What is blooming tea

Blooming tea also called Flowering Tea, it is made of tea leaves and edible flowers, after shaping, tying and other processes, and made into blooming teas with different appearances. When it is brewed, one or several "camellia" will rise slowly, and the tea leaves and flowers will stretch gracefully in the water, displaying different postures, ups and downs, bright and dazzling.

When and how blooming tea is developed?

The first blooming tea is named ‘Huangshan Green Peony’ which was made by Fang Wang in 1986. According to Fang Wang recollection, one day he sees his mother was tying dry vegetable, so he thinks does it work on the tea? In order to confirm his guess, He ties and dry fresh tea leaves which was picked from tea garden, then brewed it with hot water, but the test was fail. He found the inside of tea leaves doesn’t dry and outside is too dry. He changes the processes, this time he dries tea leaves firstly then tie it up, and it can open as he envisioned.

Later, Fang Wang brought his tea-making experience to impoverished mountainous areas, held more than 300 training courses of various kinds, and trained more than 50,000 people. In addition to coaching tea farmers to improve the quality of traditional famous tea, he also used his invented technology to shape tea Increase the added value of tea from tea growers.

How to make a blooming tea?

a.  Picking the tea buds as blooming tea material, sorting and tie the tea material.

b.  Sewing the flowers to make different blossom shape.

c.   Fix the different blooming tea shape with cotton cloth.

Maybe you would see ball shape you would see normally, but there are other’s kinds of shape can be made such as heart shape, mushroom shape, bullet shape etc.

 

How to select blooming tea?

A good blooming tea must tight, well-balanced, clear. It would open smoothly and completely in the hot water with little or less leaf drop. The flower also looks good and fresh.

You would read some article said there are many effects of blooming tea, but to be honest blooming tea is more ornamental than functional. Enjoy your blooming tea!