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    Super green, umami, floral, sweet finish.

A tea with over 1200 years of history. This Green was first cultivated in around 700AD (Tang Dynasty). The story goes that the founder of the Jingshan Buddhist Temple in Zhejiang (Master Fa Qin) planted these tea trees around the temple in 742AD and picked some to offer as a tribute to Buddha. The flavour of the tea was highly prized and began to be cultivated all around the area of Jingshan.

The monks studying in the temples enjoyed this tea and it became customary to serve to guests to the temples. The way of serving the tea and its association with Buddhism gradually became known as the Jingshan tea ceremony.

During this era, Japanese monks were studying Buddhism in the temples of Jingshan and Ningbo and were inspired by this tea and the reverence with which it was served to guests. These monks brought this tea culture back to their homelands.

In this way, Jingshan Green was probably the original tea to be brought back to Japan and inspired Japanese tea culture and the Japanese tea ceremony.

Jingshan Green continued to be an imperial tribute tea in the Song Dynasty and was considered as valued as Long Jing and Tianmu tea. For some reason this tea is less well known in the West but is highly valued in China.

This tea can be brewed Gong Fu style and Grandpa Style. At first it can appear to be a quite simple, high quality tea but it reveals an intensely sweet and aromatic quality through infusions.

 

Gong Fu Brewing Western Brewing
Water
Temp
Amountg per 100ml 1st Infusionseconds + Infusionsseconds Number of
Infusions
Amountg per 100ml 1st Infusionseconds + Infusionsseconds Number of
Infusions
80°c
175F
3.5 15 +5 5 0.6 120 +60 2

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