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The Green Tea Production Skills (Yuhua Tea Production Skills) are mainly practiced in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Yuhua tea plantations mostly adopt an intercropping model with trees and bushes, primarily located on loess hills between 20-50 meters above sea level. The soil is a yellowish-red type, slightly acidic, with an organic matter content of 1.89%. In the late Qing Dynasty, Lu Yong and others established the national tea research institution "Jiangnan Planting Tea Bureau" on Zijin Mountain in Nanjing. They reclaimed land around Linggu Temple for tea planting and production, naming the tea "Cloud Mist Tea." After the Xinhai Revolution, tea makers developed the technique of rolling the leaves into slender shapes, giving Cloud Mist Tea its initial pine needle-like appearance. Following liberation, they incorporated techniques of grabbing and straightening the leaves, which finalized the tea's tight, fine, round, and straight pine needle shape. It was renamed "Yuhua Tea" in 1959. Production Skills The Green Tea Production Skills (Yuhua Tea Production Skills) represent traditional Chinese green tea needle-shaped production techniques. The main process of Yuhua Tea production involves: fresh leaf picking → spreading out → pan-firing → rolling → preliminary drying → shaping → final drying → refinement → baking…

Basic Introduction to Nanjing HoneysuckleNanjing honeysuckle is a variety of the Chinese medicinal herb honeysuckle, a specialty of Nan County, Sichuan Province. Due to the county's unique geographical and climatic conditions that are particularly suitable for the growth of honeysuckle, the product has high effective components and good quality, making it very popular. The product has been included in the list of China's national geographic indication products for protection. Nutritional ValueCold in nature and sweet in taste; it enters the lung and stomach meridians; it clears heat and detoxifies, dispels wind-heat. It is used as the primary treatment for carbuncles and furuncles at their initial stages, redness, swelling, and pain, external contraction of wind-heat, onset of febrile diseases, heat-toxic bloody dysentery, summer heat and thirst, sore throat. Honeysuckle contains isochlorogenic acid, loganin, luteolin, chlorogenic acid, inositol, and other components, and is rich in volatile oils, with the main components of the oil being bisabolol and linalool. Product CharacteristicsNanjing honeysuckle is rich in chlorogenic acid, luteoloside, linalool, and more than 30 other volatile oils and triterpenoids, and over 10 kinds of inorganic elements. Tests have shown that the chlorogenic acid content in Nanjing honeysuckle is generally around 5.5%, reaching up to…

In most people's minds, antiques are valuable and have the potential to appreciate in value. Thus, many believe that this is also the case when it comes to collecting purple clay teapots. Graphics and Text | Sandhai Mo Yun To date, the earliest known and dated purple clay teapot discovered was the "Wu Jing Tiliang" unearthed in Nanjing in 1965. Purple clay teapots from the Ming and Qing dynasties are certainly "antiques" compared to modern ones. Ming Dynasty Wu Jing Tiliang But does that mean that all Ming and Qing dynasty teapots are valuable? The answer is clearly no. Only those Ming and Qing dynasty teapots that meet certain necessary conditions can be considered valuable "antiques." Below, Xiao Yun will analyze what makes a Ming and Qing dynasty teapot valuable (necessary conditions). 01 A Genuine Ming or Qing Dynasty Teapot When considering whether a Ming or Qing dynasty teapot is valuable, the first step is to determine if it is truly an old teapot rather than a modern imitation of an old one. Faux-Aged Imitation Teapot There are now people who specifically collect old teapots, leading to a significant number of fake old teapots on the market. Some individuals even…