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In general, tie guan yin tea we bought is basically a pack of 7 grams of packaging. This kind of packaging use a vacuum compression packing, if the packaging is like that, and you recently (20 days) will finish it, Only need to be placed in the shade, where protected the tea from light. If you want to save the best with a longest time, I suggest you put the tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees, so that can achieve the best results.

However, Tie Guan Yin tea as a beverage, even if it has been dried compressed packing, which does not mean it can be permanently saved. If you wonder enjoy fresh flavor, you’d better place the Tieguanyin tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees right after buying it. Best do not keep it exceeding one year, you’d better finish it in half a year.

For the preservation of Dragon well tea, it generally requires low temperature and vacuum sealing so as to guarantee the color, smelling and flavor of it in a short period. But why it always comes up with that the color, smelling and flavor become not as good as that at the beginning. The reasons are as followed:

1. The drying of tea leaves after fermented. Tea production techniques currently use in the direction toward the light shift fermentation, the tea of Gande is a typical example. In the light fermentation, the tea is easy to reflect the high orchid fragrance and tea water is as well more beautiful (showing the standard green bean water). But if you want the aroma of dried tea leaves to reflect aroma, in general, tea leaves would not be baked so dried, for the leaves must be with some water. This kind of tea should be saved in the place with low temperature and sealed to the effect water makes to leaves. If the tea was much dry, and feel very brittle, and this kind of tea needs a relatively low temperature.

2. Control of tea fermentation degree. Experienced people will fully take the issue of market liquidity and preservation into account in the control of the tea ferment. Therefore, people stay tea’s fragrance by controlling the fermentation degree in tea producing.

It is known by all the people that tea may sober man up and obstruct smoking. The famous sentences “In the while you are drunk, tea is needed if you want to be sobered up” by Scientist Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty have showed us that Chinese people had already recognized the sobering up effect of tea. The ancient people always drive trouble by drinking wine and sober up by drinking tea. The poet Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty was drunk one day, then he though of that Bai Juyi had Six kinds of tea which can sober people up from drunk. So Liu sent someone to change the tea with gifts, which later became a much-told tale of tea. The major component of wine is alcohol and one cup of wine contains 10%-70% alcohol. However, the TP in tie guan yin tea offsets ethanol in wine, so that drinking tea may sober man up.

Tie Guan Yin tea can not only sober people up but also obstruct smoking. Dragon well tea has a phenolic acidic substance, which may settle the nicotine in tobacco and then discharge it out of the body. Meanwhile, caffeine in Tie Guan Yin may promote the liver’s metabolizing ability to the drugs, which can promote blood circulating to discharge the nicotine in blood by peeing so as to reducing even eliminating the side effects nicotine brings. Of course, this effect is not simply due to caffeine, but the result of affecting together with the TP, vitamin C and many other components.

In general, Tie Guan Yin tea we bought is basically a pack of 7 grams of packaging. This kind of packaging use a vacuum compression packing, if the packaging is like that, and you recently (20 days) will finish it, Only need to be placed in the shade, where protected the tea from light. If you want to save the best with a longest time, I suggest you put the tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees, so that can achieve the best results.

However, tie guan yin tea as a beverage, even if it has been dried compressed packing, which does not mean it can be permanently saved. If you wonder enjoy fresh flavor, you’d better place the Tieguanyin tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees right after buying it. Best do not keep it exceeding one year, you’d better finish it in half a year.

For the preservation of Tie Guan Yin tea, it generally requires low temperature and vacuum sealing so as to guarantee the color, smelling and flavor of it in a short period. But why it always comes up with that the color, smelling and flavor become not as good as that at the beginning. The reasons are as followed:

1. The drying of tea leaves after fermented. Tea production techniques currently use in the direction toward the light shift fermentation, the tea of Gande is a typical example. In the light fermentation, the tea is easy to reflect the high orchid fragrance and tea water is as well more beautiful (showing the standard green bean water). But if you want the aroma of dried tea leaves to reflect aroma, in general, tea leaves would not be baked so dried, for the leaves must be with some water. This kind of tea should be saved in the place with low temperature and sealed to the effect water makes to leaves. If the tea was much dry, and feel very brittle, and this kind of tea needs a relatively low temperature.

2. Control of tea fermentation degree. Experienced people will fully take the issue of market liquidity and preservation into account in the control of the Dragon well tea ferment. Therefore, people stay tea’s fragrance by controlling the fermentation degree in tea producing.

According to the personal fancy, people can choose either porcelain or purple clay tea set to brew tie guan yin tea. Since the light ferment tie guan yin tea has been popular recently, which values tea’s fragrance more, we advice you to choose the porcelain tea set (tureen or tea pot). Because they are propitious to emit the aroma of tie guan yin tea. Why not the purple clay tea set? That because of its low density, the holes of the pot will absorb some tea fragrance, and the smelling you get will be less. Certainly, it would be ok for the people who love collecting pots to use the purple clay tea set to brew the tie guan yin tea, only need to “share” some tie guan yin with the pot.

Now take tureen for example to show how to brew tie guan yin tea

1. Take a right amount of tea leaves (usually 7g for one pack) and put them into the tureen, then brew them with boiling water.

2. Scrape the foam with the lid.

3. Pour tea rapidly into a fair mug (The fair mug ensures that every guest can drink the oolong tea with same concentration, same aroma and same color. So it is fair to everybody.). Put a trap valve on the fair mug for filtering the pulverized tea leaves. Since the this step is to wash the tea but not to drink, we’d better rush the tea in and out quickly.

4. Wash the trap valve and tureen with the first tea water in the fair mug.

5. When finished washing, brew the second Dragon well tea with boiling water, then cover the lid.

6. Keep the leaves in water for only 15 seconds then pour tea water into the fair mug. According to personal fancies to adjust the time, overtime if you feel it is wishy-washy and shorten the span if you feel it taste strong.

7. Pour the tea of the fair mug into the tureens to have a taste.

8. Savouring the charm of tie guan yin, then uncover the lid to brew the next tea.

Other Names: Iron Goddess of Mercy, Anxi Tie Guan Yin, Ti Kwan Yin

  One of the legends is like this: In the ancient time, there was a man who was loyal to worship the Kwan-yin. Every day this man respectfully offered Kwan-yin a cup of fresh tea. Once when was offering the tea, the Kwan-yin presented and told the man that there was a divine tea tree in the mountain which he might pick from. So the man trudged and climbed to the mountain and sure enough found the tree, whose leaves twinkling with iron light. Then he transplanted the tree gingerly to his home and took care of it, which was the originator of the  tree.

  Another tale is like this: In the Qianlong Era of the Qing Dynasty, there was a woodman named Weixin in Songlintou county of Anxi. Once when he was cutting firewood, Weixin haply found an outlandish tea tree in the clearance of a mountain beside a Kwan-yin temple. The leaves are shining with green iron light embellished black. Wei then dug the tree up and took it back home and planted the tree in his own yard. Then Wei picked the leaves up and made them into tea and called that tie guan yin tea.

  There are some other tales are simply similar with the two above. The similarity of these legends is that all the Dragon well tea trees are related to Kwan-yin so the tea has a name including the two words “Kwan-yin”. And why people all used the word “tie(iron)”? There are two answers: one is the iron light the tea tree gives in the sunshine; another one is that the tea water presents the iron color when fermented.

2. Fertilization technology in pollution-free tea garden

  A. Commonly used fertilizer in pollution-free tea gardens

  The fertilizer people use in the tee gardens can be divided into the following types: The first category, farm organic fertilizer, composting through fermentation to achieve sound health standards such as manure, compost and sometimes a small amount of fertilizer cakes. The second category of chemical fertilizers are the commonly used fertilizers, such as urea, ammonium sulfate, magnesium phosphate, rock phosphate, superphosphate and potassium sulfate. The fertilizer must be applied into organic fertilizer, and the ratio of organic fertilizer and inorganic nitrogen should better be 1:1. Last fertilizing must be applied within 30d before the next tea, while the last foliar spray must be 20d before tea being picked. The annual fertilizer application rate should not exceed 20% of the total amount of fertilizer. The third category of compound fertilizers are nutrient and easy to transport. People always choose the domestic compound fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium with a ratio of 15%, or the Russia NPK with the ratio of 16% of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The fourth category of commercial organic fertilizer are widely used. The fifth category of fertilizers, if choice 0.2% of zinc sulfate, can increase the fresh leaves nerolidol content and enhance the aroma of Oolong tie guan yin tea.

  B. The technical measure of fertilization

a. Emphasis on the application of basal fertilizer, so that applied early, deep application, and conduct adequately. Applying early refers to the basal fertilizing time should be earlier. Fertilization time should be better in 10d after tea picking in the autumn (winter). The depth of deep fertilizer should be appropriate enhanced and the resistance of tea should be improved to ensure trees go through the winter safely. The mature tea gardens tried to be deep in basal ditch with depth of 25cm or more. In the young tea plantation, fertilizing according to tree ages gradually from shallow to deeper with the general depth more than 15cm. Adequate fertilizing means full of basal fertilizers. Basal fertilizer in pollution-free tea gardens are advocated use the organic fertilizer. Usually in young tea every 667h m 2000 ~ 1500kg manure or organic fertilizer products applied 300kg, with phosphorus, potassium of 25kg separately.

b. Fertilizing according to areas. Tea outputs in spring and autumn is​​good-quality and high-output ratio, because the two seasons are the golden seasons of tea production and also the peak period of fat absorption. But if you want many and fast growth, relying solely on the basal nutrition is not enough, it must be supplemented with fertilizer. Fertilize compound fertilizer 200kg per 667h square meters in four facilities, i.e. spring, summer, heat and autumn and before the 30 ~ 40d mining application is appropriate. The ratio of various types of fertilizer in the total amount differs according to different ages of trees. The young Dragon well tea plantation takes ratio as nitrogen: phosphorus: potassium 2:1 1:1, while the mature garden: 3:1:1.5. Accompany with magnesium, zinc and other trace elements in fertilizer to improve quality.

c. Skillfully fertilizing on the surface of leaves. Spraying fertilizers on the surface on leaves may germinate tea trees and elongate new branches, but meanwhile may affect oolong tea’s quality with low aroma and slight taste by reducing the inclusion of fresh leaves. After spraying, due to the overgrowth of new shoots, some trees causing a high incidence of pests. Therefore, this technology should be master reasonable, covering both quality and quantity. Firstly, people should choose the fertilizer registered by the department of agriculture along with an inspection and registration certificate. Secondly, people may use the nutrient elements that may make early germination and harvest as well as compensate for tea aroma. Thirdly, spray to wet the both sides to play the strong role of back leaves’ absorptive capacity in order to receive better promotion effect.