Famous Dancong Oolong tea. Journey to Chaozhou.

[Music] good afternoon dear friends this film is dedicated to our second journey it's taken us a long time to finish this material it was filmed in the spring of 2013 during the harvest season at ciaozo we already have a movie about our first trip to chiaozo in the fall of 2012. and i strongly advise you to see this one this on our channel this film was made in the spring we arrived just as the tea harvest was [Music] happening [Music] uh raw material for high quality guangdong oolongs is collected in spring the production of high quality tea also happens in spring tea chow zou is also harvested in autumn and the summer but that's a lower grade ordinary tea it's called thai deja it's cheaper and simpler to make than gaushan high mountain tea that's made only in spring we paid a visit to our suppliers who were collecting and producing tea at the peak of the oolong mountain the oolong mountain has serpentine roads they spiral up to the top of the mountain alongside this road are many small tea farms and factories there are no large factories in general and you won't find any mass production here all the people who live here are involved in tea production without exception the higher you got the mountain the quality of the tea increases and what's good about our supplier is that they have their own farm right at the peak of the mountain [Music] [Music] local farmers from this region and inhabitants of chile [Music] so when you say this name it can be associated not only with one variety but it can be said in general about all of the teas from this place therefore they often just call their tea dan there's a wide range of guangdong tea varieties by analogy with wish and oolongs there are around 300 well-known tea bush varieties and also a similar amount of lesser-known rarer varieties the highest quality tea is picked from old bushes lausanne they're called lone bushes because they are big almost tree-like and also they only grow in this region you can't find them anywhere else it's interesting but the harvesting process is the same as in yunnan province workers put ladders onto the tree-like bushes and pick the top leaves as a rule the pickers are usually elderly women active and agile babushkas who pick tea several times a day freshly picked tea is immediately spread out on all possible flat surfaces that can be found here sometimes even on fabric next to roadster however that's done only for cheaper teas high grade tea is never placed next to roads all the houses are made of concrete [Music] and have flat rooftops on which the tea is laid out to dry farmers also build racks for tea trays and the tea is scattered on these trays and this is the primary drying under the sun when it's about to rain farmers bring everything inside in order to keep the tea dry the next stage of processing is roasting i must say that it's remarkable that there are so few electric tries tea is mainly smoke dried on charcoals usually every farm where good tea is made has their own oven where there's a live fire underneath that's used to roast the tea it's the same process that's been used since ancient times right now i'm drinking yar xi jian i believe i've never mentioned it before on video the literal translation is quite interesting ya means duck [Music] there's a legend about this name in the russian internet that supposedly was called this on purpose in order to prevent it from being exported so that the locals could keep it for themselves the idea is that duck poop tea sounds unpleasant so no one would buy it the truth is more simple in one of the production steps the tea leaves are a little more dense and slightly shorter than other varieties of guangdong oolongs and in one of the processing stages it is actually a little similar to duck poop there's a great amount of different varieties of teas in charles oh but only three or four are widespread [Music] and the general term is feng huang dang song the latter includes many different teas just like da hong pao has many varieties you can find very many different teas here there are also different degrees of roasting like shishan greenish guangdong oolong and more deeply roasted gwangbong like jogue guandong shogui there are a lot of different varieties [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] don't [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] such a separate world here so i advise you to try different teas and to study here and i wish you all pleasant tea parties you

Channel: Sergey Moychay

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Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Mon May 24 2021