Longjing Changye is a high-quality, early-sprouting, cold-resistant new Longjing tea cultivar

"Longjing Changye" is a new green tea cultivar bred by the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with early sprouting, high quality, cold resistance and resistance to pests and diseases. It passed the appraisal of the National Tea Variety Approval Committee in 1994.

1. Quality characteristics: Suitable for making flat-shaped famous premium green tea and bulk green tea, with excellent quality. The Longjing tea made from it has a slender, upright, pointed and flat, smooth appearance, an emerald green color with a slight yellow tint, a prominent, high, fresh aroma, and a fresh, mellow taste. Its biochemical components: spring tea fresh leaves contain 4.1% amino acids and 18.6% tea polyphenols.

2. Yield level: This cultivar generally yields more than 210 kg per mu, an increase of 8.2% over Fuding Dabaicha.

3. General agronomic traits: A clonal variety, belonging to the shrub type, medium-leaf category, early-sprouting type. The plant is relatively upright with dense branching; the leaves are green, the buds and leaves are yellow-green with relatively few trichomes, and the weight of 100 buds is 36.2 g; the new shoots have strong tenderness retention; spring tea sprouts early, generally germinating in mid-March, and by the end of March it can reach one bud and one leaf; both cold resistance and drought resistance are strong.

4. Suitable promotion areas: Suitable for planting in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei tea regions. 5. Key points of cultivation techniques: Appropriate close planting can be used at planting time.