West Lake Dragon Well Tea/ Longjing Tea ? Food and Drinks

Green tea can protect our teeth. Cao Xueqin wrote in his great book, A Dream in the Red Mansions, that the people lived in the Jia mansion were accustomed to rinse their mouth with tea after eating up. Besides, Su Dongpo had also recorded that after each meal, he would gargle with lower-second class tea in order to harden his teeth though he didn?t know that it was fluorin that protected his teeth.

? In a flash, summer comes. Green tea is our best choice to drink in the excess hot summer days. When I was a child, I saw my elders often have a cup of tea in the afternoon, in the hope that the tea could clear summer-heat and refresh themselves. We may as well store the tea infusion in the fridge, which will be no less tasty.

? ??Old tea luck? is the name of a program for public good conducted by the tea business in Zhejiang province.

The sub-association of the old tea luck is specially providing free service and cultural, scientific and technological information for the old tea lovers, the aged experts and the old leaders.

?West Lake Dragon Well tea has been always ranked in accordance with the order of ?Lion peak?, ?Dragon Well?, ?Yunqi?, ?Hupao? and ?Meijiawu?, among which the west lake Dragon Well tea is the best.When Dragon Well tea leaves are being infused, the shoots are all floating upright; tea soup is clear and cool with rich aroma scattering all around. The tea shoots with one bud and one leave are rated as superior tea.Dragon Well tea leaves are flat, straight, sharp and smooth, of uniform sizes and in green color.

When being brewed, its fragrance is rich and lasting as aromatic as orchid; tea liquor is almond green, clear and bright; tea dregs are light green, resembling flowers, with all the tea shoots upright and true to life.Enjoying the tea can refresh oneself. Besides, the aroma and the sweet aftertaste will linger in your mouth for a long time.

Upper dropping:

1. Prepare a transparent glass(here the one we use is 200 ml.), pour certain boiled water at 80 to 85? into it and drop about 5g longjing tea.

2. Leave the glass alone, and enjoy the coquettish gestures of the tea leaves which are gradually sinking one after another.

3. Now you can see the tea leaves are increasingly open in the glass, with some tea leaves floating and some sinking; the tea soup is bright and green.

?Dropping the tea when there is half a glass of water :

1. Get ready a transparent glass (here the glass we use is 200 ml). First, pour about one third hot water at 80 to 85? into the glass; then, add 5g Dragon Well tea leaves into it and wait for them slowly unfolding.

2. When all the tea leaves are open, add more water into the glass till it is almost full.

3. Now you can enjoy the tea. When there is only one third water in the cup, you should refill it.

Bottom dropping:

1. Fetch a porcelain cup with a lid (here the one we use is 150 ml). Warm it before dropping a certain amount of tea.

2. Pour a little hot water at 80 to 85? into the cup.

3. Carry up the cup and gently shake it to wet all the tea leaves and get them naturally open.

4. As soon as the tea leaves are open, add more water into the cup till it is nearly full.

5. Wait for the extractum coming out.

6. Stir the tea soup with the lid to make the tea extractum well-distributed.

7. Now you can pour the tea soup into smaller cups to appreciate.

? The functions of green tea:

1. Anti-aging

The anti-oxidants in green tea can help to resist aging.If the metabolism in human body is peroxided, a large number of free radicals will be produced, which speeds up aging and cause cell injury. SOD (superoxide dismutase) is a free-radical scavenger that can effectively eliminate excess free-radicals and prevent them from doing damage to human body.The catechin in green tea can significantly activate SOD and remove free-radicals.

2. Anti-bacteria

Research findings show that catechin in green tea can inhibit the reproduction of disease-causing bacteria, but it won?t affect the production of beneficial bacteria in intestines. As a result, green tea is able to stabilize the digestive system. ?

Drinking green tea for a long time can reduce blood sugar, blood fat and blood pressure. Thus,? the possibility is minimized for people to suffer coronary and heart diseases.

3. Green tea can reduce blood fat

Research on animals indicates that catechin in green tea can the content of CHO, free cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride in blood plasma, and can increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol at the same time. Experiments on human prove that the platelet aggregation is inhibited and the incidence of atherolsclerosis is reduced. Green tea contains flavonols, which are antioxidant, and can prevent blood clots and platelet clups and reduce cardiovascular disease.

4. Loosing weight and reducing fat

There is catechin in green tea. After a series of reaction, it can activate protein kinase and triglyceride lipase, which in turn can reduce the accumulation of fat cells and finally achieve the purpose of becoming slim.

5. Anti-dental decay and clear oral malodor.

Green tea contains florin, the catechin in which can inhibit cariogenic bacteria and reduce the plaque and perodontitis.Tannin, in green tea, is bactericidal, which is able to stop the food residue to produce bacteria, so it is effective in preventing malodor.

6. Anti-cancer

Green tea can inhibit some cancers, however, its principles are in the deduction stage.

7. Whitening and anti-UV radiation

?From the experiments on animals, experts know that the catechins in green tea can resist skin cancer caused by UV-B radiation.

8. Green tea can improve digestion.

Dragon Well tea is named after the Dragon Well. According to its producing areas, Dragon well tea? can be divided into ?Lion?, ?Dragon?, ?Yun?, and ?Hu?, which respectively refer to the Lion Peak, Dragon Well village, Yunqi village and Hupao village.? Dragon Well is located at the foot northwest of the Wengjia Moutain on the west of the West Lake, which is now the Dragon Well village.Dragon Well was known as Dragon Water, which was a round spring pool. Even when there was a severe drought, water still flew out from it, making the ancient people consider that the Well was connected with sea in which there was a dragon. Therefore, it got its name as Dragon Well. It was said that Ge Hong, who lived in the Jin Dynasty, once refined active substances here. About 500 meters away from the Dragon Well there was the Dragon Well Temple in Luohuiwu village, which used to be called the old Dragon Well, and was built in 949 with its former name as Kanjing Institute. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed as Shousheng institute, in the Southern Song Dynasty it was called as ?Guangfu institute ? and ?Yan?enyanqing Temple? successively. It was not until 1438 that the Temple was transferred to near Dragon Well. Now it has been demolished and rebuilt as a tea house.

The tea sold by us is mainly pre-Qingming longjing, which is picked before Qingming Festival. The tea collected between Qingming Festival and the Grain Rain is called Yuqian Dragon Well tea. There is a saying goes that the pre-Qingming Dragon Well tea is superfine and the pre-Qingming Dragon Well tea is as precious as treasure.In the past, Dragon Well tea was classified into 8 grades according to its picking dates and the degree of its tenderness, including lotus, sparrow-tongue, superior, pre-Qingming, Yuqian, early-spring, mid-spring and grown-up Dragon Well tea. Now, it is divided into 11 grades, namely, superior, and 1 down to 10.

Source: http://www.sanadigerestaurant.com/2012/08/12/west-lake-dragon-well-tea-longjing-tea/

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