Which areas produce wild old eagle tea?

The main producing area is in Sichuan Province.

Laoying tea, a specialty of Shimian County, Sichuan Province, is a symbol product of chinese national geography.

Laoying tea can be used as tea after its tender branches and leaves are dried. It is called Laoying tea locally and also used as old tea. The leaves of Laoying tea are oval, with a green face and a white back, so it is also called white tea. Laoying tea contains a lot of aromatic oil and polyphenols. It is fragrant when brewed, thick in taste, astringent before sweet, strong in taste and strong in mouth. Compendium of Materia Medica has records of "relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, relieving asthma, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst".

On July 31st, 212, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the protection of geographical indication products for Laoying Tea.

Chinese name

Laoying tea

Origin name

Shimian County, Sichuan Province

Quality characteristics

Thick taste, first astringent and then sweet

Geographical indications

Geographical indications products of AQSIQ

Approval number

Announcement No.111 of AQSIQ in 212

Product characteristics. Dry tea is brownish red in color, round, plump and strong in shape; The soup is Huang Liang in color, mellow, refreshing, sweet and fragrant with camphor.

nutritional value

Laoying tea contains many components, such as amino acids, mineral elements, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, flavonoids and polyphenols. Laoying tea has the characteristics of high iron, high selenium, high zinc and high chromium, which is beneficial to improve the functions of hematopoietic system and endocrine system. Other trace elements, such as rubidium, phosphorus, zinc, etc., have health care effects on brain nerves and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Laoying tea has many effects on human body, such as quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, promoting digestion, relieving bloating, detoxicating and detumescence, refreshing and improving intelligence, improving eyesight, invigorating stomach, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, stopping diarrhea and hiccups.

Origin environment

Shimian County is located in the west of Sichuan Province, in the middle reaches of Dadu River, and in Gongga Mountains. The territory is high in mountains and deep in valleys, with overlapping obstacles. The lowest altitude is 78 meters, the highest altitude is 5793 meters, and the relative height difference is 513 meters. The climate on the mountain and the mountain changes greatly vertically, and the temperature decreases with the increase of altitude. There are warm temperate zone, temperate zone, cold temperate zone, sub-frigid zone and alpine frigid zone in the county. More than ten rivers, such as Nanya River, Riwan River, Xiaoshui River and Songlin River, crisscross, and the clear Dadu River runs through the whole territory, with abundant hydraulic resources. The topography, climate, soil, biology and water resources in Shimian County constitute an excellent ecological environment.

Asbestos Laoying tea is mainly distributed in the middle and high mountain areas with humid climate in the north of Dadu River Basin, and it is still in the wild and semi-wild state. Due to the high mountains and heavy fog, the diffuse light formed by dense fog is beneficial to the synthesis of protein, amino acids and some mellow special components such as theanine. Therefore, asbestos eagle tea has the characteristics of green leaves, lasting fragrance, mellow taste and sweet taste, and is a traditional drink of local Yi, Tibetan and Han people.

historical origin

Laoying tea has a long history, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was also a tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty. According to historical documents, Xi Ning and Yuan Fengnian asked: "Shu tea and Boma all use coarse tea; In the Song Dynasty, with the implementation of policies such as pushing tea system, exchanging tea with horses and governing the border with tea, both coarse tea (old eagle tea) and fine tea (green tea tree species) were used as commodities of Bomayi. " Jiaqing has not compiled "Qingxi County Records": "After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, tea and horses were in traffic, so the market was complicated." The edition of Hanyuan County Records in the Republic of China states: "Yellow mud is the only thing in the county to ensure production, and Bagushan (now Meiluo Township and Fengle Township in Shimian County) along the river is also produced, with the strongest flavor and not much smoke, and there is tea, and yellow mud ensures the production of two rivers."

From the documents and materials of the red army crossing the Dadu River in 1935, which are displayed in the historical memorial hall of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army crossing the Dadu River in Anshunchang, Shimian County, we can also see that the old eagle tea has a long history and profound cultural background.

The name of Laoying Tea has a long history among the people. There are three reasons for the name of Laoying Tea: First, because Cinnamomum camphora in Shimian County is only produced in the mountains, because the mountains are high, generally only birds like eagles can fly to them. Second, because the buds (leaves) of Cinnamomum camphora have the function of cooling and detoxifying, birds such as eagles will fly to Cinnamomum camphora to peck at the leaves to detoxify. Third, a long time ago, the local people fished up the tender buds (leaves) of Cinnamomum camphora produced in the middle reaches of the Dadu River in boiling water, dried them in the shade, and drank them when guests came, so it was called "fishing for shade tea". Because of its similar pronunciation, it was gradually called Laoying tea.

Production situation

In p>212, there were more than 5, eagle tea plants in Shimian County, with an output of more than 5, kilograms, accounting for more than 6% of Sichuan Province.