Anxi golden osmanthus, also known as “yellow Dan”, according to legend, the Qing Xianfeng ten years (1860), Anxi Luo Yan Zaokeng village, a young man named Lin Ziqin, married a neighboring village woman Wang Tan as his wife. tbk tea net
A month after the wedding, according to local custom, the bride needs to go back to her mother’s home, and her mother’s family should prepare a kind of green things for the bride, such as vegetable seedlings, grass seedlings, etc., to bring back to the husband’s family, in order to herald the generations, the prosperity of the population. tbk tea net
Wang Tan brought back two small tea seedlings from her mother’s home, planted next to the house, the couple took good care of. tbk tea net
The third year of the Qingming Festival, the couple picked and brewed with water, the aroma. The aroma of the sky attracted the townspeople to come to taste, everyone is full of praise, called it “through the sky incense”. tbk tea net
Later, people are widely planted this kind of tea, because the tea is passed on from Wangtan, so the local people call it “Wangtan tea”. Minnan language “king” and “yellow”, “light” and “Dan” resonance, “king light tea” slowly came to be. Wang Tan Tea” slowly evolved into “Huang Dan Tea”. tbk tea net