ming qian green tea means green tea that is made before the qing ming festival that's it
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ming qing ming is a chinese solar term which usually lands around april 4th to the 6th so
a lot of times when you see a tea name it might indicate its cultivar might indicate
its terroir it's origin and in this case when we talk about ming qian green tea it's telling you
when the tea is plucked it means the tea was plucked before the qing ming festival
sometimes you might also see some other terms like she qian or huo qian she qian means before
she ri she ri is the fifth of wu ri after lichun this explanation probably generates more question
but let's put that in plain words she ri usually lands around the spring equinox
so before she ri means before the uh spring equinox which is even earlier than ming qian
huo qian means before the han shi festival which usually lands about one or two days
before qing ming festival among these three tea terms ming qian she qian huo qian ming qian
will be the one that you hear the most and it's most popular and often used with green tea
usually when we talk about ming qain green tea
there's an implication that this is a better green tea because it's plucked earlier is it true
yes especially to people who just getting into chinese green tea because compared to say tea
bag or uh traditional commercial teas that we have very limited information about teas
at least when you hear ming qian green tea you know a little bit more information about the tea
when is it plucked okay it's plucked before april the 5th and there is a good relationship between
early plucking vis-a-vis the quality of the tea so to some extent the ming qian green tea
does mean it's a better quality green tea however nothing is absolute china is a big country
with various climates in different places for example yunnan it's a tropical island
the tea plants there sprouts almost all year round and they can pluck more than 10 months out of 12.
they can start plucking in december talk about yunnan province
some region in yunnan started plucking in february or march in sichuan or guizhou
provinces they usually start plucking in early march so this ming qian green tea concept and its
preciousness is really linked to the mid to lower part of changjiang area nowadays we also
have many more new cultivars compared to the old times one of which is very famous long jing 43
that it's a new sprout so at the same condition the traditional the heirloom long jing cultivar
would sprout much later compared to long jing 43 which you can probably start plucking in
early march so these are just a few reasons why i think as we learn more about tea our concept about
a certain fancy tea terms should be updated and there's no need to obsess with this ming qian tea
ming qian oolong and ming qian pu er
i think these are comedy it's overly unprofessional that make me
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