Mengding Yellow Buds: the finest yellow tea, produced in Sichuan Mengding Mountain

Tea is the national drink of China and one of the oldest beverages in the world. There are many types of tea, including green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea and yellow tea. Among them, yellow tea is a relatively rare type of tea, which is made on the basis of green tea through a special smothering yellow process. Yellow tea is characterized by its yellow color, elegant aroma and mellow taste, which has the effect of quenching summer heat and thirst, clearing heat and dampness, and strengthening stomach and digestion.

The best of the yellow teas is Mengding Yellow Bud. Mengding yellow bud is one of the bud-shaped yellow tea, produced in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, Mengding Mountain. Cultivation of Mengding tea began in the Western Han Dynasty, a history of two thousand years ago, ancient tributes for the emperors to enjoy, after the establishment of New China was named one of the country's top ten famous teas. Mengding Yellow Buds has a flat and straight shape, uniform buds, tender yellow color, exposed buds, long floral aroma, yellow soup color, bright and transparent turquoise, fresh and mellow taste, and tender yellow buds on the bottom of the leaves.

The origin of Mengding Yellow Bud is the Mengding Mountain in Ya'an, Sichuan Province. Mengding Mountain is located in the western edge of the Sichuan Basin mountains, for the Tibetan Plateau to the Western Sichuan Plain transition zone, known as the "sky leakage" between Ya'an and the famous mountains. Mengding Mountain terrain undulating, rolling mountain ranges, steep mountains. Mengding Mountain has on the Qing, Lingjiao, Vi Luo, well spring, Ganlu and other five tops, also known as the five peaks, a distant view of Mengding Mountain, five peaks abruptly, type like a lotus flower. Mengding Mountain is the earliest place in Chinese history where there are written records of artificial planting of tea, and it is also the origin of tea manufacturing.

The geographical environment of Mengding Mountain provides extremely suitable conditions for the growth of Mengding Yellow Bud. Mengding Mountain has a mild climate, with an average annual temperature of 14-15℃, an average annual precipitation of about 2000 millimeters, more cloudy and rainy days, only about 1000 hours of annual sunshine, and as many as 280-300 days of fog in a year. Rain, fog and clouds are the characteristics of Mengding Mountain. Here all year round hazy smoke and rain, vast clouds and mist, fertile soil, superior environment, making the tea tree growth is both lush and tender green, tea quality is also more excellent.

The picking of Mengding Yellow Buds is also delicate. Picking in the spring equinox, when about ten percent of the buds on the tea tree scales unfold, you can open the garden. Selection of fat buds and buds of one bud and one leaf at the beginning of the show. Requirements buds fat and uniform, per 500 grams of fresh buds 0.8-10,000. Picking strictly do "five not pick", that is, purple buds, pest buds, dew buds, thin buds, hollow buds do not pick. Picked back to the shoots and stalling, timely processing.

The production of Mengding yellow buds is even more delicate. Using the traditional combination of frying and smothering process, first with young buds to kill the green, and then wrapped in straw paper placed on the side of the stove to keep warm and yellow, so that the tea green in the hot and humid environment of natural fermentation, and then do the type, and finally wrapped yellow drying. This made of Meng Ding yellow buds, in order to maintain its color yellow and moist, the golden hairs show, the soup color yellow through the blue, sweet aroma tender, sweet and refreshing characteristics.