Extraordinary quality of Longjing tea has always been a compliment. Ming Gao Lian, said: "West Lake of the spring in order to Dreaming of the Tiger as the most, the two highest mountains, two mountain tea to Longjing is better." Dreaming of the Tiger spring is famous for Longjing tea in Hangzhou than never. "I never Jiaming like beautiful woman." Su Song Dynasty tea also famous Longjing tea leaves of several thousand. Under the South, when Qianlong who had the foot of Lion Peak Longjing Hu Gongmiao of drinking, drinking was full of praise and, therefore, the temple 18 tea called "royal tea" is still vitality. Longjing tea is spring name, the old name for Long-wang, located in more than 1700 years old Longjing Temple on the left. According to legend, when the Ming Dynasty Zhengde years, digging wells, from the bottom of the well dug a big rock shaped like a Brothers Dance, hence the name Longjing.
Ages of several thousand years, on the legend of Longjing tea, the story a lot, so Longjing tea is more full of mystery.
In the past, Longjing is a deserted village. Col, the sparse land scattered with a dozen families. Edge of the village have to take the air leaks between the broken hut, which is home to an old aunt. Old Aunt did children without women, wretched one person, age old, can not go mountain, could not make, the only care of the house behind the old tea 18.
Old Aunt is a good man, though his life's pretty bitter, always a year left some tea, burning pot of tea every day, in front of the arbor hem two benches on the foot of the mountain ridge to spare no effort in the past, when the thirst-quenching pedestrians.
New Year's Eve a year was snowing hard, the number of neighbors have organized a point of stocking up in preparation for New Year. Old Aunt family is poor, migang also fast none, apart from a few jars left inside the old tea, po, nothing else has. But she is still under the old rules, early in the morning together, do a good job on the tea pot, hair stir, sitting Zaoqian making tea. Hu Ting, "Zhi Ya," heard, hut the door was pushed open, and entered an old man, the body covered with snow. Old Aunt stood up to greet busy: "boss Peter Yeah, this mountain snow big, fast-forward through the room to sit."
Shan Shan snow old man who went into the room while the stove-hole Kaohuo one side with old Aunt accosted: "Old Aunt, your pot burning Han things that way?"
"Making tea pot Mile!"
"Today, New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year tomorrow , San Sheng-fu people are busy boil for a short ceremony, how your home making tea then?"
Old Aunt sighed, said: "Well, I isolated the poor old woman ah, do not afford San Sheng-fu Li Gong Shen had to burn pot of tea every day to the passers-by Xinggefangpian."
The old man listened to smiled: "No poor, not poor, you still stood door Baby mile."
Old Aunt heard very strange, Shen Chutou to go out to see if, in addition to gate the next two cool old bench, corner there is a broken stone mortars, breaking a bunch of aging rock where garbage outside, everything is the same, but where's the baby does ?
"Yo, I get how good the white of your baby, you are willing to, sold it to me, I went to Jiaoren to carry." Finished the old man, they braved the snow away. Aunt looked at the old broken stone mortars, thinking, Shijiu so dirty, how to ask someone to move ѽ! The aging junk inside Sheng Bian Ba Pa in the dustpan, the buried behind the house and that the root of 18 flower heads of tea. Went to Longjing Eurya to a bucket of water, the broken stone mortars brush clean, and wash water is also poured down the root of tea in the old head. Stone mortars she get loaded with fresh, that old man with a man come. He went to the door saw them, went so far as loudly exclaimed: "Oh, baby do? Oh, baby do?"
Old Aunt more and more confused, pointing to broken stone mortars, said: "This is - this is not a good arrayed it?"
"Well, you get inside where things go?"
"I put it behind the house down at the head of the tea roots."
Old man Going round to the house, a look at the case, can not help but repeatedly impatient said: "Unfortunately, Unfortunately, this broke the Po gas Shijiu aging in garbage pile on, since you put it buried in the tea plant root, and on the sake of these 18 old tea bar. "He finished speaking, he led people away.
After a New Year's Eve New Year, and soon spring up. This year, Mom was 18 behind the old house, tea, went so far as to give birth to a film thick hemp buds to pale yellowish green, pick the tea, thin, tender and fragrant.
Neighbors, see old Aunt of tea grown so well, we just cut them down, bamboo, collected grain, used the 18 seeds of tea, in the far and near from the hills on the kinds of tea to. Year after year, more and more meetings, more and more the more-wang. Later, Longjing which are planted all over hill and dale with the tea.
Because this area produced thin, tender and fragrant tea, bubble tea, to taste especially since the United States, so "Longjing tea," it became famous everywhere.
Until now, the tea farmers who say that old Aunt of 18 Night at the tea tree behind the house is "Longjing" ancestral mile.
