The history of great white tea
In the 20th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1840), Chen Liujiu, who ate six bowls of rice a day and hoed for nine and a half pounds, went to the Lancang River to do business. When he found white tea seeds in Chashanba, he secretly picked dozens of seeds, hid them in a bamboo pole and took them back to Miaota. First planted in the big garden, after several years of cultivation, it grew rapidly, and later expanded to fourteen surrounding tea farms, with an area of three or four acres and an annual output of three to five tons of tea. The old trees planted at that time are still there and are growing well. The stem circumference is 88 cm, the chest circumference is 6 1 cm, and there are 6 main branches. The tree is 4.26 meters high and 35×360 cm wide. The annual output of white tea is six or seven kilograms. This tea tree is the mother tree planted by Chen Liujiu for the first time, and it has been around 150 years.