Wild Gold Tea

Take around 2 grams of the tea leaves with 300 ml of boiled water at the temperature of more than 95 centigrade, and you can enjoy it after 5 minutes. Double the quantity of the tea leaves if you want to use it as a medicine. The tea will taste better if you add sugar and honey.

As we know, the Gold Tea is full of iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium, selenium, protein, VB1, VB2, VBC, and other microelements necessary to human body, and 18 kinds of amino acids. Based on the Lishizehn Herbal Category, the Gold Tea can not only pure hot and counteract poison, but also strengthen stomach and digest food, which was already known by the local people. According to the modern medicine research, the Gold Tea has the functions of anti-inflammation, anti-bacteria, fat decreasing, brain strengthening, and weight losing. Further more, the tea can help those who drinking the tea on a frequent base to adjust their body enginery, strengthen their body function, and improve their anti-disease ability. Except as a kind of medicine, the Gold Tea also can be treated as restorative and sanitarian products. Therefore, it is suitable for everybody, man and woman, old and young.

In addition, it is reported that the name of the Gold Tea is given from a story. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Uprising arrived in the western of Zhejiang, and some soldiers got sunstroken and diarrhea because of high temperature and long fighting. Finally these soldiers were recovered after drinking a local tea presented by the local farmers with the exchange of gold. From then on, the tea is called the Gold Tea.

With the scientific name of the Willowleaf calyx canthus, the Gold Tea is also once called as the Fragrant Tea and the Mountain Calyx Canthus, and it belongs to the Calycanthaceae and the half ever-green shrub. According to the China Wood Sylva, this plant is only grown in the high mountains with an elevation of 3000 meters in Kaihua of Zhejiang.

Kaihua county, the headstream of the Qiantang River, is located in the junction of zhejiang,anhui, and jiangxi three provinces and seven counties. Meanwhile it is also surrounded by Yellow Mountain, Qiandao Lake, and Sanqing Mountain. With such geographical location, Kaihua is characterized with high mountains and flourishing trees, which makes Kaihua be covered by cloud and fog almost all year around. In China, Kaihua is known by not only the Qiantang River Headstream Park but also the Gutian Mountain Natural Reserves. Moreover, Kaihua is entitled as the China Roots-Carve Art Town, the China Longding Famous Tea Town, and China Golden Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) Town. The flouring virgin forest teems with various ancient species, and the wild Gold Tea is one of the examples. It is well known that the tea is of purely natural health care green tea characteristic.

With the scientific name of the Willowleaf calyx canthus, the Gold Tea is also once called as the Fragrant Tea and the Mountain