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Pre-Qingming Tea in Guangdong | Chaozhou: Fenghuang Dancong Tea

Traditionally, Chinese high-value tea made from the very first tea sprouts in Spring that should be picked before the Qingming Festival, which falls on April 5 this year. Recently, the Spring harvest season for tea has come across Guangdong.

Fenghuang Dancong Tea is renowned as one of the specialties of Chaozhou's Chao'an District. It is also a kind of protected agricultural product certified by PGI. It originates from Fenghuang Town, which is named after the local Fenghuang Mountain. Fengniaoji Mountain, the highest mountain in the town with an altitude of 1,498 meters, serves as the origin of the Fenghuang Dancong Tea and it's also a professional town for tea production. So far, the tea planting area of Fenghuang Town has reached 46.7 square kilometers, imputing strong momentum to the town's economy.

According to a local tea worker, the picking period of the Fenghuang Dancong Tea ranges about 50 days. Currently, they are mainly picking those tea leaves planted in the low-altitude mountains, while the harvest season of those planted in high-altitude mountains will start at the end of March. "We need to make full use of every minute to pick the spring tea; otherwise, the tender shoots will ripen, hence the quality of the processed tea will be impacted, and so will our incomes," said the tea worker. By virtue of favorable climatic conditions, the tea leaves are thriving. Therefore, if the tea workers can harvest the tea leaves in time, a bumper harvest with high quality will be close at hand.

Photo: Nanfang Daily

The tea leaves picked from the plantation need to be placed under the warm sunshine to dehydrate. Later on, a series of steps, such as drying and frying, await them to be processed into primary teas. In the following period, the primary teas will be further processed by baking and cooling to become more fragrant. Fenghuang Dancong Tea has been made available for sale.


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