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Name: "Huangjin gui"
Translation: "Golden Osmanthus" or "Golden Cinnamon"
Chinese: 黄金桂, pinyin: huángjīn guì
Origin: Anxi County (Chinese: 安溪县, pinyin: Ānxīxiàn), Quanzhou City (泉州, Quánzhōu), Fujian Province (福建, Fújiàn).
This tea is a weakly fermented oolong tea grown in the south of Fujian Province, Anxi County. The plantations are located at an altitude of 700 to 900 meters. It got its name due to the wonderful aroma of the fragrance of a flowering brown tree and the shade of the brewed tea leaf, similar to gold.
Young shoots with two or three leaves are used for production. First, the raw material is dried in the fresh air, then the leaves are crushed until the juice is released to speed up the fermentation process. After that, the raw material is laid out on bamboo mats and allowed to soak up oxygen and only then is it lightly fried in special vats.
There is a beautiful legend about the appearance of this golden drink. It says that long ago in Anxi County, newlyweds received two sprouts of tea bushes as a gift on their wedding day, which took root near their house and yielded a harvest. The harvest was so wonderful that they began to grow this oolong with such a beautiful name.