Ancient sayings
Like most things, the earliest claims about white tea have their origins in myth and legend. ix5tea.com
According to the legend, the ancient name of Tai Mo Shan was Cai Shan, when Emperor Yao had an old mother living here to plant orchids as a business, and had used the green snow bud tea she planted as a holy medicine for measles, saving many children, people worshipped her as a god and called her Tai Mo, and the mountain was thus named Tai Mo Shan, later renamed as Tai Mo Shan. IX5Tea.com
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Nowadays, Fuding Taimushan still has old tea trees of green snow buds, which are rumored to be the original mother tree of Fuding Great White Tea planted by Tai Mo Maiden herself. IX5Tea.com
Hunan Agricultural College, Mr. Yang Wenhui in the publication of the “on the origin of white tea debatable period” in an article proposed that the emergence of white tea earlier than green tea. The reason is: Chinese ancestors initially discovered the medicinal value of tea, in order to save the spare, must be fresh tea buds and leaves sun-dried or roasted, which is the birth of white tea in the history of Chinese tea. ix5tea.net
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Tang Dynasty
The name of white tea first appeared in the Tang Dynasty in Lu Yu’s “Tea Classic” seven things, recorded: “Yongjia County, three hundred miles east of the white tea mountain.” IX5Tea.com
Prof. Chen Citron pointed out in the “General History of Tea”: “Yongjia east three hundred miles is the sea, is the error of the south three hundred miles. South three hundred miles is fujian fuding (tang for changxi county jurisdiction), is the white tea origin. ix5tea.com
“Visible in the Tang Dynasty, Changxi County (Fuding, Fujian Province) has cultivated “white tea” varieties. Because it only has a name, whether it can be used as evidence of the origin is still subject to further debate. ix5tea.net
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Song Dynasty
Song Huizong (Zhao Ji) in the “Daguan tea theory” section dedicated to white tea, said: “White tea, since a kind of, and often different tea. Its strips of perfumed elaboration, its leaves Ying thin, between the forest and cliffs, accidentally born, although not manpower can be achieved. The royal tea garden in the Song Dynasty, located in Fujian Jian’an County Beiyuan (i.e., today’s Fujian Province, Jian’ou County). ix5tea.net
The white tea in the “Daguan tea theory”, is the early production in the Beiyuan imperial baking tea mountain wild white tea. The production method is still steamed and pressed into a tea ball, with today’s white tea production method is not the same. ix5tea.net
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Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty Tian Yiheng “cooking spring sketches” in the cloud: “Tea, fire author for the second, sunburned for the top, but also close to the natural, and cut off the smoke and fire gas ear”. “Raw sunshine” is now the production of white tea production method. White tea is the real “not close to the fire”. ix5tea.com
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Qing Dynasty
White tea production, is in the early years of the Qing Jiaqing (1769) picking bud tea made of silver needle. 1885 changed to pick Fuding big white tea made of white hair silver needle. In 1880, Zhenghe County discovered large white tea, and started making silver needles in 1889, before making white peony in 1922. ix5tea.com
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Modern times
Until the 1950s, white tea was always produced or purchased from tea farmers to ensure the needs of Fujian Province’s foreign trade exports. Due to the site and climate, the production of white tea was very low, so the tea farmers had a common saying “hard work does not solve the weather changes”. ix5tea.com
In 1963, Fuding Tea Factory Bailin Tea Factory utilized the hot air withering tank technology to produce white tea, which was successful, and the production only began to improve. In addition, from a historical point of view, white tea is exclusively an export tea, and there is a saying that “flowers bloom inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall”. IX5Tea.com
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And the early white tea production was small, mainly for export, so the domestic visibility is low, until the beginning of this century, a small amount of white tea in the country, followed by the gradual emergence of. ix5tea.net
Many people do not recognize white tea for what kind of tea. It is only in the last decade or so that it started to gain fame, and it is conceivable where so many old white teas on the market today come from. IX5Tea.com