About Kaihua Longding tea

Qixi Township Baiyun Mountain is blocked by clouds all year round, and there is a tea garden at the top, which the locals say is guarded by a coiled dragon, and the tea trees are nourished by it, so it is named "Longding". Kaihua Longding tea is produced from an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level, and is a typical high mountain green tea, which was already listed as a tribute as early as the Ming Dynasty. There are many wild orchids and other plants in Baiyun Mountain, which play a good role in forming the unique aroma of Kaihua Longding.

Zhejiang Kaihua County is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. According to "Kaihua County" records: "Ming Chongzhen four years, the soil tribute one: bud tea four pounds." This is the earliest tribute tea records in Kaihua. It says that whenever the eve of Qingming, Kaihua Longding tea was sent to the capital by fast horse flying boat, for the royal family to drink. When the Kaihua Longding into the capital, to be recorded first, and then will be the emperor's decision, what level of concubines, officials each share how much to give, absolutely can not exceed the rules. The remaining small amount of tribute tea would be given to the ministers by the emperor as a precious gift at the time of celebration.