务川大叶茶介绍:

务川大叶茶产于贵州务川仡佬族苗族自治县境内的群山峻岭中。务川仡家人饮“油茶”是仡佬民族长达1400年的传统饮食习俗，同时也是仡佬民族“三幺台”饮食文化的重要组成部分。在务川的黄都、涪洋等乡镇至今保存数百棵百年树龄的大树（叶）茶。在务川特殊的地质和气候条件下生长的大叶茶，其水浸物含量38.24%，茶多酚含量更是高达28.15%。

务川大叶茶是在谷雨前后晴天的上午六时至十时采摘两叶抱一芽茶青，经过数小时的微凋、特制铁锅杀青、人工整形及多道工序的烘焙精制而成。大叶茶外形平扁挺直，色泽苍绿，入杯冲泡芽叶徐徐展开，如同在细说一段仡佬民族饮食文化发展的历史。茶香浓郁醇厚持久，汤色青绿明澈，经久耐泡， 具有“止渴明目除烦，清痰利水消食”之效用。

冲泡方法：

1.       取3-5克务川大叶茶放入直行透明玻璃杯中

2.       冲入90摄氏度左右的开水适量，等茶叶慢慢的舒展开

3.       茶叶舒展差不多时第二次加入开水，等几分钟就可以品务川大叶茶了。

About  Wuchuan Tea

Wuchuan Tea originates in a mountainous region in autonomous villages of Gelao clan and Miao clan in Wuchuan, Guizhou province. Drinking "You Cha" has been a traditional eating habit of Ge people for 1400 years and it's an important part of “SanYaoTai” food culture as well. Nowadays more than more thousand of tea trees over a hundred years old have been well preserved in villages and towns such as Huangdu and Fuyang in Wuchuan.  The amount of aqueous extract and tea polyphenols of tea trees grew up under the special geological and climatic conditions could be as high as 38.24% and 28.15% respectively.

The sprouts of Wuchuan Tea are picked up at six to ten o'clock on a sunny morning after Grain Rain. They are carefully refined after hours of deterioration, fixing in a special iron pot, manually reshaping and multiple steps of baking. The Wuchuan Tea is flat and straight by appearance. It has a dark green color, and the sprouts will unfold gently in the hot water as if it is telling you the long history of the food culture in Ge clan. The infusion is pure, rich and lasting while the color of the tea is limpid and bright. It is said to have a positive effect on improving eyesight, mind calmness, throat clearance and help digestion. 

Instructions of Tea-making

1 Put 3-5g of Wuchuan tea into a clean regular glass

2 Put appropriate amount of hot water (90 centigrade recommended) and wait for the leaf to unfold

3 Put some hot water again when the leaf is almost unfolding and you can enjoy the Wuchuan Tea after a few minutes.