated from the pores of the human body.
Prevention and treatment of dental caries. Tooth decay, commonly known as tooth decay, is a common and frequent disease of dentistry. Tieguanyin is rich in fluoride, while the amount of fluoride in general food is very small. About 40% and 80% of the fluoride in Tieguanyin is dissolved in boiling water, which is easy to combine with the calcium in the teeth to form a layer of calcium fluoride on the surface of the teeth, which plays a role in preventing acid and anti-caries.
The anti-arteriosclerotic effect of Tieguanyin.
Tea polyphenols play an important role in human fat metabolism. The human body has high cholesterol and triglyceride content, fat deposition on the inner wall of blood vessels, and the formation of atherotic plaques after the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Tea polyphenols, especially the catechins ECG and EGC in tea polyphenols and their oxidation products theaflavin, help to inhibit this plaque hyperplasia, reduce the formation of fibrinogen with enhanced blood coagulation viscosity, and clear blood coagulation, thereby inhibiting atherosclerosis.
The selection of Tieguanyin
Dried tea granulesThe tighter and more even, the better, the looser the worse;
In terms of color, toFresh and oily is good, dry and gray is secondary。If the color is mixed and the color changes greatly, it means that there is even aged tea mixed with old leaves. Good Tieguanyin, the cord is twisted, with frog heads and dragonfly legs, the color is sand green and oily, and the leaves are covered with hoarfrost.
We can grab a handful of tea, let go of the hand and let it fall, if it jingles, the sound is crisp and pleasant, indicating that the tea leaves are tight and heavy;IfWhen it falls, the sound is hoarse, indicating that the quality is not good enough
A good Tieguanyin has a pure, high-spirited and long-lasting aroma. However, the exaltation here is not a very pungent aroma, but an elegant and rich aroma.
The color of the brewed tea soup is golden, yellow-green or light greenIt is better to be clear and bright, and it is worse to be turbid and dark
Tieguanyin tea soup can not have obvious bitterness, astringency, sourness, green taste, etc. The entrance can be slightly bitter, but it must be dissolved quickly, and at the same time, high-grade Tieguanyin does not allow astringency.
Good Tieguanyin,There is a pronounced soup aromaThe aftertaste is fast and long-lasting, and the tea soup is viscous and full after the entrance of high-grade tea, and the taste is extremely softThere is Guanyin rhyme
A good pot of tea can give people more than a simple cup of tea. Before you are ready to taste a good pot of tea, you need to calm down and prepare the tea, tea utensils, and brew a good pot of tea carefully. Before you know it, your irritable mood will gradually calm down, and the wisps of fragrance will rise as you brew, and the feeling of happiness and satisfaction will also come to you.