Luzhou Fengyu Tea

Luzhou Fengyu Tea

　　Luzhou Fengyu Tea is a famous specialty tea variety from Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Grown in the Meiling Mountain Range—known as the hometown of early-spring premium teas in Sichuan—the tea is named for its resemblance to a phoenix’s feather. It is characterized by a fresh, mellow flavor and is a naturally grown, pollution-free tea product. It has won numerous provincial and national quality awards.

　　Among the world’s most revered beverage cultures, both wine and tea have blessed humanity for millennia, serving as symbols of status and refinement. Luzhou wine is celebrated across the globe, while Luzhou tea boasts a long history—dating back to the Tang and Song dynasties when it was listed as tribute tea. Nature’s wonders bestow treasures upon the world, and Luzhou wine along with Luzhou Fengyu green tea are two such gifts bestowed upon the ancient city of Jiangyang. This is Luzhou’s blessing and pride. While Luzhou wine is known worldwide, the fact that Luzhou produces some of China’s finest green tea remains relatively unknown.

　　The Tang Dynasty tea sage Lu Yu wrote in his Classic of Tea: “Tea is produced in Luzhou…” The Song Dynasty work Comprehensive History of Tea and Huang Tingjian’s Tea Boiling Record mention “Meling tea from Naxi, Luzhou,” listing it as tribute tea. The Meiling Mountain Range in Naxi, Luzhou, is perennially shrouded in mist, with a moist climate and fertile soil that are ideal for tea cultivation. The top-tier green tea refined as Luzhou Fengyu is grown right here.

　　Luzhou Fengyu Tea is a flat-shaped single-bud tea produced in the Meiling Mountain Range—known as the hometown of early-spring premium teas in Sichuan. It is named for its resemblance to a phoenix’s feather. With “freshness, mellowness, and richness” as its defining characteristics, it is a naturally grown, pollution-free tea product. It has earned multiple provincial and national quality accolades. In 2001, it won the Gold Award at the China (Chengdu) International Tea Expo and was also honored as a Famous Brand Product at the China International Agricultural Expo. It enjoys the reputations of being the “Earliest Premium Tea in Southern Sichuan” and “For great green tea, Fengyu comes first.”

　　The Legend of Luzhou Fengyu Tea:

　　Legend has it that long ago, Jin Feng Mountain was not called by its current name but was once known as Guotian Mountain. The mountain folk lived in harmony and happiness, but at some point, their peaceful lives were shattered by an illness. A relentless plague devoured lives, leaving people helpless and prompting many to flee their homes. At this critical moment, a fairy from Qingcheng Mountain arrived at Guotian Mountain. Because she rode a phoenix, people called her the Phoenix Maiden. With her exceptional medical skills, the Phoenix Maiden discovered that the plague was a chronic illness. She distributed elixirs she had refined—made from tea—to the villagers. After consuming them, the plague subsided, and the villagers returned to their joyful lives.

　　To commemorate this beautiful and kind-hearted maiden, the ancestors of the local mountain folk renamed Guotian Mountain “Jin Feng Mountain,” changed the Heavenly Lake to Phoenix Lake, and named the maiden’s elixirs “Fengyu Tea,” which has been passed down to this day.