The Nine Melody Red Plum on the Spirit Mountain was also known as the Nine Melody Oolong. It originated from Jiuqu Creek of Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province and had been produced in Lingshan for more than 100 years. It was the black tea among the 28 famous teas in Zhejiang Province. The shape of Jiuqu Red Plum Tea was curved and thin like a fish hook, like a silkworm ant. The bud leaves were about 12mm long, and the ropes were tightly knotted. There were many white hairs on the surface, and the color was dark and moist. When brewed with Lingshan spring water, the tea soup was bright red, like red plum in the water. It tasted fresh and delicious, and its quality was comparable to that of Keemun black tea in Anhui Province. Jiuqu red plum tasted fresh, mellow, sweet, rich, beautiful, and fragrant. It had the elegance of West Lake Longjing, but it was more fragrant and long-lasting than the sweet and bitter. It was loved by adults and children and was known as the "West Lake Double Unique" with West Lake Longjing. In 2006 and 2009, Jiuqu Hongmei was included in the intangible cultural heritage list of Hangzhou City and Zhejiang Province respectively. It was said that during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, farmers from Wuyi, Fujian, migrated to northern Zhejiang and settled down in Lingshan to grow tea. The black tea made by the farmers who were good at making black tea was purchased by the tea shops and tea shops in Hangzhou and has been passed down to this day. Jiuqu Hongmei was produced in Hubu, Renqiao, and Dawu Mountain on the outskirts of Hangzhou. The quality produced by Hubu and Dawu Mountain was the best. Dahu Mountain was more than 500 meters high. The top of the mountain was a basin with fertile sandy soil. It was surrounded by mountains and lush forests. It was near the bank of Qiantang River. The mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist, suitable for the growth of tea trees. There was once a story. During the Qingming Festival in 1929, a local farmer, Shen Renchun, picked Qingming tea from 18 tea trees on the slope of Chaoyang Mountain next to the "Shuangshi Drip Pool" on Lingshan Mountain. He made about two catties of Jiuqu Red Plum Tea and sent it to the West Lake Exposition in Gushan, Hangzhou, to participate in the evaluation. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The production technique of Jiuqu Hongmei Tea has been included in the intangible cultural heritage list of Zhejiang Province. It was made from the original leaves of Longjing tea trees, which were withered, rolled, fermented, dried and other processes. On April 1st, 2024, in Hubu Village, Shuangpu Town, Feng Zanyu, the provincial non-hereditary inheritor of Jiuqu Red Plum Tea, was busy making the first batch of Jiuqu Red Plum Tea before the Ming Dynasty. Jiuqu Hongmei Tea had been produced for nearly 200 years. It was created during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Together with West Lake Longjing Tea, it was known as the "Red and Green Double Unique". Some brands, such as Shifeng Jiuqu Hongmei, followed the traditional tea-making techniques, and some companies directly sold products for the source of Jiuqu Hongmei non-hereditary tea. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
When brewing Jiuqu Red Plum, the ratio of tea to water was about 1:50. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The price of Jiuqu Red Plum was different due to factors such as quality. In 2024, the market price of pre-rain AAA-grade Jiuqu red plum was 130.00 - 142.00 yuan per catty; Shifeng brand Jiuqu red plum first-grade 200g was sold at 82.02 yuan (the price after 88VIP discount) in the supermarket; Osmanthus Jiuqu red plum came in many sizes. 40g was sold at 98 yuan, 50g was sold at 190 yuan, and a catty was almost 1900 yuan. The top price was even more expensive at 2800 yuan/catty. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Jiuqu Hongmei was called "Nine-bend Red Plum" or "Jiuqu Hongmei". In English terms related to tea, it was also possible to directly use "black tea" to refer to Jiuqu Hongmei because Jiuqu Hongmei belonged to the black tea category. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Jiuqu Hongmei, also known as Jiuqu Red or Jiuqu Oolong, was a traditional famous tea in West Lake District and was one of the top ten famous teas in China. It had a production history of nearly 200 years and was created during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. The production of Jiuqu Hongmei was made from the original leaves of Longjing tea trees, which were withered, rolled, fermented, dried, and other processes. Its appearance is as thin as a fish hook, the rope is tight, the surface is mostly white, the color is black and moist; The color of the soup is yellow and bright, and the bottom of the leaves is red. When brewing, if the tea was brewed with Lingshan spring water, the tea would be bright red, like red plum in the water. The taste was fresh and delicious, and the quality could be comparable to the black tea of Keemun, an province in Guizhou Province. Jiuqu Hongmei was mainly produced in Hubu, Shuangling, Zhangyu, Fengjia, Lingshan, Shejing, Renqiao, Shangyang, and Xiayang areas of Shuangpu Town in West Lake District. Among them, the quality produced by Hubu Dawushan was the best. In history, Jiuqu Hongmei Tea won the gold medal at the World Exposition in Vietnam in 1915, won the special prize at the first West Lake Exposition in Hangzhou in 1929, and was selected into the intangible cultural heritage list of Zhejiang Province in 2009. Together with West Lake Longjing tea, it was known as the " Red and Green Double Unique " or the " Double Walls " of West Lake Tea Area. West Lake Longjing tea was like green jade, and Jiuqu red plum was like red agate. The two complemented each other, one red and one green like " a little red in a green bush." "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The nine-song red plum had many effects, such as: 1. [Refreshing: Rich in coffeine, it can stimulate the nervous center of the cerebral cortexes, making people think more concentrated, think more quickly, and enhance memory. It also has an exciting effect on the cardiovascular system. It can strengthen the heart beat output, speed up blood circulation, and improve symptoms such as listlessness and fatigue.] 2. Eliminate fatigue: The combined effect of coffeine and aromatic substances can increase kidney blood flow, improve glomerular filtration rate, expand kidney capillaries, and increase urine output by suppressing the reabsorption of water by the kidney tubulars. At the same time, it can accelerate the secretion of actic acid (a substance that causes muscle fatigue). Moreover, the poly-aromatic compounds in tea have anti-inflammatory effects, which can reduce inflammation and kill bacteria. 3. Replenish Water: Drinking it in appropriate amounts can replenish water for the body and prevent excessive water loss in the body from causing imbalance in the body or dehydration. 4. Warming the body: It is warm in nature. Drinking it appropriately can improve symptoms such as cold limbs and chills. 5. "Promotes digestion: Tea Polyphylls and Caine can promote gastric secretion, stimulate the acceleration of stomach and intestine movements, facilitate digestion and absorption of food, and improve the symptoms of inappetence. 6. Diuretics: Caffine can expand the blood vessel wall of the kidney, promote urine secretion, and help to improve the difficulty of urinating. 7. Nourishing the stomach: It is a fully fermented black tea. The content of tea poly-esters will be reduced after the fermentation reaction under the action of the enzyme. The irritation to the stomach will be reduced, and it has the effect of nourishing the stomach. 8. [Detoxification: The tea contains a lot of alkaloids that can absorb heavy metals and alkaloids and decompose them. It has a certain detoxification effect.] 9. Digest, remove greasy, quench thirst: can help digestion, relieve greasy feeling, can also produce saliva to quench thirst. 10. Fat loss, weight loss, beauty and beauty: helps to reduce fat accumulation, and has a certain effect on beauty and beauty. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The production method of the Nine Melody Red Plum was as follows: 1. ** Withering **: This was the first process of making black tea. The purpose of the withering of Gongfu black tea was to let the fresh leaves lose an appropriate amount of water evenly under certain conditions, so that the cell swelling force would be reduced, and the leaves would become soft so that they could be rolled into strips and create physical conditions for rolling. With the loss of water, the leaf cells would gradually condense, and the activity of the zymes would increase, causing a certain degree of chemical changes in the contents, creating chemical conditions for fermentation and making the green grass gas disappear. At present, there were three types of withering methods for Gongfu black tea. One was natural withering, including indoor natural withering and sunlight withering; the second was artificial heating withering, including withering trough and heating withering (very few); the third was withering machine withering. The withering trough withering structure was simple, the work efficiency was high, and the withering quality was good. It was a more effective method to realize semi-mechanized production. 2. ** Rolling **: This was the second step in the initial process of making black tea. It was an important step to form a tight and slender shape of the black tea and to improve its inner quality. 3. ** Fermenting **: Although the document did not mention the specific conditions of the Jiuqu Hongmei fermentation process in detail, fermentation was an indispensable part of the black tea production. Usually, under suitable temperature, humidity and other conditions, the tea-making substances in the tea would undergo an fermentation reaction under the action of the catalyst. 4. ** Baking **: After rolling and fermenting, the tea leaves need to be baked to remove excess water and stabilize the quality characteristics of the tea leaves such as aroma and taste. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
There is a poem,"Fragrant grass flows at the bottom of the rock, and phoenixes are stacked in the song." The plum blossoms are scattered, and the orioles sing in the nine songs. The fragrance of Taoyuan is left in vain, and the courtyard is full of red lotus roots. Xi Shi misses her love in autumn, and her heart is broken." "The mountains and rivers are clear, the bones are beautiful, and the red lips and tongue are fragrant. Dark fragrance floating, seven times to enjoy the red soup. The aftertaste of its appearance and inner quality, its flexibility index, is unparalleled." There were also poems written by Master Hongyi that described the nine songs of red plum blossoms, such as " The color of agate in the white jade cup, the fragrance of plum blossoms under the red lips and tongue." "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The brewing method of Jiuqu Red Plum was as follows: 1. ** Simple Soaking Method **: The teapot soaking method is suitable. The tea set was made of porcelain from Jingdezhen. It was filled with about five-tenths of the tea leaves in the pot and poured into the boiling water. After brewing, the fragrance was high and lasting. After about 45 seconds, it was poured into a small cup. First, smell the fragrance, then taste it. 2. [Gongfu Soaking Method: Use clear water to taste its fragrance.] When brewing Gongfu black tea, one would usually choose a purple sand tea set, a white porcelain tea set, and a white red flower porcelain tea set. The ratio of tea to water was about 1:50, and the temperature of the tea was 90 - 95 ° C. When brewing, the tea leaves were first put into the teapot according to the proportion, and then added with water to brew. The brewing time was 2 - 3 minutes, and then the tea soup was poured into the teacup according to the circulation tea pouring method to make the concentration of the tea soup uniform. When drinking, you should drink it carefully and slowly. Jiuqu Red Plum Tea can generally be brewed 2 - 3 times. You can also add an appropriate amount of lemon, milk, honey, etc. according to your personal preference. 3. ** Regular brewing method **: After warming the cup, add an appropriate amount of tea leaves, shake it left and right first (to stimulate the fragrance of the dry tea), and then choose to pour boiling water into it (to make the dry tea rotate faster in the covered bowl to release the contents of the tea). After about 5 - 6 seconds, the soup can be served. However, there were also people who believed that black tea could not be brewed with boiling water at 100 ° C, but boiling water could stimulate the mellow fragrance of black tea and make the tea taste more abundant. Not only was the fragrance mellow and long, but the taste was also richer and more layered. Whether to use boiling water or 95 ° C water temperature depended on one's personal habits and taste. In addition, there was another brewing method, which was to warm the cup first, take 3 - 5 grams of tea leaves, pour the tea into the bowl, then pour water with a temperature of about 95 ° C, high water, low tea; then pour the tea, quickly pour the soup, and pour the tea into the cup in turn; finally, smell the fragrance first, then taste it, pour it lightly and drink it. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Master Hongyi once wrote a poem,"The color of agate in a white jade cup, the fragrance of plum blossoms under the red lips and tongue" to describe the nine red plum blossoms. There was also a comparison between Jiuqu Hongmei and West Lake Longjing. It was said that West Lake Longjing was like green jade, while Jiuqu Hongmei was red agate."One red and one green," it could be said to be "a little red in a myriad of greenery." In addition, the description of the tea soup,"orange and bright, nectar fragrance is more obvious, the mouth has a sweet and sour taste similar to fruit, after swallowing there is a sweet feeling in the throat, the dry tea is black and firm, curved like a hook, the tea soup is red like agate, drinking has a faint plum fragrance" and other sentences also show the unique charm of Jiuqu red plum. "Nine Plum Red Songs Collection" novel is equally wonderful. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!