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what is spring tea summer tea and autumn tea isn't this very obvious does this need a video
uh yes in Canada and I believe the states as well let me know if if I'm wrong the the beginning of
Spring is the Spring Equinox summer is the summer solstice while Autumn is the Autumn Equinox so
those mark the beginning of each season while in China when we talk about spring summer and
Autumn the beginning is usually marked by the Chinese solar terms li chun li xia and li qiu
when we talk about tea season so spring tea is usually qing ming to li xia
summer tea is usually xiao man to xia zhi
and autumn tea is da shu to han lu so these are the rough zone of the tea season but when it comes
to specific plucking time and the plucking length it really depends on each Year's the rainfall
amount as well as the temperature so it's not rare to see that spring tea starts way earlier than
in April so in the spring the temperature really dictates the tea season while in summer and autumn
usually we watch carefully with the rainfall once someone asked me what's first flush Chinese tea
and honestly I don't know it's not a Chinese tea term it's an Indian tea term so
I would have to guess based on it's in it's meaning in the Indian tea so I think in this
case it's best to ask the source personally I just feel like it's a marketing term like
you know certain type of a fusion Cuisine that steak with some soy sauce and black sesame and
here's five more dollars out of my pocket um well I'll try not to be so cynic different tea regions
in China have a very different tea season some places the pluck only one season a year uh like
wuyi some places uh pluck two seasons a year like anxi tie guan yin they would do spring tea and
autumn tea and of course it's always developing so some places that originally only pluck two seasons
now it's plucking also summer teas and many places also do winter tea as a small production
we usually call that dong pian as for spring tea season sometimes you can hear tou chun er chun
san chun those are referring to a different time frame in the spring tea harvest season
and puerh traditionally has really romantic name referring to its plucking time for example
spring is called the chun jian very early first round of plucking and in the Autumn
is called gu hua it does it means a grain flower but when you see gu hua puerh you
know it's a Autumn puerh I hope that was helpful if you like this video please give
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