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The main component of Wuyi Tea is middle-sized or small-sized leaves
and tea made of
these leaves is called Wuyi rock-essence tea, which is the earliest Oolong
Tea and the treasure of Oolong Tea. It grows in the area governed
by Wuyishan City.
The meaning of Wuyi rock-essence tea: It¡¯s Oolong Tea with unique flavor grown
in specific natural ecological environment in Mount Wuyi, bred and
cultivated from proper tea trees and made with unique traditional
technology.
The traditional varieties of Wuyi rock-essence tea are: Shuixian, Rougui,
Wuyicaicha, Aijiaooolong and so on.
Rare varieties: Chosen from Wuyicaicha, there are Big-Red-Robe, Tieluohan,
Baijiguan, Shuijinggui, Bantianyao, Beidou and so on.
Products of Wuyi rock-essence tea are divided into Big-Red-Robe, Mingcong,
Rougui, Shuixian and Qizhong.
 We mainly
plant and make Oolong Tea as well as Black Tea and Green Tea.
The sale of Wuyi Tea: As export was forbidden before Ming Dynasty,
it was mostly for the domestic market. People used to trade tea for
horses in Shanxi and Nermeng, which extended to Russia later on. At
the end of Ming Dynasty, merchants from Holland, England and France
came to purchase Wuyi Tea and sold it to European markets. Nowadays,
besides export, Wuyi rock-essence tea is mainly sold to south Fujian and Guangdong
and is beginning to enter markets of North China. Black tea is still
sold to European countries.
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