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Meet Mr. Chen, our farmer from Beipu
Mr. Chen started out working in the technology sector. He grew up enjoying the rich and different flavors of Oriental Beauty Tea because he frequently accompanied his father to Beipu to purchase tea when he was a little boy. He established his own business in Beipu Township to promote tea nine years ago after learning how to make tea from Mr. Jiang, a master who has been teaching tea making in Beipu for four generations.
In contrast to typical tea gardens, Mr. Chen's tea garden has few and unevenly spaced tea trees. In an organic farm, weeds and animals coexist in the tea garden alongside the tea trees. Mr. Chen has made an original observation and has a novel idea for managing tea gardens. He thinks that when there are many stones in the tea garden, the soil has good drainage and is full of trace elements. Additionally, he doesn't want to hinder the tea trees' development since if they receive too much fertilizer, their roots won't be as likely to penetrate the soil deeply enough to absorb trace nutrients from the environment.
Can you spot the tiny green leafhopper? It is one of the most significant insects in the tea garden, requires a naturally occurring habitat to flourish, which is why pesticides should not be sprayed. The tea buds that the little green leaf hoppers chewed off are what give the tea leaves their honey-scented sweetness.
However, because the pinched tea leaves have a tendency to develop unevenly, they can only be harvested by hand, bud by bud. Due to the aging of the working force, the cost of picking tea has gone up in recent years, as has the price of producing tea.
Traditional charcoal roasting is still used to make Oriental Beauty Tea. The maker must endure 20 hour of high temperatures beginning with knocking on the charcoal and lighting the fire and continuing to stir the charcoal in order to burn through it. The tea leaves can be placed on and roasted for 2-4 days up until the temperature of the charcoal fire has steadied.
After a year or two of storage, the flavor of the charcoal-roasted tea will grow richer and sweeter because the far-infrared rays generated by the charcoal can concentrate the scent and flavor of the tea.