Fuliang Kung Fu Black Tea Making Technique

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Fuliang Gongfu Black Tea Making Technique (Second Batch Provincial Level) Yantai Village Tianxiang Tea House Gongfu Black Tea Making Technique has been inherited and improved with the development of black tea production. Yantai Village is a natural village located in the northeast of Fuliang County. It is adjacent to Qimen County, Anhui Province on the east, north and west sides. The village is surrounded by overlapping mountains and dense forests. Its terrain, landforms, good climate and soil are most suitable for tea planting. According to data, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 4,000 acres of high-quality tea gardens here, which provided sufficient raw materials for the production and processing of black tea here, making the tea production here prosperous for more than 100 years. Its production and processing technology level was second to none in the entire Qi black tea area at that time. Yantai Tianxiang Tea House Gongfu Black Tea Making Technique has formed its unique advanced nature with its originality, scientific nature and rigorousness of technical procedures, and has made outstanding contributions to promoting the improvement of the level of black tea production technology. Originality of the technique: In terms of withering method, they changed the traditional "single withering" to "complex withering" according to the local spring climate law to ensure that the fresh leaves of the day completed the withering process; in terms of rolling method, they changed the hand rolling method to the foot rolling method to avoid the defects of difficult formation of strips and loose strips due to insufficient wrist strength. Scientificity of the technique: They summarized a set of scientific tea rolling methods from production practice, that is, light and heavy and slow and fast and slow shaking three times to get ideal strips. Rigorousness of the scale of the technique: From the collection of fresh tea picked by tea pickers to the packaging of finished tea, each process has strict requirements, strict control, and meticulousness. It can be seen that the handmade craftsmanship of Gongfu black tea in Yantai Village was in a leading position at the time. Therefore, it won the gold medal at the first Panama World Expo in 1915.

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