Famouse Chinese Green Tea Varieties and distribution:

Longjing

The most well-known of famous Chinese teas from Hangzhou, its name in Chinese means dragon well. It is pan-fried and has a distinctive flat appearance.Falsification of Longjing is very common, and most of the tea on the market is in fact produced in Sichuan Province[citation needed] and hence not authentic Longjing. Longjing is grown in Fenghuang mountain area, in Hangzhou Zhengjiang Province. It is said that residents in ancient times believed that the well was connect to the sea and there lived a dragon which can controlled the rainfall. That is the origin of its name, Longjing, literal ”dragon well”.

The tea has a long history; more than 1000 years. Its earliest record may be found in the book named chajing, the first book on tea in the world, written by the Chinese expert of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Lu Yu. Longjing tea was not given its name until the Southern Song Dynasty. Hangzhou as the capital of the country carried out further development in tea production. Knowledge of the tea began to spread and became known all over the country by the times of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Bi Luo Chun

A Chinese famous tea also known as Green Snail Spring, which is from Dong Ting.Bi Luo Chun is produced mainly in Dongting Mountain in Suzhou city, Jiangsu province. Dated back to Ming Dynasty, Biluochun was started to be produced. By Qing Dynasty, its presence was found all over southern ChinaThe process for collecting tea leaves is very complex. Only the tender tip of the leaf is used for the tea making process. The next step in the process is to repeatedly knead, rub and roll the leaves by hand. The Biluochun tea process do not including fermenting as green teas, and must make sure the leaves are compact, tender and wonderfully fresh and aromatic in the end.

Huangshan Maofeng

Huangshan Maofeng originated in Huangshan (Yellow Mountains, Anhui Province), so it is commonly called Huangshan Maofeng tea. It grows at an altitude of over 700 meters (2,200 feet) where there are cliffs piercing into clouds, with fertile soil, cool air, adequate rain, a short period of direct sunshine, and orchids growing everywhere lending a magnolia-like fragrance to the tea plants. Growing in such surroundings, the tea buds are big and strong, sending forth a lasting sweet aroma.Aside from the specific environmental conditions under which Maofeng is grown, the technique of picking and producing tea is unique.

The tea leaves look like tongues of birds with silver floss all about them, and are in the bright color of yellowish green; when infused
in hot water, foggy steam with fresh fragrance is floating over the water. After being made, the liquor is clear and soft yellow in color, and tastes refreshingly sweet with a mellow, full body and only a mild bitterness. The tea has a unique refined quality and its fragrance lasts long. It is the bes tknown and most exotic tea and one of the famous group of the "top ten teas in China." Maofeng tea was introduced relatively recently, around 1875, during the Qing Dynasty, introduced by the tea specialist Xie Jinghe. It was named maofeng for the appearance of the tea buds, being fluffy (mao), and for their growing location on high mountain peaks (feng).

Taipinghoukui (Monkey king)

Taipinghoukui is produced in Houkeng, Hougang and Yan village in Anhui province. It is called Taipinghoukui showing its superior quality, and ‘Kui ’in Chinese means the best or the highest.Dated back to 1915, houkui won a gold medal in Panama International Fair, and won many other gold medals at home and abroad after that,The harvesting process is very strict, and only the best and most healthy leaves and buds can be picked. Also the tippy leaves must be picked on foggy mornings before 10am.

Liuan guapian

Liuan Guapian is one of the best Green tea to come from Liuan county in the Anhui province of China, famous for producing
some of the highest quality Green teas. You would find that the Guapian tea leaves rather small somewhat resembling melon
seeds. Guapian won the China Tea Award in 1982 and China Food and Drink Award in 1988 for its superior refreshing taste and quality.
The tea was a gift from China to Henry Kissinger during his first visit to China in 1971. The finished tea leaves take the shape of the melon seeds, which gives the tea the name "Guapian". This tea can well satisfy one's thirst and help promote digestion.

Lushan Yunwu
The Yunwu Tea of Lushan is one of the ten famous tea in our country, it started to be produced in Han Dynasty, has already had for more than 1,000 years of planting history, it was listed as Gong Tea in Song Dynasty. The Yunwu Tea of Lushan takes the pure flavor, the beautiful color, fragrant and pure liquid to have long negative great reputation is sold very well at home and abroad. Carefully taste, its color, such as Tuo Tea, but is more simple elegance than Tuo Tea, if jaspers are prosperous in a bowl. Its flavor is similar to Longjing, but is thicker than Longjing, if making tea with the mountain spring of Lushan, it is more delicious. The Yunwu Tea has special taste, because of the condition of cool and much fog in Lushan influence, the sunlight time is short, become the characteristics, such as the leaves are thick, Hao is many, is sweet to bear the bubble and contain Danning, sweet smell oil and the vitamin more etc., not only the flavor is heavy, subtle fragrance, absolute being solution, and can be in aid of digest, disinfect to counteract poison, have the appetite infection of prevent from and increase the far-gone function of anti- bad blood.

Tunxi Green Tea

Tunlu is the abbreviation of Green Tea of Tunxi, growing mainly in Xiuning, She county, Jingde, Jixi, Tunxi, Ningguo. The tea is named Tunlu for they were processed mainly in Tunxi in history. Tunlu tea have sturdy, tightly kinked twigs with bright color and luster. After the tea is made, its broth assumes bright green, and exudes refreshing and delicate scent like that of Chinese chestnuts and rich and mellow fragrance. Tunlu is the super-eminent products among green teas produced in China, which has great varieties such as Zhenmei, Gongxi, Tezhen, Xiumei, Lupian, etc. Tunlu tea found the international market as early as Wanli period of Ming Dynasty,nowadays they are best sellers around the world.