Tongbai Yuye Tea

Tongbai Yuye Tea

Tongbai Yuye Tea is a product with a geographical indication for agricultural products.

　　Tongbai Yuye is a specialty of Tongbai County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. Tongbai Yuye tea features a flat and smooth appearance with hidden buds, a glossy green color, and a bright apricot-green liquor. It has a fresh, mellow taste with a long-lasting, high fragrance, and tender, bright green leaves.

　　Tongbai Yuye is one of the specialties of Tongbai County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, and is a type of tea. Tongbai Yuye tea is produced in the JinTai Guan, ShuiLian Dong, and TaoHua Dong areas on the eastern side of TaiBai Ding, the main peak of the Tongbai Mountains—a traditional tea-growing region surrounded by mountains. This area enjoys fertile soil, a mild climate, abundant rainfall, frequent mist, large diurnal temperature variations, and is often filled with trees and wildflowers, creating a unique microclimate. It is a newly developed premium tea crafted by the Tongbai Tea Plantation.

　　The unique natural ecological environment of the Tongbai Mountains gives Tongbai tea its distinctive quality and flavor. As early as the Tang Dynasty, it was renowned in the tea industry, and by the Song Dynasty, it had become one of the thirteen major tea-producing regions in China. Today, it is a key tea-producing county and high-quality tea production base in Henan Province. The county has 50,000 acres of high-quality ecological tea gardens, producing over 1,000 tons of dried tea annually.

　　Tongbai Yuye has a flat and smooth appearance with hidden buds, a glossy green color, and a bright apricot-green liquor. It has a fresh, mellow taste with a long-lasting, high fragrance, and tender, bright green leaves. The tea is believed to help prevent colds, aid digestion, nourish the liver and kidneys, enrich essence and blood, improve hearing and vision, resist aging, protect against radiation, and promote saliva production to relieve thirst. It has received high praise from tea drinkers both in China and abroad, and is considered to be no less esteemed than “West Lake Longjing.”

　　In 1986, Tongbai Yuye was rated as a High-Quality Tea of Henan Province, and in 1997, it was honored as an Award-Winning Famous Tea of Henan Province.