Tea making techniques (jasmine tea making techniques of Zhang Yiyuan)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: flower tea making techniques (Zhang Yiyuan's jasmine tea making techniques)

Applicant: Beijing Zhangyiyuan Tea Co., Ltd

Project No.: 930

Project No.: Ⅷ - 147

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Beijing

Type: new item

Applicant: Beijing Zhangyiyuan Tea Co., Ltd

Protection unit: Beijing Zhangyiyuan Tea Co., Ltd

Brief introduction to the production technology of jasmine tea by Zhang Yiyuan:

Applicant: Beijing Zhangyiyuan Tea Co., Ltd

Scented tea is made by scenting green tea and jasmine for many times. This is a unique kind of tea in China. Tea is famous for its flowers, which are better than tea. Camellia originated in Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, many tea houses in Beijing were famous for selling jasmine tea. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Changyi set up Zhang Yiyuan tea house, which was passed down from generation to generation, specializing in the production and sale of jasmine tea. During the Republic of China, Zhang Yiyuan was famous in Beijing. Most of the regular customers in the bathhouse and opera garden call on Zhang Yiyuan for tea, and famous Peking opera artists such as Qiu Shengrong, Ma Lianliang and Tan Fuying are also his regular customers. After the public-private joint venture in 1956, Zhang Yiyuan gradually lost his original characteristics of selling scented tea exclusively. In 1992, Zhang Yiyuan's traditional jasmine tea production process was restored. Zhang Yiyuan's jasmine tea is made from Fujian baked green tea spring tea. The primary processing includes withering, green killing, rolling and baking. This kind of flower tea, which is deeply loved by the people in Beijing, has a unique flavor, good quality and low price, and contains a profound cultural heritage of old Beijing, which has a wide market. However, the production technology of jasmine tea by Zhang Yiyuan is more complex, and the manual labor is quite hard, so fewer and fewer people are willing to learn this technology. The inheritance and development of scenting technology of jasmine tea has become an urgent problem to be solved.