Longjing Tea

Longjing tea (also known as dragon well tea) is a traditional Chinese tea, one of the famous green teas, produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, West Lake Longjing village area, and has a history of more than 1,200 years. It is famous for its ‘green colour, lush fragrance, sweet taste, and beautiful shape, and is regarded as the ‘King of Tea’. Our Longjing green tea is made with fine production techniques and strict picking standards, and after brewing, the tea soup is clear and bright, with a high aroma and a sweet and refreshing flavour. Tasting Longjing tea is not only a kind of enjoyment, but also a way to appreciate the long tea culture and exquisite tea-making technology in China. Whether it is for your own consumption or as a gift to friends and relatives, Longjing tea is an excellent choice. 500 g of Longjing dry tea has 36,000 young buds, which is extremely precious.

Longjing Tea Packaging:

Name: Longjing Tea
Ingredients: tea fresh leaves
Taste: Strong bean aroma
Net content: 250 g
Production process: traditional craft
Product: Zhejiang, China
Shelf life: 1 year
Storage: dry, sealed, cool and odourless place for storage

Longjing Tea Production:

Picking Time: Longjing green tea is usually picked at the beginning of April every year, when the season is full of light and rainfall, which is very suitable for the growth of the tea bush, and the quality of the raw materials of the picked tea is also the best.
Picking Methods: Due to the high tenderness of the tea leaves, Longjing's picking is based on the buds, which are basically hand-picked, and the cost is high.
Production process: The tea leaves after picking are carefully made through a number of processes, such as tea harvesting, fixation, rolling, and roasting. Among them, fixation is the key step, destroying the enzyme activity through high temperature, so that the tea leaves remain green, and at the same time, exudes grassy air, forming the tea aroma.

How to Brew Longjing Tea:

Brewing Longjing tea water ratio of 1:50 is appropriate, and the temperature of the tea water is 75-85°C, boiling water to stand for about 4 minutes:

1. Tea Throwing: Use glass cups or covered bowls to put in about 3g of tea leaves;
2. Shake the tea: fill the water to cover the tea surface, shake the teacup until the tea leaves fully percolate;
3. Prepare water: high body kettle, lift up and down to fill water repeatedly 3 times;
4. Tea tasting: Drink for one-third of the time to add water again to make and maintain the concentration of tea.

Longjing Tea Characteristics:

Appearance: China Longjing tea leaves are green and translucent, the leaves are even and glossy, and the buds and leaves are spreading and bright green after brewing.
Aroma: Longjing's aroma is fresh and long-lasting, with a unique bean or tender chestnut fragrance.
Taste: The taste is sweet and savoury, soft and fragrant in the mouth, giving a sense of freshness and nature. The taste is on the fresher and lighter side due to the younger tea green and higher amino acid content.

Longjing Tea Benefits:

Longjing tea contains a variety of vitamins; the body's normal metabolism requires about 60 mg of vitamin C per day. People drink 2-3 cups of Longjing tea per day to meet the body's most vitamin C needs. Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, can be anti-scorbutic, enhance the body's ability to resist, anti-cancer, slow aging effects. The beauty of the efficacy of vitamin C can prevent the muscle elasticity decrease, water reduction, and inhibit the generation of skin melanin.

Longjing tea can purify blood vessels and prevent stroke and heart disease. The catechin component in Longjing tea is always a sad and powerful antioxidant substance, which not only has an anti-cancer effect, but also can inhibit the aging of blood vessels, thus purifying the blood. Longjing tea contains about 15% catechins, and the antioxidant capacity of catechins is 40-100 times more than that of Vitamin C.

In addition, Longjing tea's health effects on the human body include excitement, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, lifting the effects of tobacco and alcohol toxicity, aiding digestion, lowering blood sugar and blood pressure, and anti-radiation effects, among others. Therefore, people often drink Longjing tea, not only for material and spiritual enjoyment but also as an effective fitness and disease prevention method.