Green tree, this is another old tea circle outside the clouds, but the circle is famous for a star old tea series, I believe that many tea lovers' first impression of it is the 99 green tree and its sequel, but in fact, the green tree series has an earlier alpine green tree than the 99 green tree, and the 99 green tree has the same root and origin of a leaf series, which is what good tea?
Alpine green tree and 99 green tree green tree is a common name, usually refers to the Menghai tea factory in the state-run period produced three series of customized tea, of which 99 green tree although the most famous, but not the initiator, the first use of green trees to make a pattern, in fact, is a little-known alpine green tree. There are only two types of tea products in the Alpine Green Tree, and both of them are old materials turned tea, one is made of 87 Alpine Green Tree (produced in 1993, using 1987 raw materials), and the other is 92 Alpine Green Tree (produced in 2000, using 1992 raw materials).
The reason why we want to name these two teas with the time of old materials, rather than the time of production, is mainly because the sense of vintage shown by these two teas is far more than the tea produced in the same year, and the cost performance is very high, which is a good way to drink the old raw tea of Menghai Tea Factory at a lower cost. In addition, because it is a custom tea, the alpine green tree is not only packaged differently (other tea products are basically using the traditional packaging of Yunnan Qizi cake tea), and the specifications of the internal flight are also very different, such as the 87 alpine green tree did not fly inside, only put a small note with information such as the expiration date, factory address, **electric hanging, etc., if it is not stamped with the blue seal of "August 1992", it is estimated that future generations will not be able to figure out its identity.
So, why are the alpine green trees so special? This is to understand the production background of this tea, in that Yunnan Province tea division has not yet been reformed, custom tea is rarely heard of in the year, is the Guangzhou Tea Division commissioned by Hong Kong customers, specially sent people to Yunnan Menghai Tea Factory to customize tea products, there is a story of alpine green trees. Tea lovers who are familiar with the processing of incoming materials may feel that Menghai Tea Factory has an order to come to the door, and it is too late to be happy, in fact, the tea at that time is a national class 1 controlled material that can be exchanged for foreign exchange, and most of them are exported, if they want to sell domestically or across provinces, they need to be agreed by the Yunnan Provincial Tea Division (the full management department of Yunnan Pu'er tea at that time), and issue a "tea transfer order out of the province". And Menghai Tea Factory doesn't want to take it here, one is because the benefits can't fall on their heads, and they may be responsible, and the other is because the raw materials collected are indexed every year.
Guang Tea Division agreed to these requests, but raised two questions: there is no internal flight, but there must be something to prove the identity of this batch of tea, so he printed a long strip of paper printed with the date of production, telegram**, etc., and simply pressed it on the cake and tea surface. It doesn't matter if the tea can't use the Chinese tea trademark, there is nothing on the cotton paper and it doesn't look good, and a pattern needs to be printed, so the art master in the factory drew a green tree pattern to replace it, which is the origin of the iconic green tree.