What is the production process of Anxi tea?

Tea planting in Anxi began at the latest in the Tang Dynasty, and tea production in Anxi has a long history. However, before testing, the Middle Tang Dynasty traced the history of its tea. However, it is worth noting that at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, for the first time, a large number of peasants from the Central Plains and gentry landlords who lost power moved south to Fujian. Qianlong's "Fu Zhou Fu Zhi" (Volume 75) is quoted from the "Nine Kingdoms Zhi": "In the second year of Yongjia (308), there was a big chaos in Zhongzhou, and eight families in Fujian began to wear clothes: Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu. Because of the chaos in the Central Plains, I was afraid of difficulties, and I went there without going back to the north. "

According to the records of Anxi genealogy, around 300 AD in the Western Jin Dynasty, Qiu's ancestors had moved to Kengyuan (now Changkeng Mountain Pavilion) in Jin 'an County. Immigrants from the Central Plains brought advanced production technology and culture, and sowed all kinds of seeds brought from the Central Plains on the newly reclaimed land, thus changing the semi-primitive rough farming state of the people of Fujian and Vietnam. Immigrants promoted the spread of culture and tea. At this time, there are no documents or remains to prove whether tea seeds have arrived in Anxi, but there is no doubt that the large-scale southward migration of Zhongyuan people is an epoch-making event in the development history of southern Fujian, including Anxi. The second large-scale Northern Han Dynasty in Fujian occurred in the Five Dynasties War at the end of the Tang Dynasty and during the period when Wang Chao and Wang led troops to Fujian. During this period, new immigrants living in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou and some old immigrants, such as Liu, Lin, Zhou, Liao, Zhan, Wang, Wu and An, came to Anxi one after another to settle and multiply, including many literati, monks and Taoist priests. Previously, Huang, the ancestor of the Huang family of Ziyun, moved to Anxi from Wurongzhou (now Quanzhou) in 686, and Chen moved to Anxi from Zhangzhou in the Tianbao period (742-756). Immigrants not only brought the advanced technology of Central Plains, but also brought the living habits of Central Plains people. Drinking tea is one of them. After the middle Tang Dynasty, drinking tea has become very popular in the Central Plains and has gradually become a custom. The Book of Tea (780), the world's first tea book written by "Cha Sheng" Lu Yu, was also published in this period, which had a far-reaching impact. Tea drinking is almost universal. With the southward migration of many Central Plains immigrants, tea culture was directly transplanted to Anxi.