丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Born in the south of Fuzhou, the south of the antarctic, there are eight or nine months of the year, which is summer, and the rest is autumn.
No winter, no spring.
It's like the temperature of these two days, yesterday 27, today 30, tomorrow 24.
When it gets hot, it's exactly like summer, and everyone is eager to put on a short-sleeved skirt or put on a swimsuit and swim back and forth in the pool.
There is no spring for us to make a transition, most of the time, overnight into summer.
And that border between spring and summer is gu rain.
Before the valley rain, it seems that it is still cold in spring, and after the valley rain, I am afraid that I will have to turn on the air conditioner at night to sleep.
Xiaolou listened to the spring rain one night, and sold apricot blossoms in the deep alleys of the Ming Dynasty.
Spring rain shocks the spring valley days, summer is full of summer and summer are connected. After the valley rain, LiXia is coming.
So after the Valley Rain Festival, it is the tail of spring.
The kind of warmth and dampness, the kind of flowers blooming, the kind of spring that even the air is full of, is the valley rain season, left in our memory, the deepest imprint.
In this special season of spring and summer, we, in the mountains, pick white tea.
Gu Yu Tea.
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White tea is the simplest tea in the six major tea categories.
A simple process can retain enough innate nutrients for white tea.
Similarly, the simple process also determines that white tea is more optimistic than other teas, and it is more able to preserve the phenological flavor of a special weather and a special festival.
For example, Qingming. For example, Gu Yu.
During the rainy season, the temperature during the day is higher, and the temperature at night is also increasing day by day. Although it is still cold in spring, it is no more frost than before.
Even the sun has become feminine and affectionate.
Under such climatic conditions, white tea trees, the sunshine time during the day is longer, the intensity of sunlight is increased, and more photosynthesis can be carried out and more organic matter is generated.
At night, there is no light, then strengthen the respiration, convert the organic matter into energy substances, and supply the tea plant for growth and development.
This has formed a situation of "suddenly like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of trees and pear blossoms".
In the spring, when the metabolism is vigorous and the development is vigorous, it is very normal for white tea to look the same overnight.
This forms the salient feature of Guyu Festival White Tea - the aroma is quiet like white peony, and the soup is clear and moist, gentle and supple.
It's like "clear lotus drops".
Originally the body of Shoumei, but gave birth to the style of white peony, this valley rain tea, really live up to the reputation of the festival tea.
Just give it one of my favorite poems about spring scenes:
The lonely and empty garden is late in spring, and the pear blossoms are full of flowers and do not open the door.
【2020 Guyu Tea Tasting Notes】
Dry Tea:
The branches and leaves are extremely long and picky, the leaves are long, and the stems are also long, like a northern beauty with legs two meters and eight meters long, heroic and sassy, long and tall.
Due to the seasons, the leaves do not have a great open range, they are converged, and they are very close to the stem and bud head.
Also because of the season, the weather is not hot, especially it is cold in the spring, the hair is slow, the color of the leaves, showing a slightly yellowish green, on the color card, as if called bamboo green.
The aroma is extremely dry and fragrant. It is a kind of grass and wood fragrance like a sun-dried herb.
Touching the hand, the dryness is also extremely dry, and when you gently pinch the leaf, the delicate leaf is broken in the palm of your hand - a little bit of green mushroom-like residue - as if "crushing the peach blossoms is red all over the ground, and the jade mountain is poured down and it is difficult to help".
Cover incense:
The top note is a refreshing bamboo leaf fragrance that comes to the nose at the moment of opening the lid.
The heart note is a fresh and slightly sweet acacia floral fragrance. The lush smell of acacia flowers, after a flash of bamboo leaf incense, dominated the world of cover incense and continued to dominate the screen. After all, it has become the most lingering shadow in our spring dreams.
The tail note, after the lid has cooled, has a slight sweetness, a silky coolness, and quietly lingers.
Accompanied by the fragrance of the lush spring, it is very much in line with the warm and cold weather characteristics of the Valley Rain Festival: the sun is shining during the day and the spring cold is steep at night.
Soup:
The first few flushes of soup are crystal white jade. As if the finest jade, cut open, that lustrous and flawless feeling.
The soup after four flushes is a faint goose yellow.
There are fine pekoe like spring rain, floating in the soup water, floating again, facing the sun, shining like the sand of the Ganges.
The feeling of the soup in the mouth is soft, smooth, ghostly, clean and fresh. The water is filled with a light floral fragrance, as if the peach blossoms of the mountain temple began to bloom in April, and in the empty mountain spring, there are occasional petals that mistakenly enter the water, waving a ripple of fragrance.
The tea soup is not thick, not thick, extremely young, extremely tender. It is the man with the apricot blossoms in Wei Zhuang's "Youth Tour", fresh clothes and angry horses, and Shaohua is just right.
Take a sip of tea soup, the light floral fragrance is swirling around, only to feel the tongue pouting, delicate and beautiful.
Originally the figure of Shou Mei, it soaked up the elegance and purity of the peony. The floral fragrance of this Guyu tea is extremely advanced, with the style of peony, the wind of peony, and the grace of hibiscus.
The valley rain has passed, and summer has arrived.
The lonely and empty garden is late in spring, and the pear blossoms are full of flowers, and the door is not opened.
【Afterword】
In the first half of the year, when picking guyu tea, Master S said that the amount was not much.
Ah Luo went up the mountain to live broadcast, half a day, came down and said to me, this year's spring shou eyebrows are not green enough?
I went up to look at it, and sure enough, Gu Yu's spring shoumei on that day actually looked like the "white chicken crown" in Wuyi Rock Tea- a tender green goose yellow, weak willow support wind.
I took a handful and took it to the factory to find Master S, who was going through his silver needles, and as soon as he looked up, I was happy - his whole person became Santa Claus, hair, eyebrows, beard, cheeks, all white - this is the magic of alpine white tea, no more and more dense and light, flying around as soon as he moves.
Show him the freshly picked Gu Yu Tea Qing, and he said that this year's Gu Yu is this color, which is different from previous years.
『Why?』 Question baby Li Twist rushed to ask.
Master S said, it is cold in the spring, the weather is too cold, the tea trees are not hairy, you still raise these for several days before they started. This year, the amount of spring tea in our piece is not as good as in previous years.
After Li Mahua listened, he hurriedly went up the mountain, pulled a bamboo basket, and said that he wanted to help pick more Gu Yuqing, just good sunshine, can make a batch of sun tea.
Well, as far as her technique is concerned, forget it. The little fairy went up, wrestled left and right, and in a few moments took down two large baskets.
However, man is always stronger than Providence.
In the end, the output is still less.
Fortunately, the sky is beautiful, and it is sunny and cloudy for several consecutive days, which has made this batch of sunshine valley rain tea.
Fulfilled my desire to gather every solar term tea.
Just like Sister Bao's cold incense pills, although the formula was cumbersome, it happened that in the past year or two, The Heavenly Gong was beautiful, and it was all gathered.
Today, when I took out this 2020 Guyu tea that had been sealed for half a year and drank it again, I actually found that its aroma was quite similar to that of cold incense pills.
The floral fragrance is lonely and cold, and the cold is lush.
Ren is ruthless and moving.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.