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Chinese Teas Flashcards

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Yin Zhen=

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Silver Needle

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Great White=

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Da Bai - tea tree family- Cultivars of Silver Needle White tea

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PAI MU TAN or BAI MU DAN means

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White Peony

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4
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Gunpowder

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Green tea from Zhejiang province

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5
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What green tea was introduced into Taiwan during 19th century?

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Gunpowder

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6
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Describe Gunpowder tea and manufacturing

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Old tea style -Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Export tea - stored well on long ocean voyages
Green tea: Withered, steamed, rolled, dried.
Shiny pellets

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Zhucha - Chinese name- Pearl tea refers to what type of tea?

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Gunpowder

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Mao Feng meaning

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Fur Peak- describes the shape and appearance of the processed tea leaves - or Yellow mountain Hair. Contains new unopened tea buds, covered in white hair, and 1st & 2nd leaf

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9
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Grown in China’s Anhui province and known as Yellow Mountain Hair Tip

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Mao Feng

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Mao Feng- Green Tea. What is the bud and one leaf called:

  • Flagged Spear
  • Green Snail
  • Sparrow Tongue
  • Hair Point
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Flagged spear (qichiang)- perfectly formed leaf, straight and sturdy leaves

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What is the Mao Feng legend of why the Huang Shan Mao Feng tea area is always moist and humid, and lush all year round?

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Young scholar and woman fell in love- Landowner wanted her. Forced girl’s parents (power, money) to make her marry him. Night before wedding she snuck away to scholars house and found him killed by landowner. She cried uncontrollably until she became the rain, scholar body became a tea tree.

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12
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Mao Jian literally means=

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hair point. It is slightly curled whereas Mao Feng is pointed.

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Mao Jian green tea is from which Chinese province?

  • Anhui
  • Yunnan
  • Henan
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Henan. Harvested in spring and fall .

One bud and 1-2 leaves.- Processed with addition of smoke.

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What is the Mao Jian legend?

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Tea came from heaven and 9 fairies brought tea down to earth. When you brew the tea you will see the image of 9 fairies dancing in steam.

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15
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Pi Lo Chun =

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Green Snail Spring- one of China’s top 10 teas

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16
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What is known as Astounding Fragrance?

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Pi Lo Chun green tea

Bud and half unfurled leaf- Sparrow’s tongue- or snail like shape.

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What is the Pi Lo Chun legend?

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Tea pluckers stuffed extra tea leaves in tunics to carry more and heat from body infused the leaves and gave off an astounding fragrance.
Processing- leaves roasted not steamed to stop oxidation.

18
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Which tea bushes are located amongst fruit trees- plum, peach, apricots?

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Pi Lo Chun- gives light apricot fruit taste and aroma

19
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Dragon well =

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Lung Ching- Lung Ching in Zhejiang province

One of 10 famous teas

20
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why is Lung Ching called Dragon Well ?

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Legend - tea named after village which got its name from Taoist priest in 250 AD. He told villagers they could end drought by praying to a dragon who lived in a nearby well. When they did this, rains came and named Dragon Well, as well as the monastery.

21
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What is the finest grade of tea- Flagged spear or Sparrow’s Tongue?

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  1. Flagged Spear- first flush with only one leaf and a bud.

2. Sparrow’s Tongue- bud and 2 leaves

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What are Lung Ching - Dragon Well’s 4 uniques

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  1. Green colour (pale yellow- green)
  2. Mellow taste- lingering aftertaste
  3. Aroma
  4. Beautiful shape
23
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How is Dragon well / Long Jing green tea processed?

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leaves pan-fired in woks several times (different times / heating temps.) and not rolled for flat appearance. No other processing.

24
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How is Jasmine teas produced?

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leaf plucked in spring and stored until early summer when jasmine blooms appear.
Blossoms picked in morning then added to tea- so they open at night and fragrance is absorbed by the tea. Process repeated up to 10 x; flowers left or removed.
Youngest leaves hand rolled into Dragon Pearls- tears.

25
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Ti Kuan Yin is grown where?

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Anxi, Fujian, and Nantou, Taiwan- top 10 famous teas (Oolong)

26
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Who is Ti Kuan Yin named after?

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Goddess of Mercy- Bodhisattva Avalllokitesvara

27
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What are the 2 legends of Ti Kuan Yin Oolong tea?

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  1. Wei- poor farmer told in dream from Compassionate One- where to find tea sprout- he nurtured it and region has prospered.
  2. Wang- scholar found tea in Xiping and made tea from it, offered to Emperor. Scholar called it after place grown/found it.
28
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Dragon Well- or Lung Ching- what did Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong do?

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So pleased with aroma and taste- awarded 18 bushes of Lung Ching outside temple the status of Imperial Tea.

29
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what tea was awarded the status of Imperial Tea?

  • Mao Feng
  • Lapsang Souchong
  • Mao Jian
  • Pi Lo Chun
  • Lung Ching / Dragonwell
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Lung Ching or DragonWell

30
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how is Ti Kuan Yin processed?

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Complex process: Plucking, sun Withering, Cooling, Tossing, Withering- some oxidation, Fixation, Rolling, Drying
Best prepared if Gong Fu style

31
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Keemun was named after ____________________

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Qimen county, Anhui province where is originated.

32
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What is the name of the Black tea grown in Anhui province? Why special?

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Keemun tea- Qimen region only grew / produced green tea then civil officer showed them how to use same leaves to produce black fully oxidized tea like neighboring country- India?

33
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What is the best grade of Keemun tea ?

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Hao Ya- buds only; from small village of Da Wu
2nd best- bud and 2-3 leaves; Keemun Mao Feng

Keemun dry leaf very black and rolled very thin tight strips

34
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What black tea is withered over pinewood or cypress fires?

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Lapsang Souchong

35
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What does Souchong mean in Fukinese?

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Subvariety (xiao zhong)- sub variety of black teas from Wuyi mountains in Fujian

36
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Where was Lapsang Souchong produced- originally?

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Fujian province- now other southern prov. in China.

37
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What is the legend of Lapsang Souchong regarding the smoky character?

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Qing Dynasty: army passing through made camp in a tea factory and stopped all work, leaving piles of unprocessed green leaves. When army left, tea workers tried to speed up drying by using pinewood fires to dry leaves quickly. This became very popular.

38
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what is the current processing steps of Lapsang Souchong?

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  • withering over fires of pinewood or cypress
  • pan fired and rolled
  • placed in wooden barrels and covered in cloth to further oxidize
  • more pan frying and rolling
  • hung over smoking pine fires to dry and absorb smoky aroma

black, glossy leaves- dark reddish liquor

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