Qizi Cake Tea
Qizi Cake Tea Attributes
Leaf Shape
Tight, round, and visible
Liquor Color
Maroon
Fragrance
Pure, mellow fragrance
Taste
Rich
Brewed Tea Leaves
Dark liver color
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Qizi Cake Tea Introduction
Seven-son Cake Tea is a famous historical tea and the most important variety of Yunnan Pu’er tea. Each cake weighs 357 grams, or seven taels. Each tube contains seven cakes, a total of seventy-seven forty-nine pieces, representing many children and grandchildren, hence the name Seven-son Cake. In the culture of Yunnan’s ethnic minorities, “seven” is an auspicious number, symbolizing many children, happiness, and a perfect whole. Therefore, Seven-son Cake Tea is often regarded by the Chinese as a symbol of “family reunion.”
Qizi Cake Tea Origin
Yiwu Township, Menghai County, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Pu’er City, and Xiaguan City, Dali, etc.
Qizi Cake Tea Production Process
Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green tea is used as raw material. Especially the raw materials from Menghai area are more suitable for making high-quality Pu’er tea. Sun-dried green tea is made through screening, blending, piling, steaming and pressing, and the degree of piling is relatively heavy. The biggest difference between raw Pu’er and cooked Pu’er is whether it has gone through the “piling” process. The “piling” process is the key to determine the quality. In addition to giving the tea soup a special aroma and mellow taste, it also produces many antioxidant ingredients that are beneficial to human health.
Qizi Cake Tea Purchase Guide
The net weight of each piece of Qizi Cake Tea is generally 357 grams (today’s tea factories will also make it 380 grams or 400 grams to make the cake fuller), with a diameter of 20 cm, a center thickness of 2.5 cm, and an edge thickness of 1.3 cm. Pu’er tea is a type of tea that gets better the older it is. It is best to buy old tea for Qizi Cake Raw Tea. Generally speaking, raw tea can be stored for 10 to 20 years, while cooked tea can only be stored for two or three years. The storage time of ancient tree raw Pu’er can be longer and more beneficial to the body, so whether it is investment or collection, it is more valuable to choose this type of Pu’er. Pu’er tea will involve how to identify the aging period of Pu’er tea. The following methods are for reference only by Pu’er tea lovers. ◎ Before 1950: This period is called “antique tea”, such as Centennial Songpinhao, Tongxing Gongbing, Tongqinghao, Tongchang Laohao, and Songpinjinghao. There is usually a piece of glutinous rice paper with the name printed on it, which is “Neifei”. ◎1950-1968: The so-called “printed tea” means that the word “tea” on the packaging paper is marked in different colors, red for the first batch, green for the second batch, and yellow for the third batch. ◎After 1968: At this time, the tea cake packaging is no longer printed with the “China Tea Company” brand. Instead, each tea factory produces it on its own, collectively known as “Yunnan Seven Cakes”, such as Snow Print Green Cake, 73 Green Cake, etc.
Qizi Cake Tea Quality Identification
◎ Smell the tea: It should have a clear taste, not moldy. ◎ Identify its color: The color of the tea should be like red dates, not black as lacquer. ◎ Taste the tea soup: It should have a mild aftertaste, not mixed with other flavors.
Qizi Cake Tea Brewing Method
Use a small tea bowl or purple clay teapot to brew Pu’er tea, and drink it immediately after boiling water. When brewing, the tea leaves should account for about 20% of the teapot. If it is an aged tea cake, you can use a tea knife to remove some of the tea leaves and ventilate it for two weeks before brewing. In addition, it is best to wake up Pu’er tea before drinking it.
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