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As early as the middle of the 19th century, jasmine tea was sold well in Europe, America and Nanyang, and the fresh and refined jasmine fragrance was called "the taste of China". The golden age of Chinese jasmine tea can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, when a number of time-honored tea houses were born in the old Beijing city, and Zhang Yiyuan was one of them. Zhang Yiyuan Tea House was founded in the 26th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1900), has a history of more than 100 years, in 1993 was named "China Time-honored Brand" by the Ministry of Commerce, its jasmine tea is well-known in Beijing for its "clear soup, strong flavor, fragrant entrance, endless aftertaste" characteristics. Compared with other time-honored tea estates in Beijing, Zhang Yiyuan has greater advantages in the integration of production and marketing, and has established more than 30 production bases in Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces, and has more than 200 brand chain stores nationwide, and also exported to the United States, Japan, Malaysia and other countries, with an annual sales revenue of more than 1 billion yuan.
 
Jasmine tea, also known as jasmine tablets, belongs to the category of flower tea, and many people are easy to confuse flower tea with herbal tea. Herbal tea is based on flowers and herbs, which refers to drinks such as roses and chrysanthemums that are directly brewed, and does not contain tea ingredients; Flower tea is made of tea as the main raw material, such as jasmine tea is made of green tea as the raw material tea embryo, which is made by blending and squirting with jasmine flowers to make the tea absorb the floral fragrance. Most of the green tea raw materials of Zhang Yiyuan jasmine tea come from their own tea base in Gehongshan, Xiapu County, Mindong, Fujian, using spring tea as the tea embryo, after deep processing in the local area, it is transported to the standardized industrial park in Hengxian County, Guangxi, the largest jasmine production area in China, and the flowers are picked in the afternoon of the same day to ensure the freshness of the flowers and achieve the best kilning effect.
 
Jasmine tea has the reputation of "making jasmine tasteless and listed as the first fragrance in the world", and the fragrance of jasmine can weaken the slightly astringent taste of green tea and make it more palatable, which is also one of the reasons why northerners, especially Beijingers, like to drink jasmine tea. The number of Zhang Yiyuan jasmine tea products reaches dozens of kinds, including different types of green tea such as Maojian, Xueya, Yinhao, etc., and the price gradient is mainly determined by factors such as the freshness of the tea embryo, the amount of jasmine flowering and the number of kilns. Tea lovers with heavy taste can choose strong fragrance products, 200g jasmine hair tips are priced at 118 yuan, and 240g jasmine tea is priced at 98 yuan. The price of fragrant tea is higher, 100g of jasmine Longhao before the Ming Dynasty is priced at 200 yuan, and jasmine snow buds of the same specification are priced at 150 yuan. If you try it for the first time, you can choose to buy 50g small-sized products, which are packaged in simple kraft paper, and the price ranges from 15 yuan to hundreds of yuan.