Anhua songzhen

one of the needle-shaped fried green teas. Founded in Anhua County, Hunan Province, from 1959 to 1962. Products are divided into special, first- and second-level. To the shape of straight, beautiful, like pine needles and get the name. Picking standards for a bud and a leaf at the beginning of the exhibition, insect leaves, purple leaves, rain leaves, dewy leaves, stout and too long between the large leaves are not picked. After the fresh leaves are picked, the thin spread in the tray, so that the water is slightly distributed, control water content in 68-70%. The initial process is divided into killing green, kneading, frying blanks, plastic surgery,
drying
and other processes. Kill green with a leaning pot, cast leaves about 400g at a time, the temperature of the pot about 140 degrees C. First with two hands quickly stir-fry, stir-fry to the buds hot hand, immediately refring. The temperature of the pot dropped to about 100 degrees C, between rolling frying, combined with permeable frying, about 3-4 minutes, killing green moderate, quickly out of the pot, thin spread. After the spread of the green leaves, put on the kneading plate to turn around kneading, about 3-4 minutes, the initial roll into a rope, you can be fried blank. Fry the pan at a temperature of 70-80 degrees C and knead the leaves by about 700g. Using shaking frying, after 7-8 minutes, when the tea strip weight loss of about 25%, out of the pot to cool, time about half an hour. Then place the frying leaves in a special kneading box for shaping. The box surface temperature is maintained at 50-55 degrees C and the cast leaf volume is about 550g. Method is to bring tea with both hands, even sweep belt roll, before and after swing push. Dissolve the pieces about once every 5 minutes or so, while disintegling. After 30-35 minutes, when the tea strips lose their stickiness, change the gesture, that is, with both hands put the tea strips into a column form, and then divided into two sections. First take a section, with the palm of your hand, raise about 1.7cm, fingers open, so that the tea strip in the palm of the back and forth, straightened into a strip, scattered in the box. So repeated kneading for about 40 minutes, to the tea bar moisture content of about 15%, the shape of the fine circle straight to moderate. Finally, the plastic moderate tea strip, evenly spread in the kneading box, temperature control at 35-40 degrees C, about 40 minutes, tea strip water content down to about 5%, while hot paper packaging, placed in an ashtray storage for 2-3 days and then removed for manual picking, remove flat, broken and curved strips, so that it is neat and uniform, can be packaged.