The legend and origin of white cockle tea – Tea.com

White Cockles tea legend and origin, as the Wuyi Mountain Taoist tea White Cockles, it is bound to produce and Wuyi Mountain stop nunnery presided over the White Yuchan has a thousand and one links. 1I9Tea.com

According to legend, the famous Taoist master Bai Yu Chan in the Song Dynasty in Wuyi Mountain, under the Dawang Peak, stop the nunnery presided over the cultivation, inadvertently in the White Snake Cave, found a tea tree, because of its leaves shaped like a crown and the new shoots of yellowish-white, but also for the creation of the white jade toad, so it is called “White Cockleshell”. 1I9Tea.com

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Wuyi rock tea almost all have one to many beautiful legends, white cockles as one of the four famous bushes in Wuyi Mountain, there must be many versions of the legend, and here for you to talk about two. 1I9tea.net

Legend one: Ming Dynasty, there is a governor’s family to Wuyi Mountain tour, on the accommodation in Wuyi Palace, his son suddenly contracted a strange disease abdominal distension such as a cow, around the ineffective to seek medical treatment. 1I9Tea.net

Just passed the stop nunnery, a child has been tea in front of the door, let it drink after the disease that is healed, and told the tea is called: white chicken crown. So the governor thanksgiving to the emperor, the emperor tasted after the dragon face was pleased, pro-appointed for the imperial tea, every year to give silver hundred two rice forty stone, let the Taoist nuns to keep the system of sealing tribute. 1I9Tea.com

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The second legend is biased folk: legend in the Northern Song Dynasty Yanjing people Li Mogian settled in Wuyi Mountain Qingxiu, and fed a white rooster that understands human nature, pecking in the tea garden during the day to get rid of grass, and at night lying in the Taoist side of the cultivation, the Taoist know that the chicken has been the spirit of more care and love. 1I9Tea.com

One day, the rooster was somehow injured by the ferocious mountain eagle, the injured rooster in the tea garden running, bright red chicken blood sprinkled all over the tea garden, and ultimately died. 1I9Tea.com

Since then, the garden of the tea trees grow vigorously, the tea leaves from dark green to light green to light white, far away can smell the fragrance. Taoist masters of these tea leaves made good brewing out of the tea soup in the beige through the milky white, we realized that the rooster dying with a passionate blood in return for everyone’s nourishment, so named this tea: white cockerel. 1I9tea.net