Green tea Taiping Houkui

If tea is said to have “two leaves hugging a bud”, then, apparently, they mean Taiping Houkui tea. This green tea from the eastern Chinese province of Anhui has a long history of cultivation. Long before the accession to the throne of the monarchs of the Ming Dynasty, tea was cultivated in eastern China.

During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, a well-known tea grower grew a new variety of tea, which he called Kui-jiang, and he himself received the name Hou-kui. This variety of tea is very whimsical to the conditions of collection, and the rules for collecting fresh tea have been strictly observed for centuries. Only on a clear day and only on certain plantations - these are the strict rules of tea cultivation.

The uniqueness of this variety is that all the buds of the tea bush are the same size. In addition, two leaves that surround the kidney should also correspond to this size. Tea is picked in the morning, sorted in the afternoon, and tea is ready in the evening. Taiping Houkui tea is produced in minimal quantities, which makes it one of the most expensive and unique teas in the world.

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