Mengding Yellow Bud is produced in Ya’an Mengding Mountain, Sichuan Province, belonging to the six basic tea categories of yellow tea, micro-fermented tea, it is not only a representative of the yellow tea category, in the yellow tea category it is also a benchmark and classic.
At present, the known Meng Ding yellow bud process are: a kill the green, two packets of yellow, seven days boring, a stall, three re-frying, a baking, and then fragrance. Among them, killing and smothering yellow is the core technology of Meng Ding Huangtao, which is also the most basic two principles of Meng Ding Huangtao process.
Mengding Huangya’s greening is different from other teas, including the time to cool the tea, the temperature of the greening, and the time to leave the pot. The process of smothering the yellow is very delicate, how to make the finished product color yellow and bright, if there is no rich experience in the production, basically impossible to achieve.
“In my big brothers that era after five zero, they make Meng Ding yellow bud, the requirements of the color and lustre they have their own method of control, in that era, generally like to smoke a kind of paper cigarettes called ‘gold five cattle’, there is a layer of tin foil paper for the golden yellow, they use this golden yellow tin foil paper to Than color, try to make Meng Ding Huangtao this golden yellow, if they can reach this color, they are very happy and satisfied”.
Why must the yellow color be pursued in the production of Mengding Huangya?
Sichuan Mengding yellow bud provincial non-legacy representative inheritor Zeng Zhidong said, in China’s feudal society, yellow is the emperor’s special color, only the royal family can use. Mengding Mountain tea from the Tang Dynasty tribute to the royal family, in order to cater to the emperor’s preferences, the tea artisans to make Mengding yellow buds made of yellow color, and take into account its nutritional value and taste. This is also the Mengding Mountain tea masters from generation to generation, has been the pursuit and visit the road of tea, must have the spirit of craftsmen, and Mengding yellow buds have a love of special feelings, in order to always insist on doing.
“A lot of inspiration comes from life, from the countryside, and the working people are very wise, as the old saying goes: the lower down people have the wisdom of the upper up”.
In order to produce superior quality Mengding Yellow Bud, in addition to the process, excellent tea green is also essential. As the saying goes, “a skillful woman can’t cook without rice”, without good raw materials, even if the skill of the tea master, can’t make high-quality Mengding yellow bud.
For the selection of tea green, “Mengding yellow bud tea green, must be derived from the Mengding Mountain elevation of 800 meters to 1450 meters above sea level between the old Sichuan tea group species and the No. 9 tea, Ya’an produced Mengding yellow bud are mostly used in the two varieties of tea trees, its picking time is generally in the middle of March or so, the cycle of picking is usually about seven days, very short, so the production of Very little, so relatively expensive. Generally there will be no tea master, with summer and fall tea to do yellow bud.”
Meng Ding yellow bud is characterized by three yellow, three incense, three sweet, then what is “three yellow, three incense, three sweet”?
“Three yellow is dry tea yellow, soup color yellow, yellow leaf bottom; three fragrance is dry tea, tea soup fragrance, cup bottom fragrance; three sweet is smell sweet, drink sweet, back to mouth sweet. In addition to these three characteristics, Meng Ding Huangya appearance and inner quality is also very distinctive, the appearance of flat and straight, full buds, all buds Phi Hao, the inner quality of the sweet aroma, smooth and full, soup yellow and turquoise, taste dry and mellow, the bottom of the leaf is tender and yellow, not only with the mellow and full of full-fermented tea, but also without losing the green tea of the fresh, as if doing things in general, just the right amount of fire, not biased, not too much and not too little, to stick to the ends of its own to take which! ”
Mengding Yellow Bud is a very mild and moderate special tea through the special processing technology, which not only weakens the stimulation of the tea, but also retains the efficacy of the tea.
Before, during, and after the production of Meng Ding Yellow Bud, laboratory testing and comparison, the tea contains a gradual increase in flavonoids, which is an important class of biologically active compounds with strong antioxidant capacity, beneficial to human health.
The production of Mengding Huangya is in the concoction of a pair of Chinese herbal medicine, through a special process, change the medicinal properties of the tea, remove the bad side, so as to retain and create the beneficial side of the human body. When a good Mengding Yellow Bud is drunk into the body, the body will be very comfortable, and the whole body will be warmed up with a refreshing feeling.”
