China News Service, Shantou, August 22nd, title: The ancient Chaoshan Shancong tea "drinking" drinking method is popular among young people
China News Agency reporter Li Yiqing
Chaoshan people love to drink tea. The Chaoshan area is known as the "Gongfu Tea Hometown", and the tea culture has a long history.
The Chaoshan Dancong tea, which has a planting history of nearly a thousand years, is a must-use tea for Chaoshan Gongfu tea. It is famous at home and abroad for its unique aroma.
However, with the younger generation of tea-tasting people, the thousand-year-old Chaoshan Dancong tea now has a new drinking method.
The reporter visited and found that the recent milk tea shops and dessert shops in the streets and alleys of Shantou, the treasures of the town shops are mostly unique Dancong milk tea, Dancong lemon tea, etc.
Chaoshan "Fantastic" Dancong tea has become a new "artifact" for refreshing and refreshing young people.
"Unexpectedly, the old Dancong tea in my hometown can also be used as milk tea. It tastes unique and refreshing." Chi Bingna, a customer buying Dancong milk tea, told reporters.
According to industry insiders, black tea has been used as raw material for milk tea for many years.
Over the past two or two years, some merchants have incorporated ancient Dancong tea into milk tea, which has been popular among young people.
Dan Cong Milk Tea, Dan Cong Lemon Tea, Dan Cong Oil Mandarin Tea, Dan Cong Yellow Peel Tea, Cold Extract Grape Dan Cong Tea, Mochi Dan Cong Tea, Brown Sugar Pobo Dan Cong Tea, etc., a series of ancient Dan Cong tea Tea innovative tea drinks emerge one after another, occupying the market.
The integration of traditional Chaoshan Dancong tea and milk tea culture is developing rapidly. Basically all Chaoshan milk tea shops sell innovative Dancong tea drinks, and the price per cup ranges from RMB 10 to RMB 25.
The reporter saw in a milk tea shop that the brewing technique of Shan Cong tea used to make tea drinks was exquisite.
The clerk Xiaona told reporters that if you brew a large amount of tea carelessly, the bitterness of the tea will be brewed. While inheriting the traditional tea brewing method, they combined the coffee cold extraction method and used cold water below 5°C for a long time. Tea, the extracted tea soup is more suitable for making milk tea and fruit tea.
With the addition of fresh yellow peel, the combination of Dancong tea fragrance and yellow peel fragrance is very special, and it is the most popular product in the shop.
The e-commerce platform has broadened the sales channels of the new Chaoshan Dancong tea.
A person in charge of a milk tea shop told reporters that the monthly online order volume of their shop amounts to more than 2,000 orders, and the monthly online + offline turnover can reach 100,000 yuan.
He said that Chaoshan people love to drink tea, and there are 21 brewing procedures for Gongfu tea.
Young people like the unique fragrance of Shancong tea, but they often seldom sit down and brew slowly, prefer to take out and consume quickly, so Fantasia Shancong, a fashionable tea drink with unique Chaoshan characteristics, came into being.
Dancong tea belongs to the oolong tea category, which is mainly produced in Guangdong. The tea is exported to more than 60 countries and regions in the world.
Among them, the planting area of Dancong tea in Fenghuang Town, Chaozhou City is 70,000 mu in 2020. The ancient Dancong tea has become the "golden leaf" for people in mountainous areas to get rich.
Chaoshan Gongfu Tea has been selected into the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List since 2008.
Chaoshan people and Dancong tea have forged an indissoluble bond for nearly a thousand years.
Dancong tea is a ray of "taste of hometown" often missed by overseas Chinese of Chaoshan origin at home and abroad.
Now through inheritance and innovation, the ancient Chaoshan tea culture has a new inheritance among the younger generation.
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