Flag gun tea processing

The gun and gun tea collection system has a long history and a wide production area. Yuhang, Fuyang, Xiaoshan, Huzhou, Changxing, Lin'an, Wukang, Shaoxing, Tonglu, Jiande and other cities and counties all have production, and they are mainly sold in major cities in the south of the Yangtze River. After the establishment of New China, the sale of high-grade tea was sluggish and there was stagnation. In 1952, it was converted to appropriate production. In the late 1960s, except Zhutang and Longwu in Hangzhou’s Xihu District, 3 townships (towns) were produced, and Fuyang, Some areas in Yuhang and Xiaoshan are produced outside of production, and other flag-gun production areas have been converted. In the mid-1980s, the city of Jintang designated some production areas such as Zhuantang and Longwu as the West Lake Longjing Tea Region and the rapid rise of Zhejiang Longjing Tea. Flag gun tea has become less and less. The processing technology of the flag gun tea is basically the same as that of Longjing tea: the high and middle grades are divided into two processes: the “qingguo” and the “pan pot”, and the same traditional frying techniques as the Longjing tea are used in the pan. Longjing tea special electric frying pan) for manual frying; low-grade flag gun tea is also divided into fixing green, rubbing, two green and pot 4 procedures. In the past, the flag fired on the tea pot was also used as a “stiff pot”, that is, it was used less often to change the use of a skewer with a method such as tapping and pressing.

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