云南白茶 Yunnan white tea

Yunnan large white tea produced in Jinggu County, 1600 meters above sea level in Yangta Village, is Yunnan large-leaf species. In the Qing dynasty Daoguang twenty years (1840) around, by a “eat six bowls of rice every day, make nine and a half pounds of hoe” Chen LiuJiu to go to the river meandering (that is, the Lancang river) side of the business, in the Chashanba found white tea species, they secretly picked dozens of seeds, hidden in the bamboo tube flat, brought back to Yangta. First planted in a large garden, after several years of cultivation, growth is very fast, and then expanded to the surrounding fourteen tea, had reached three, four acres of area, the annual output of three, five quintals of tea.