Chinese Green Tea Map

Rock Tea is an ancient tea. A 10th century book Tea Guide praises its clear green brew as green milk. In the year of Emperor Dao-Guang (1830), there were still two varieties in the green tea - Bud Tea and Leaf Tea. However, both of them were lost some years later until 1970 when its production resumed. Though this green tea was named in top four in the province, its production remain limited in small scale.

The harvest start from Pure Brightness, a Chinese solar term around April. The standard picking is one shoot with one or two young leaves. Its five making steps are spreading, withering, roasting, shaping and drying. It would need 30,000 leaves for one pound of green tea.

Jinghua Mountain, stretching 160 square miles in the north of the county, is the cradle of Taoism. Its overlapping huge rocks give the tea name.