Tea Tasted in Spring: Mr. He's Putuo Buddha Tea
In 2012, Mr. He, who was making tea in Putuo Mountain, opened a 40-mu tea garden on the mountaintop of Changshan Mountain, north of Dezhi, in the Yaojiawan Reservoir New Tower Community. The tea garden was located on the summit of Zhujiajian and Changshan Mountains, possibly due to the initial advantage. I called this tea garden Zhujiajian Tea Garden. Although the tea garden located in Zhujiajian might be the smallest area of Mr. He's garden, it was a small area.
This is a tea garden in Mr. He's family. This tea garden faces the Dezhi Reservoir.
The tea gardens are located on the mountaintop, distributed on the south and west sides of the mountain. The tea gardens mainly face the new city. The north Zhujiajian is higher, and the other two gradually decrease. The terrain of north-high south-low creates a warm feeling in the sun. It's like a sunny and windy mountain.
This is the southernmost tea garden of Mr. He, facing the new city.
Every spring, when picking tea, I always go to Mr. He's tea garden. Not only is it well-tended, with healthy green life, but the cliffs beside the tea garden have flowers. Added to the new city's south, the islands and the sea, I expect the spring flowers and open sky to show a warm and blue effect. However, in recent years, the luck has not been good. Every time I go to the tea garden, the weather is often foggy in the spring, and the distant sea appears hazy. Even if the flowers beside the tea garden have opened, it's difficult to take a good shot. But I still feel that this is one of the most meaningful tea gardens in my district.
From this angle, you can see the flowers on the left hillside, and the bottom is the new city and the distant sea. It always feels like being in the sea and the clouds.
Mr. He's tea garden is a tea garden cultivated by the 'Jiu Kong Group'. The tea was planted in the 1960s. The altitude of the tea garden is over 300 meters, so the picking is relatively late. Normal years start in the end of March, this year is two days earlier, but still in late March. So for Mr. He's family, the early spring tea is precious, because there are only a few days to harvest and make tea.
Mr. He's early spring Buddha tea.
The tea processing is done by Mr. He's house. There are several processing rooms. Equipped with processing equipment suitable for small tea gardens, a 40-inch withering machine, a three-bucket name-tea drying machine, two small rolling machines, five electric frying pots, and a fragrance machine. Mr. He has been making tea in Putuo Mountain, so the craftsmanship is traditional Putuo Buddha tea craftsmanship. Perhaps it is the habit of making tea in the past, Mr. He's tea adheres to the principle of Putuo Buddha tea 'like a snail and not a snail, like a brow and not a brow'. For this understanding, we can judge the state of tea leaves in the dried tea, such as the green tea craftsmanship mainly uses the snail method, the tea leaves are floating leaves, often the tea leaves are separated from the tea, forming tea leaf clumps; Brow tea is like a brow, like a Mao Feng body, the tea leaves are attached to the tea buds, and the Putuo Buddha tea is between the floating leaf and the tight leaf. And for the control of the tea leaf manual picking,
The manual steaming and picking process,
Mr. He is very demanding about the raw materials of his tea. Every year he hires about ten people to pick one bud and one leaf. But the 40-mu tea garden always wastes a lot of fresh leaves. I once suggested him to pick single buds, but he believed that Putuo Buddha tea is best with one bud and one leaf. I always think that Mr. He is the best in my district for making manual Putuo Buddha tea, and the largest feature of this tea field is the participation of family members. The whole family grows tea and makes tea, which is related to the family's reputation and income. It's all done to the best,
After seeing such dried tea, you should have a certain impression of 'like a snail and not a snail, like a brow and not a brow'. If you've seen green tea and yellow mountain Mao Feng, you'll have a better impression,
At the end of March, Mr. He brought me his early spring Buddha tea. The dried tea is slightly floating, curved but not broken and mixed, with a vibrant green with a touch of pale yellow. This explains the principle of Putuo Buddha tea 'like a snail and not a snail, like a brow and not a brow'. The tea soup is pale green, due to the addition of tea leaves, slightly brighter and heavier. What I feel good about is the aroma of the tea, which has a delicate fragrance of jasmine. Later, when I met Mr. Huang Fang Huan old man, I talked about this floral fragrance. Because Mr. Huang Fang Huan old man is very fond of the fragrance of orchids cultivated by the Jiu Kong Group, whoever can make tea with this fragrance is considered to be a good manager, when picking, the weather and processing are all right, it's just a good chance, sometimes you have to try a cup,
The characteristics of Buddha tea are that the shape is not beautiful after brewing, but the advantage is the taste is enhanced.
The tea soup is slightly pale, and the tea leaves make it slightly turbid, mainly because of the tea leaves.
From the tea leaves in the dried tea, you can see that Mr. He is still very persistent in picking one bud and one leaf, and he can peel the leaves from the buds, making the dried tea more visible and the taste more fresh and flavorful after brewing.
For those who like traditional Putuo Buddha tea, I think Mr. He's tea can give you a deeper understanding of Putuo Buddha tea. Mr. He's tea comes from the valley between Dezhi Mountains, and it's a faithful inheritance of Putuo Buddha tea manual craftsmanship. The change of location is beneficial for tea drinkers.
Author Introduction: Qiu Lijiang, Putuo District Agricultural Technology Extension Expert, Senior Horticulturalist, Level II Tea Judge, Uuk Fruit Orchard Creative
