Green Tea Bi Luo Chun

Biluochun is second only to West Lake Longjing in Chinese green tea, famous for “beautiful shape, bright color, fragrant scent, and sweet taste”. It is mainly produced in Dongting Mountain of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, so it is also called “Dongting Biluochun”.

Brewing difficulty: Easy

Best season to taste: Summer

Origin: Dongting Mountain on the bank of Taihu Lake, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province

Quality characteristics

Shape: strips are slender and uniform. It is spiral-shaped like snails and fuzzy, with pekoe revealed.

Liquid: green and clear, delicious and fluid, with the scents of flower and fruit.

Aroma: fragrant and elegant.

Taste: fresh and sweet.

Brewed tea leaves: soft and green, bright and uniform.

Recognizing

Biluochun, with obvious sprout, is taken in the principle of a bud in a shoot. The bud is white and green leaves are curl. Fake Biluochun is one bud with two shoots, the length of the shoots are different, yellow, and the fuzz is mostly seen green but not white.

 

Green Tea Bi Luo Chun

Tea ceremony

Top-putting brewing method: first put some hot water into a 7/10 cup, and then some tea. The top grade tea such as Biluochun with tight strips and tender is more suitable for brewing in this way.

Water temperature: Biluochun is very delicate, so the water should be cooled down to 80℃, otherwise it will destroy the taste.

Ornamental: Biluochun is of high ornamental value. We can enjoy the sight of brewed tea leaves after infusion.

Tea-fruit intercropping

Different from other tea, Biluochun takes the form of tea-fruit intercropping cultivation: staggered with loquat, peach, pomegranate, apricot and other fruit trees. Thus, tea and fruit tress’ branches are connected to each other, and the roots are intricately interlinked. The tea slowly absorbs the incense of flowers and mature fruit, so it will have the natural quality of fruity taste and floral incense.

An interesting example of tea spread and culture changing

An interesting example of tea spread and culture changing

When I got this tea, I believe the packing designer is not Chinese but a romantic westerner who is familiar with Chinese and Japanese culture.

This ripe puerh tea is named dark mistress, which has two meanings for me. First, compared with other ripe peurh tea bricks which contains some buds, this whole leaves ripe puerh tea brick is dark color, like a beautiful lover who accompanies you no matter you are happy or sad. Second, compared with raw puerh tea, ripe puerh tea has function of stomach care like your mistress cooks health delicious food for you and takes care of you.

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I like the girl and her black hair, cheongsam, and fan very much. Including the red dragon, all these elements originate from China, but we can feel the style is not traditional Chinese culture. Even I am not very familiar Japanese culture, I think it is Japanese cartoon style.

In short, I like this packing very much, it is really interesting example of tea spread and culture changing.

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