JohnHou's Chinese Tea Life

The gate to LaoBanZhang village.  A classical house of local farmer's in village.  We had a comparison of GuShu and Shrub' maocha.  Gushu means more than 300 years old, but shrub is under 70 years old.  When we talk about gushu, we must confirm the age of the tea tree. Then we will decide to call that gushu, dashu, organic tree or shrub by ourself.  Both gushu and shrub are picked just in this autumn and almost processed at the same time.  My local partner put both leaves into one basket and asked me to separate gushu from shrub.  What do you think about that? Which is gushu, which is shrub?  The newly processed tea leaves have a fragrance of like grass. They told us these were just picked up days ago. How to describe these leaves? Long. These are really very long. I select one with straight stem and put that on my hand like below. 一芽两叶（yi ya liang ye）which means one bud with two leaves. With t...

This tea was also bought directly from local farmer of YiWu. Their village is called GaoShanCun. GaoShan means high mountain. These tree are around 100 years. These are still not called GuShu or old tree. In my humble opinion, GuShu should be more than 300 years at least. From 100 years to 300 years, we call that DaShu which means Big Tree. From 70 years to 100 years, we call that ShengTai which means Organic Tree. Till 70 year, we call that XiaoShu which means small tree or shrub. This tea was definitely picked up in the spring of 2017. Now is November and near the end of 2017. Thanks to the good storage condition, it is very dry. The flavor is very near wood or dry wood and mixed with aroma like honey or flower. In Chinese, I can directly call this flavor HuaMi Xiang which means flower and honey flavor. Maybe the wood flavor is not because of storage condition or any other reason. Just because it was stored dryly. So the stem has this smell. At the same time, I ...