Today let’s talk about my favorite – the 88 Qingbing, which is the representative work of the Yunnan Qizi cake.。
In the last century, several state-owned tea factories in Yunnan were collectively referred to as Zhongcha Yunnan Province Company. From 1988 to 1992, Zhongcha Yunnan Province Company purchased and sold the same formula. This formula was developed in 1975. This tea was called “Zhongcha Brand” Qizi Cake Tea. In 1988, Mr. Chen Guoyi of Hong Kong Tea Art Paradise Company sold this tea to the North American market. Mr. Chen saw that this tea was different from the previous Pu’er cooked tea cakes. This raw tea cake had a green taste because it was too new, but the seven bubbles had a lingering fragrance, and the aroma was high and long. Mr. Chen finished picking up the shipment in four installments. During this time, he found that the tea had been stored in the Hong Kong warehouse for a long time, and the balance of the aged flavor in the storage was getting heavier, and the original aroma was gradually lost. But in the Kunming warehouse, the green cake stored gradually disappeared with the passage of time, and the aroma of the tea leaves became higher and higher. It turned out that this difference was caused by the different climatic conditions of the two places.
Therefore, there were later warehouses for storing Pu’er, which were divided into dry warehouses and wet warehouses, and there was also the saying that Pu’er tea became more fragrant as it aged. Chen Guoyi started distributing this tea in 1988, and southerners loved the word “8”, so it was named Ba Ba Qing Cake.
With the passage of time, people have higher and higher requirements for eight green cakes, and the materials used in this tea are also getting higher and higher. So this classic – eight green cakes was achieved.
