您现在的位置：关于中国 About China / 中国旅游 Chinese Travel / 地方特产 Local Color 安溪铁观音 安溪县位于中国东南福建省中部地区，此地海拔适中，气候温暖，雨量充沛，土质中多烂石砾壤，是茶树种植的上佳之地。出产的“铁观音”以其品质优良，味道香醇，被誉为中国茶中的精品。 “铁观音”既是茶的名称，也是茶树品种的名称，它的栽培距今已有近200年的历史。因其茶叶紧结，沉重如铁，外形如同观音双手合掌那样，故名“铁观音”。铁观音茶每年分为春茶、夏茶、暑茶、秋茶四种，其中以春茶品质最好，产量最大。铁观音干茶带有轻微的清香味。优质铁观音用开水冲泡后，汤色金黄，具有独特的香味，还略带有桂花或兰花的香气。饮后齿颊留香，回味悠长。此茶非常耐泡，冲泡七遍后仍有余香。 铁观音鲜茶叶采摘以后，要经过晾青、晒青、再晾青、做青、烤青、揉捻、初焙、包揉、复焙、复包揉、文火慢烤、簸拣等十几道工序，方能使成茶具有独特的色、香、味、形。 铁观音茶中含有多种生物碱、维生素、几茶素、单宁、蛋白质以及芳香油等物质，具有清心明目，减肥美容，防治动脉硬化和癌症，减轻幅射性伤害等功能，常饮对人的健康大有裨益。除在国内大受欢迎外，铁观音还远销到东南亚、日本、欧美各国，在国际茶叶市场享有很高的声誉。 Anxi Tieguanyin Tea Anxi in central Fujian Province is one of the best tea-planting areas with its warm temperature, plenty rainfall and fertile soil. Tieguanyin tea produced here is widely known for its good quality and sweet fragrance. Tieguanyin is not only a name for the tea but also for the tree. The tree is not plump, and the branches hang down loosely. The leaves are thick and dark green, with their edges a little folded like the folded palms of Kwan-yin (the Buddhist priestess). It is because its color is dark green, its heaviness can be compared to iron, and its posture like that of Kwan-yin that it is named Tieguanyin (Iron Kwan-yin). Tieguanyin has four types -- spring tea, summer tea, sunstroke prevention tea, and autumn tea, of which spring tea has the largest annual production. The quality of Tieguanyin differs according to its grades. Generally speaking, the spring tea is the best, then the autumn tea, and the least precious is summer tea. Tieguanyin's manufacturing procedures are quite complicated. The leaves of the manufactured tea are tight and dark green. First-grade Tieguanyin is coated with a thin layer of frost because caffeine evaporates with the water during its processing. When brewed by water, a natural fragrance of orchid comes out and the tea has a pure and heavy aroma. If it is served in a small and exquisite tea set, by smelling it first and then tasting it, you will have endless aftertaste in your mouth. In the process, Tieguanyin has less wilting than other tea, adding more time to the process of making; after the heating process, re-crumpling is applied to hold the leaves with cloth and crumple it to make leaves tight. After re-crumpling and re-heating, small fire should be applied to heat it to vaporize the water inside the leaves. The caffeine, as the water vaporizes, sublimes on the surface as a layer of frost, called "efflorescent". It is an important factor to judge the quality of Tieguanyin to be with or without dark green efflorescent. Tieguanyin is one of the best brands of the oolong teas produced in Fujian. It contains quite a lot of healthy substances like alkaloid, vitamin, protein and fragrant oil, etc. Since it is good for health and beauty in recent years, Tieguanyin has even been introduced to in Japan, South East Asia, Europe and America, enjoying worldwide reputation.