Author(s)

Enyu Shi

Corresponding Author

Enyu Shi

Abstract

Chaozhou is a major city of tea culture and has a close relationship with tea. According to statistics, there are more than 3,000 tea trees in Chaozhou over 200 years old and more than 10,000 tea trees over 100 years old. Most of these ancient teas are native narcissus tea varieties. Narcissus tea is a new species formed by a local variety of red pungent tea that naturally mutates, and its quality is not high. In recent years, with people’s enthusiasm for high-grade single-cone tea, narcissus tea has been slowly neglected. Many old bundled tea trees have been replaced with new single bundled cultivars. This paper analyzes the composition of tea quality, and urges people to pay attention and protect the old bundled tea trees, so as to rejuvenate the ancient tea trees.

Keywords

Chaozhou tea, Tea tree resources, Protection, Utilization.