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West Lake Longjing: West Lake Longjing ranks among the top ten famous teas in China. It has a history of more than 1,200 years. It was listed as a top grade in the Ming Dynasty, and Qing Shunzhi was listed as a tribute. When Qing Emperor Qianlong visited Hangzhou West Lake, he praised Longjing Tea and sealed the 18 tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple in Shifeng Mountain as “Olympic Tea”.

Longjing tea is named after Longjing. Longjing is located in the northwest corner of the West Wengjia Mountain in the West Lake, which is now the Longjing Village. Longjing, formerly known as Longjing, is a circular spring pool. The drought is not dry. The ancients used this spring to communicate with the sea. Among them, there is a dragon. Because it is called Longjing, it is said that Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty used to be alchemy. Longhui Temple, known as Laolongjing, is about 500 meters away from Longjing. It was founded in the second year of Han Dynasty (949 years) after the Five Dynasties. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Shoushengyuan. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Guangfuyuan and Yanen Yanqing Temple. Ming Zhengtong three years (1438) only moved to the well, the temple has been abolished, turned into a tea room. Longjing tea has a long history. It can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty in China. In the Qing Dynasty, it was said that when Emperor Qianlong visited Hangzhou, he once wrote a poem in Tianzhu of Longjing Tea District. The poem was called "Viewing Tea for Songs". West Lake Longjing Tea ranks first with “Lion (Feng), Long (well), Cloud (Hist), Tiger (Run), Mei (Home), and West Lake Longjing Tea is the most. The shape of Longjing tea is straight and sharp, flat and handsome, smooth and uniform, and yellow in color. After brewing, the aroma is high and long-lasting, and the fragrant scent is fragrant; the soup is apricot green, clear and bright, the leaves are green, evenly budded, and the buds are erect, lifelike. Drink tea soup, sorrowful, lingering between teeth, endless aftertaste. At that time, the famous tea Saint Lu Yu, in the world's first tea monograph "Tea Classic", there are records of tea produced by Hangzhou Tianzhu and Lingyin Temple. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the “Baoyun Tea”, “Xianglin Tea” and “Baiyun Tea” produced by the West Lake Mountains have become tribute tea. In the Yuan Dynasty, the quality of Longjing tea was further improved. In the Ming Dynasty, "Qiantang County" contained "tea out of Longjing, made of bean fragrant, sweet and sweet, and different from him." Longjing tea is well known. In the Qing Dynasty, when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he visited the Longjing Tea Area four times to inspect and taste the Longjing tea. He praised the 18 tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple as "Otto Tea". Since then, Longjing tea has become more expensive and famous. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, the Longjing tea area had initially formed its scale. At that time, the "Xianglin Tea" of the Tianzhu Xianglin Cave in Lingyin, the "Baiyun Tea" produced by Shangtianyu Baiyunfeng and the "Baoyun Tea" produced by Baoling Mountain in Geling have been Listed as a tribute. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the martyrdom of the martyrdom of the Northern Song Dynasty returned to the original place. It was also the place where the writers such as Su Dongpo and the literary priests at the foot of the Longfeng Lion Mountain were at the foot of the Shousheng Temple. Su Dongpo had the words "Two New Flags under the Baiyun Peak, and the Green and Long Fresh Valley Rain Spring" praised Longjing Tea. And the handwritten book "Laolongjing" and other plaques, so far still exist in the Shousheng Temple Hugong Temple, the 18th Imperial Tea Garden in the foot of the lion peak at the foot of the rock. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou became a national capital, and tea production has further developed. In the Yuan Dynasty, the tea produced near Longjing began to appear. There was a tea-lover who began to make a tea poem in "Yonglongjing". In the poem: "The dragon is on the well, and the cloud is clear. The Chenggong loves the guests and takes the water." Sin. Sitting in my Zhan Bu, Yu Xiang does not smell. But see the clear in the scoop, the green shadow falls on the tourmaline. Cooking golden buds, after taking the rain, the same two or three sons, three swallows can not bear." Visible at that time Longjing area has a quiet scenery, and there is a good spring tea, so come with tea to enjoy the scenery. In the Ming Dynasty, Longjing tea began to emerge, and its reputation gradually spread far and wide, and began to walk out of the monastery for the ordinary people to drink. Ming Jiajing's "Zhejiang Zhizhi" records: "Hangzhou tea, not as good as Longjing's production, and the fine buds before the rain, take a flag and a shot, especially treasures, not much produced, it should be expensive. "Hangzhou Fuzhi" in the Wanli Year of the Ming Dynasty has "Old Longjing, its real estate tea, which is the best of the two mountains." Wanli Year "Qiantang County" also recorded "tea out of the Longjing, made of bean fragrant, sweet and sweet, and his mountains are different." At this time, Longjing tea has been listed as the famous tea in China. Longjing tea is found in the famous tea records recorded by Huang Yizheng in the Ming Dynasty and the famous teas recorded by Jiang Wenzi, Xu Wenchang. If the Longjing tea in the Ming Dynasty was still between the famous teas, then in the Qing Dynasty, Longjing tea stood at the forefront of the famous tea. The scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Hao Yuxing, took the test of "the name of tea, including the Longjing of Zhejiang, the mustard of Jiangnan, and the Wuyiyun of the sui." Emperor Qianlong went down to Jiangnan six times and came to the Longjing tea area four times to watch tea collection and taste tea. Poetry. The eighteen tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple were also named "Olympic Tea". Since then, Longjing tea has been well-known both at home and abroad, and asked the tea people to continue. Xu Wei, a close-knit person, said: "The green tea produced in each province has few deep-colored ones, but the Longjing of Wuhang, the color deep. The tea is twisted and round everywhere, but the dragon is flat and straight." During the period, the famous Longjing tea became the first of the famous Chinese tea. After the founding of New China, the state actively supported the development of Longjing Tea, which was listed as a national diplomatic gift tea. Under the care of the government, the people in the tea area changed the old-style casseroles to electric cookers, selected new varieties of Longjing tea, promoted advanced cultivation and harvesting techniques, and established the quality standards for Longjing tea, which made the development of Longjing tea embarked on a scientific and standardized development. the way. Therefore, Longjing Tea is not only the value of tea, but also the value of culture and art. It contains deep cultural connotations and historical origins.

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The actual user who is in the place of production and the place of registration should be able to apply for the “West Lake Longjing” certification mark. It includes enterprises and tea farmers who produce and process West Lake Longjing in Xihu, Zhuantang, Shuangpu and left townships (streets). The tea farmers apply collectively in the form of village (social) economic cooperatives or tea professional cooperatives.