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Pi Lo Chun tea

Origin Place: manufactured in Jiangsu province

Types: Green tea

 

 

 Bi Luo Chun is a famous green tea originally grown in the Dong Ting

mountain of Tai Hu, Jiangsu Province, China. Also known as Pi Lo Chun,

it is renowned for its delicate appearance, fruity taste, floral

aroma, showy white hairs and early cropping.

 The legend of Bi Luo Chun

 For centuries this very famous aromatic light green tea was known by

the name Xia Sha Ren Xiang (Astounding Fragrance). A legend explains

why. Once in the distant past, some pickers of a particularly good

crop filled their baskets before they were ready to go home. Wanting

to carry more leaves, they stuffed the excess inside their tunics.

Warmed by body heat, the leaves began to give off a rich aroma. "I was

astounded," many pickers said, and the name stuck.

 Sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century while on

an inspection of his realm, Emperor Kang Xi visited the Lake Taihu

area in Zhejiang province and his host presented him with this tea.

Striking the Emperor as a tea of purity he asked the name. "Astounding

Fragrance" was his host's reply. The Emperor, with disdain, replied

that such a name for this treasure was vulgar and an insult. Ordering

the unused leaves brought for his examination, the Emperor declared

that a more fitting name would be Green Snail Spring because the

rolled shape looked like a snail shell.

 The original name is most popular, however. Peach, Apricot and plum

trees are planted among the bushes. When these fruit trees bloom, the

tender spouts and buds of tea absorb the aromas to be passed on to

those who drink their infusion.

 The name is now known all over the world, for this is one of China's

famous rare teas. Its home is two mountains known as East and West

Dongting which poke up out of Taihu, the great lake not far west of

Shanghai, and where the garden city of Suzhou is located. One mountain

is an island in the lake and the other a peninsula. The water

evaporating from the lake keeps them overhung with clouds and mist,

thus the young leaves stay moist.