China Anji White Tea Network Information: Culture, after being deposited over time, appears profound and deep. Only brands with a strong cultural foundation have the energy for long-term development, just as a marathon requires good endurance. The mysterious and long history of Anji White Tea is a highlight in its brand building.
Anji White Tea as a type of white tea has been around for a long time, but was lost and rediscovered again in the 1980s. Clarifying its origins provides legitimacy.
In Emperor Huizong of Song's "Da Guan Cha Lun", it says: "White tea is a kind of tea different from ordinary tea. Its twigs are broad and its leaves thin and translucent. It occasionally grows between cliffs and forests, not something that can be produced by human effort. There are only four or five families who truly cultivate it, with only one or two plants, producing only two or three catties... Imperially granted white tea thus became the first inscription."
Although Emperor Huizong was not a good emperor, he had rare literary cultivation and artistic temperament. His specialized work "Da Guan Cha Lun" also holds a high historical status. So, is the white tea mentioned here the same as today's Anji White Tea? As one of the six major types of tea, white tea is produced in many places besides Anji, including Fujian, Anhui, and Shengzhou.
Experts conducted serious and rigorous research and confirmed that Anji White Tea is a different concept from Bai Hao Yin Zhen and Bai Mu Dan in China's six major tea categories. Bai Hao Yin Zhen and Bai Mu Dan refer to white tea made from green, hairy young leaves, which become white through processing; whereas Anji White Tea is a famous green tea processed according to green tea methods from a special variety of white leaf tea with white young leaves. Its jade color comes from the variety itself. Anji White Tea is both a rare variety of tea tree and a valuable brand name for Anji White Tea.
Experts further concluded that the white tea mentioned in Emperor Huizong's "Da Guan Cha Lun" is indeed Anji White Tea. The origin of Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Fuding, Fujian, dates back to 1796. Therefore, Anji White Tea predates the white tea among China's six major tea categories by nearly seven centuries.
With the opportunities provided by history and time, and recognized by experts and scholars in China's tea studies community, Anji White Tea officially established its brand and name in 2002. Since then, with its historical and cultural roots, Anji White Tea has gained much more recognition than before.
The underlying brand culture did not come easily. The Anji government took it very seriously to build and accumulate. In April 2001, the "2001 China - Anji White Tea Festival" was grandly held in Anji, hosted by the Anji White Tea Society of China, the Anji White Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture, and organized by the People's Government of Anji County. Anji County was named the "Hometown of Chinese White Tea" by the Organizing Committee of the Publicity Campaign for Famous and Special Hometowns of China. Currently, white tea has become one of the main contents of Anji's annual Ecological Culture Festival. In 2002, the first white tea cultivation and cutting were carried out in Xilong Township, the main production area of white tea, where the White Tea Fairy Site Park was built, and the White Tea Theme Park was constructed in Diping, the seat of the Anji County government. In 2003, the Anji White Tea King was awarded the title of "White Tea Ancestor", and the White Tea Valley was developed into an Anji tourist attraction.
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