Green Tea · FFET10043
Anji White Tea Craft
Anji white tea is a baked green tea whose hand-firing craft is on the national intangible heritage list.
Mural guide
Two hands toss tea leaves in a large steaming iron wok, a bamboo tray is spread with fresh leaves, a bowl of pale green tea and a dish of finished leaves stand beside it, and tea terraces rise in the distance.
Tea whose leaf is fixed, rolled and dried: pan-dried, oven-dried, sun-dried and steamed.
Anji white tea comes from Xilong in Anji County, Zhejiang, and is a baked (hongqing) green tea. The page records a hand-firing process of plucking, fixing and shaping, first baking, second baking and final drying, and the craft entered the national list in 2011.