West Lake Longjing has a long history of development, according to evidence, has a history of more than 1,500 years, the earliest can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.Ltd Tea Net
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In the Tea Sage Lu Yu’s “Tea Classic”, it is recorded that “Qiantang Tianzhu Lingyin Temple produces tea”, of which Qiantang is the old name of Hangzhou, Tianzhu Temple and Lingyin Temple are located in the West Lake, which shows that Hangzhou’s West Lake has been a place of tea production since ancient times. ltd tea.com
During his tenure in Hangzhou, Su Shi, a famous writer of the Song Dynasty, praised the local tea in Hangzhou. According to him, the tea trees planted in Tianzhu Temple were brought to Hangzhou from Tiantai Mountain by Xie Lingyun, a poet of the Southern Dynasty, when he was translating the Buddhist scriptures.Ltd Tea Net
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By the Yuan Dynasty, the tea produced by Xihu Longjing was loved by more people. Yu Ji, a poet of Yuan Dynasty, wrote a poem “Touring Longjing”, in which there is a verse “Cooking and frying golden buds, not to take after the rainy season, with two or three sons, three swallowed and could not bear to gargle”, to express his love for Xihu Longjing Tea.Ltd Tea Network
In the Ming Dynasty, Xihu Longjing began to come out of the temple, more people have the opportunity to understand and drink, and became a precious tea. ltd tea net
Ming Jiajing years of “Zhejiang plaque” records: “Hangzhou County tea, always less than the production of Longjing, and the rain before the fine buds, take one of its flag a gun, especially the treasures, the production is not much, it is appropriate to its precious.” Ltd Tea
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Ming Wanli year “Hangzhou Prefecture” records: “old Longjing, its real estate tea, for the two mountains of the best” said. ltd tea net
Ming Wanli year “Qiantang County Records” records: “tea out of Longjing, for the bean flower fragrance, color and taste sweet, and other mountain different.” Ltd Tea Net
In the nineteenth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, the compilation of “things cyanosis pearl” listed more than 90 kinds of famous tea around China at that time, of which Longjing ranked 21st. ltd tea net
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Peng Sunyi’s “Tea Picking Song” reads, “Longjing new tea is highly priced, and the cups are standing on all sides, so if you don’t meet the customers, don’t try it lightly, and work hard to get it down to the spring and the tiger’s run.” Ltd Tea
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To the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong six times to Jiangnan, four of which came to the production area of West Lake Longjing, personally watch the picking of tea to do tea, and tea poetry, in the village of Longjing titled “Longjing eight scenes”, but also will be Hu Gong Temple in front of the eighteen tea trees sealed for the “Imperial Tea”. ltd Tea Net
Therefore, the West Lake Longjing also became the royal tribute of the Qing Dynasty, since then, the ancient and modern Chinese and foreigners come to Longjing to ask about the tea of the people in an endless stream, to this day. ltd tea net