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丨Author: Village Girl Chen
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Recently, it has been obvious that the air around it has become very dry.
Of course, it cannot be compared with the dry nature of the north.
Once visited a city north of , the young and ignorant village girl Chen did not know how to pay attention to moisturizing at that time.
I only started to experience the pain and dryness of northerners after winter.
After washing a few pieces of clothes, hang them near the window, and the clothes are dry when they come back.
After taking a shower, I also felt that my skin was very tight-dry.
There, people seem to become particularly fond of drinking water.
is not like when I was in Fuzhou, I just wanted to drink some cold drinks.
I want to apply body lotion from time to time, and start applying facial mask frequently, but it does not block the path of skin collapse.
I suddenly understood why Li Mahua was blowing the heating back then and left the bedding abroad.
It seems that autumn is not only sad, but also annoying dryness.
Having said this, I remember that tea friends often come to ask questions about tea storage recently.
is nothing more than saying that since is so dry in autumn, can you occasionally open the box containing white tea to get some breathing?
At the beginning, the village girl Chen felt that there was no solution.
The white tea in the carton is staying well, why should it be breathable?
Unexpectedly, the tea friend’s answer was very naive.
The other party said, it has been sealed for more than half a year, and I am worried that the tea will be stifled inside and want it to breathe a little fresh air.
is another serious and lovely tea friend, and let’s go to village girl Chen to answer this question.
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Autumn is very dry, can white tea not be sealed? Of course not.
You should know that white tea is a kind of tea that is extremely fond of dryness and fears wetness. The characteristic of
can also be traced back to the production process of white tea.
The craft of white tea is simple, it is not fried, kneaded, or finished, and it is mainly withered and dry.
The purpose of these two steps is ultimately to discharge the moisture in the tea leaves and stabilize the quality. There are also regulations in the national standard that the moisture content of finished white tea shall not be higher than 8.5%.
This is the minimum requirement and the bottom line of white tea.
Some masters with excellent skills will even control the moisture to a lower level, below 7%, or below 5%.
and white-black silver needle , which was written by Master S, has a moisture content as low as 3%, aiming at export standards.
went all out to avoid the excess water vapor affecting the quality of the white tea.
Therefore, compared with other teas, white tea needs to pay more attention to sealing in storage.
In addition, white tea has another unique feature, that is, it can be stored for a long time.
This means that putting white tea in a sealed and dry environment is a protracted war.
For example, there are some teas with a short shelf life. Even if the seal is not done well, you can experience the best flavor as long as you finish it in a short time.
But white tea is different, and its simple craftsmanship also gives it the value of long-term collection.
If the quality of the white tea is good, and then ensure proper storage, it will become more and more fragrant and complete a gorgeous transformation.
On the contrary, if the white tea is exposed to the air and absorbs a large amount of water vapor, it will easily become damp and deteriorated.
As time goes by, water molecules gradually erode the nutrients of white tea.
not only weakens its aroma and becomes thinner in the soup, but also produces various miscellaneous and strange smells, which completely turns into inferior tea.
Let’s talk about it again, the air in autumn is indeed very dry.
But even so, you can't take it lightly, because the water vapor in the air is everywhere, it's just a matter of the content.
Furthermore, even in the autumn and winter seasons in the north, the climate is extremely dry.
In this case, the box containing the white tea is opened. Even if it does not get severely damp, it is inevitable that will run .
Therefore, for the sake of your beloved white tea, it is better not to take risks.
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Does white tea need to be unboxed regularly and breathable?
is not required.
Someone outside the world suggested that tea is very similar to humans, and both need a comfortable environment to sleep peacefully.
people feel comfortable, and tea will naturally feel comfortable.
Perhaps this is why the saying "people need to breathe fresh air, and tea also needs it."
However, this is not the case.
people are animals, while tea leaves are tender stems picked from plants and are finished products after processing.
So, how can the two be equated simply and roughly?
For example, people need to bask in the sun, replenish energy, and promote calcium absorption, but most tea leaves need to be stored away from light, and strong light will lose their quality.
For example, people need to obtain nutrition from food to survive, but tea does not.
The more or less of the endogenous substance is determined from birth.
If this is the case, it is better to follow the rules of tea storage, sealed, dry, avoid light, cool, and have no odor . The benefits of
sealing, in addition to isolating the water vapor and odor from the outside, can also better gather the inner quality of white tea.
The bad things outside cannot be in, but the good things inside cannot be out.
In this way, the white tea can transform into abundant inclusion substances under a sealed environment.
Just imagine, the so-called unboxing and breathability is just consuming the nutrients of white tea.
In the primary stage, white tea is still running out of breath, the aroma becomes lighter, and there is no obvious sign of moisture.
At that time, if the carton could be resealed immediately, the fragrance would be gathered, and the loss could be stopped in time.
will develop further downward, and the water vapor accumulated in the carton will become more and more, and they will all become factors that threaten the life of white tea.
At that time, it will be damp, spoiled, moldy, sour, stool, chocolate, and moldy, and will come to you one by one.
Don’t let yourself be overly concerned, ruining a whole box of good white tea.
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How should white tea be saved in autumn?
is still the old rule, three-layer packaging method, off the wall and off the ground, dry and avoid light.
In fact, no matter which season, there is no big difference in the way of storing tea.
However, in a humid and rainy spring, we need to pay more attention to the humidity in the room. We cannot exceed the standard, and it is best not to exceed 45%.
Some tea friends choose to turn on the dehumidifier to keep the room dry, which is also a good way to do it.
In the hot summer, we should pay special attention to the indoor temperature and humidity.
temperature does not exceed 25℃ and cannot be too hot.
avoids being placed in windowsills, kitchens, etc., where heat can be directly exposed to.
When turning on the air conditioner in summer, you can also cool down the room where white tea is stored.
The temperature and humidity must be within the appropriate range in order to ensure that the white tea is best protected.
There is no humidity and temperature alone, so the tea leaves cannot cause mildew.
Although high temperature will consume part of the internal quality of tea, the water vapor is still more lethal, and high temperature and high humidity are even more "strong combination", which can be called a white tea killer.
In autumn and winter, it is not so difficult to store tea.
The temperature is suitable and the climate is dry. As long as you make sure you seal it yourself and use the three-layer packaging method to protect the white tea layer by layer, there is basically no big problem.
Never do this in one go. Unboxing, breathability, and ventilation are unnecessary behaviors.
What we usually call ventilation refers to the room used to store white tea. The air should not be too turbid and should be ventilated from time to time.
When ventilating, it is naturally not to let the window open, it only needs to have a small gap.
allows the fresh air outside to be replaced, discharge the dirty air, and keep the indoor air circulating for a period of time.
instead of opening the carton, letting the white tea be exposed directly to the air and breathe in big mouthfuls.
This will not only be of no benefit, but will allow it to age faster until the end of life.
《5》
Is it difficult to save tea?
Personally, I believe that there is nothing simple in the world.
The simpler the thing seems, the more secret it is, the less simple it is.
So everyone says that life is full of knowledge.
So, the same is true for storing white tea. You cannot take it for granted and follow the rules.
cannot see light, cannot contact water vapor, cannot be too high, cannot be odor around, cannot be unboxing frequently...
As long as the village girl Chen is following the method mentioned by the village girl Chen, it is actually not difficult to store tea.
Moreover, drinking old white tea that I carefully saved is also a kind of glory and pride.
Nothing is difficult in the world, I am afraid of those who are interested.
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Xiao Chen Tea Event Village Girl Chen, a columnist and the chief writer of the original innovative media of the tea industry, the white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes" has published the white tea monograph "Notes on White Tea Tasting". From 2016 to 2020, more than 4,000 original articles have been written.
