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Pre-Qingming Tea in Guangdong | Shaoguan: Baimao (White-hair) 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.

Hongshan Town in Renhua County, Shaoguan, is regarded as the major production base of the county's Baimao tea, which is a kind of protected agricultural product certified by Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). At the spring equinox, tea workers are dedicated in picking and processing the 9.27 square kilometers of white-hair tea in the town.

White-hair Tea Plantation is the species bank and the seedling experiment demonstration base for the white-hair tea in Renhua County. Over the past few years, the plantation has committed itself to promoting a newly-bred variety called Danxia No.9. At present, the farmers in the plantation are working to pick the tea leaves and bake them in batches.

Photo: Nanfang Daily

Hongshan White-hair Tea used to be a kind of royal tribute in the Ming Dynasty. Up to now, it has been certified as an organic food by the China Organic Food Certification Center. It has also been included in the National List of Famous, Special and New Agricultural Products. In recent years, Hongshan Town has been working to create a high-end brand named Danxia White-hair Tea. So far, this town has established 19 workshops including tea cooperatives and processing plants, so as to motivate local farmers to increase their incomes.


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