Hunan Baishaxi Tea Factory Co., Ltd., formerly known as Hunan Baishaxi Tea Factory, was founded in 1939 and has a history of nearly 80 years. As the birthplace of pressed tea in the country and the cradle of marginal tea, Baishaxi has created several firsts in the history of pressed tea in China, including the first black brick tea, the first brick tea, and the first flower brick tea. In the past, black tea was mainly used as a border tea, and Baishaxi has always been a designated production unit of border tea in Northwest China, but in the late 90s of the 20th century, due to the planning model of state-owned enterprises is difficult to adapt to the development needs of the market economy, the development of enterprises lags behind, resulting in losses year after year, until 2007, Baishaxi was restructured into a joint-stock enterprise, and the focus was changed from border sales to domestic sales, embarking on the road of marketization.
Baishaxi is located in the hometown of China's black tea - Anhua East Gate, with a "company agreement" tea garden of 8,000 acres, and the construction of two domestic leading clean brick tea production lines, three-dimensional brick tea molding workshop, black tea raw material sorting and purification workshop, annual production capacity of more than 20,000 tons, second to none in the industry, in addition to the nationwide layout of more than 2,000 marketing outlets, some products are exported to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and Japan, Germany, Russia, Southeast Asia and other overseas regions, with an annual output value of 300 million yuan. With an annual tax payment of 30 million yuan, it has won many honorary titles such as "Top 100 Enterprises in the National Tea Industry", "Leading Enterprise of Agricultural Industrialization in Hunan Province", "China Famous Trademark", etc., and is also the drafting unit of national standards related to Anhua black tea.
There are many types of Anhua black tea, including "three bricks, three tips and one flower roll", if you want to pick out the most representative category, it must be Fu brick tea. Baishaxi Royal Series Fu Brick Tea, with one bud, two or three leaves picked before and after the valley rain as the raw material, using the unique flower drying process of Fu brick tea, the brick surface is smooth and symmetrical, the tightness is suitable, the golden flowers are lush, the taste is mellow but not astringent, with a strong fungus flower fragrance and pine smoke fragrance, 318g is priced at 110 yuan; It is also a royal series, if you like the old fragrance of old tea, you can choose the brick tea produced in 2013, 318g is priced at 200 yuan. The brick surface of the brick tea is printed with a pattern to distinguish it from the black brick tea, the brick tea and the black brick tea have the same process, both do not contain golden flower fermentation, the new tea taste is slightly astringent, the price mainly depends on the grade of tea raw materials and the year of aging, and the overall price is cheaper than the brick tea.
Flower roll tea is also a major feature of Anhua black tea, also called Qianliang tea, which is built in a long cylindrical basket with a stick hammer, shaped by rolling and stepping, and naturally fermented after about 50 days of sun and night dew, weighing about 36.25 kg, suitable for heavy lovers of Anhua black tea. The first experience can start with a small size of 100 taels of tea or 10 taels of tea, of which 100 taels of tea is directly cut tea cakes, 180g is priced at 59 yuan; The price of 362g of premium ten taels of tea is 185 yuan. Xiangjian tea is mainly loose tea, compared with brick tea and flower roll tea, the fresh leaf raw materials are more tender, the taste is sweet, and it is also more convenient to drink, suitable for newcomers to taste, Baishaxi entry-level Tianjian tea 200g is only sold for 125 yuan, and the price of more than 3 years old tea ranges from 200 to thousands of yuan.