Green Tea

Green tea is originated in ChiBi, HuBei province, China and first written record by a man called the mystical emperor ShenNong in 2737 B. C.. This tea is named green tea by the emperior ZhuYuanZhan in Ming Dynasty. Late Yuan dynasty, ZhuYuanZhan led the peasant uprising, because of the long-term war, his armies suffered abdominal pain. Fortunately, a peasant took some tea to the sick, after they drank the water, they did't felt any pain for a while. ZhuYuanZhan thought this was very mysterious and kept this in his mind, when he became the emperior, he decided to look for the hermit. When He found the hermit, he gave the tea leaf to him. The emperior Zhu amazed by its fragrancy and elegant outlooking, he gave the tea a name of green tea.

Nowadays, green tea is planted a lot and mainly distributed in ZheJiang, AnHui, SiChuan, HuBei province, in southern China and divided into several varieties like BiLuoChun, HuangShanMaoFeng, LuAnGuaPian, XiHuLongJing, MengDingGanLu, PingShuiZhuCha, etc. These teas are very famous both inside and outside China.

Green tea has many health benefits. Green tea contains salubrious polyphenols, particularly catechins, the most abundant of which is epigallocatechin gallate. These chemicals can not only prevent cardiovascular disease, cancer, cavity disease, but also be beneficial to longevity, beauty and skin care, losing weight and a better mind performance.

There are many different kinds of green tea in the market. How can you select and identify the quality of tea? There are some ways to identify the tea. The simplest way is to look its colour. If the tea's leaf looks more fresh and green, it means the tea has high qulity. The storage time is the shorter the better the quality. High quality of green tea's leaves look fresh green and glossy. Its liquid smells strong fragrant and tastes delicate fragrance, orchid fragrance or chestnut fragrance. The tea's liquid has a green colour.
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