Jingshan Tea Spring Tea
Encounter a heart-warming tea container, taking a sip or two of light and elegant tea in the middle of a busy schedule; between touch and vision, clearly comprehend heaven, earth and people of nature and ingenuity.
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- Chinese: míng qián jìng shān chá lǜ chá chūn chá
- Translation: Pre-Qingming Jingshan Tea Green Tea Spring Tea
- Type: Green Tea
- Cultivar: Jingshan Maofeng
- Origin: Yuhang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Harvest Date: 2026/03/20
- Storage Methods: Refrigeration, Sealing, Moistureproof, Avoid light.
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Jingshan Tea Mao Feng — The Tea They Served to Emperors
There is a mountain in Hangzhou where the mist lingers so thick in the early mornings that the tea pickers appear like ghosts moving through cloud. This is Jingshan. And every spring, for just a handful of days before the rains of Qingming arrive, something quiet and extraordinary happens. - This is Jing Shan Cha as it has been made for over twelve centuries—hand-plucked at first light, each leaf a single bud with one tender neighbor, curled by artisans whose fathers learned from their fathers before them. The monks of Jingshan Temple once served this tea to visiting Zen masters, who carried its memory back to Japan and, in their longing for it, planted the seeds of an entire culture. The Japanese tea ceremony, with all its stillness and ritual, begins here. In this leaf.
- When you open the pouch, the scent is the first thing that stops you. Not the bold, grassy punch of common green teas, but something softer—a greenness that feels like the first warm day of spring, a sweetness that hasn't yet decided to be sugar. The leaves themselves are beautiful things: slender, twisted, dusted with the fine silver down that gives Maofeng Tea its name ("fur peaks"), curling inward as if protecting something precious.
- It is the kind of flavor that rewards patience. There is no shouting here. First, a gentle vegetal sweetness, like the heart of snap peas just picked. Then something deeper, a savory note—umami, the Japanese call it, that fifth taste that lingers on the tongue—that comes from the misty highlands where these bushes have grown for generations. Finally, a finish of roasted chestnut, warm and clean, that invites the next sip before you've even swallowed.
- Jingshan Tea is sourced from Pingshan Village at the foot of the Jingshan Scenic Area. The tea leaves are harvested during the first picking before the Qingming solar term and consist mainly of high-grade one-bud and two-leaf tea. After a winter of dormancy, the tea trees accumulate rich nutrients. The low temperatures before Qingming slow the growth of the tea trees, resulting in low yet precious yields.
- This is Chinese Green Tea at its most refined. Not because it is rare (though it is, this pre-Qingming harvest accounting for less than 1% of the region's annual yield), but because it asks something of you. It asks you to slow down. To sit. To notice.
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The monks understood this. They called tea drinking a form of meditation, not because of what it does to the mind, but because of what it asks of the body: stillness, attention, presence.
Drink this Jin Shan Green Tea in the morning, when the light is still low. Drink it alone, with a book, or in the kind of silence that feels like company. Drink it slowly. The first infusion will taste of spring. The second, deeper and rounder, will taste of the mountain itself. By the third, you will understand why, twelve hundred years ago, someone decided that this leaf was worth preserving forever.
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Glass Cup Brewing Method:
The ratio of green tea to water is 1:50, and a glass cup of about 300ml can pour 5g of tea.Pour water into the cup (the water temperature is 80~85°C), pour it slowly along the wall of the cup, and let the tea leaves fully infiltrate. The speed of water injection should not be too fast.
Wait for 3 to 5 minutes, and you can drink the delicious, green tea soup, and then when you drink 1/3 of the teacup, you can refill the water again, usually brew three times.
Customer Reviews
The tea soup is clear, the tea fragrance is strong, and the tea taste is thick.
The tea is fragrant, smooth in the mouth, sweet and refreshing, leaving a fragrance on the lips and teeth after drinking.
It's delicious, the water temperature of 85 degrees is just right, sweet and refreshing, neither bitter nor astringent, true color, true fragrance, true taste ~ the green tea fairy dances in the water.