Amazing Legend Behind White Tea

All we experience today is still a myth or legend behind? Creation of life is a big Mystery. There is no surprise that Tea also follows the same path.


Superb Silver Needle Tea Legends

1.Silvery white bud discovered by Benevolent Girl Langu  and story behind goddess Taimu

Modern researchers agree that the white tea listed in Lu Yu's tea bible "Classics of
Tea" is tea varietals with fewer scholars arguing that white tea history precedes green tea. As we know it today, white tea is characterized by a special processing technique that has only about 220 years of unchallenged history.

A girl named Langu belongs to Fuding country Fuijan ,china where beautiful Taimu Mountain is located, was discovered by History Tea. Langu was a rather friendly child,  who lived near the foothill of Taimu Mountain known as "Mountain Caishan,"Although taking shelter in the mountain cave, she was fascinated during the spring by the beautiful tea tree whose young buds were coated with silver fur. She used these special buds and leaves to treat disease during the out broken epidemic in village.


Through her good deeds, Langu lived a long life as legend has it, and attained immortality. It is believed on the 7th of July of the moon calendar, she ascended to heaven on a nine-colored dragon-horse. Langu has since been known as a goddess ("Taimu," meaning, pre-grandmother).

2. Little Girl Yu Chi 

Long ago, He Zheng village experienced a plague caused by a long time of drought. A heavenly herb which is believed to cure all kinds of diseases grows on the hills of nearby Dong Gong mountain. Many courageous men climbed the mountain in search of the heavenly herb because of the plague but never returned.

There was a family  with three children  named Zhigang, Zhicheng, and Yu Chi, who were eager to find the herb. As the elder brother ascended the mountain he encountered an old man who told him that on top of the mountain there's a well nearby. He also warned the elder brother that he will only succeed if he continues to climb before he finds the plant, before ever considering going back.
Zhigang started climbing and he saw several stones halfway up, without any site of the herb. Then he heard a voice unexpectedly, "Don't dare to go up any further! ”. He was surprised and tried to go back and then unexpectedly transformed himself into a stone. Since Zhigang did not return, Zhicheng wanted to climb the mountain of Dong Gong and met the same fate unfortunately.

Litter Sister departs at the last and she met the same old man, and he gave the same advice. He also offered her some baked baked  rice cake for her journey. As she arrives at the same place threatening her to return with the same odd sounds, she used the rice cake to cover her ears and kept going forward.At last she arrived the top of the hill and found the heavenly herb that grows next to the well. She irrigated the pants, and they started rising and showing flowers. She gathered the seed, and brought it back.She then cultivated the village's heavenly plants to use them to cure illnesses. As it turns out, the divine herb is the tea plant used today to grow fine tea buds covered with white hair called Silver Needle White Tea.


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