观音托梦所赐，安溪铁观音名不虚传

安溪是福建省东南部靠近厦门的一个县，为闽南乌龙茶的主产区，种茶历史十分悠久，早在唐代已有茶叶出产。

安溪境内雨量充沛、气候温和，适宜于茶树的生长，而且经历几代茶人的辛勤劳动，选育繁殖了一系列茶树良种，目前境内保存的良种有60多个，铁观音、黄旦、本山、毛蟹、大叶、乌龙、梅占等都属于全国知名良种。因此安溪有“茶树良种宝库”之称。

在众多的茶树良种中，品质最优秀、知名度最高的要数“铁观音”了，铁观音原产安溪县西坪镇，已有近300年的历史，关于铁观音品种的由来，在安溪还留传着这样一个故事。

相传清乾隆年间，安溪西坪上尧茶农魏荫制得一手好茶。他每日晨昏泡茶三杯供奉观音菩萨，10年从不间断，可见礼佛之诚。一夜，魏荫梦见在山崖上有一株透发兰花香味的茶树，正想采摘时，一阵狗吠把好梦惊醒。第二天果然在崖石上发现了株与梦中一模一样的茶树，于是采下一些芽芽带回家中，精心制作。制成之后茶味甘醇鲜爽，精神为之一振，魏认为这是茶之王，就把这株茶挖回家进行繁殖。几年之后，茶树长得枝叶茂盛。因为此茶美如观音重如铁，又是观音托梦所获，就叫它“铁观音”。从此铁观音就名扬天下。

铁观音是乌龙茶的极品，其品质特征是茶条郑曲，肥壮圆结，沉重匀整，色泽砂绿，整体形状似蜻蜓头螺旋体、青蛙腿。冲泡后汤色多黄浓艳似琥珀，有天然馥郁的兰花香，滋味醇厚甘鲜，回甘悠久，俗称有“音韵”。

英语翻译

Anxi is a county close to Xiamen in the southeast of Fujian Province. It is the main producing area of Oolong tea in southern Fujian. It has a long history of growing tea, and tea has been produced as early as the Tang Dynasty.

With abundant rainfall and mild climate, Anxi is suitable for the growth of tea trees. After several generations of tea people’s hard work, a series of improved tea varieties have been selected and bred. There are currently more than 60 varieties preserved in the territory, such as Tieguanyin, Huangdan and Benshan. , Hairy Crab, Daye, Oolong, Mei Zhan, etc. are all well-known fine varieties in the country. Therefore, Anxi is known as "Treasure House of Tea Tree Varieties".

Among the many varieties of tea trees, the best quality and the most well-known is "Tieguanyin". Tieguanyin is originally produced in Xiping Town, Anxi County. It has a history of nearly 300 years. The origin of the Tieguanyin variety is still passed down in Anxi. With such a story.

According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Wei Yin, a tea farmer in Shangyao, Xiping, Anxi, made a good tea. He makes three cups of tea in the morning and evening to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva, and he has never stopped for 10 years, showing the sincerity of worshipping the Buddha. One night, Wei Yin dreamed that there was a tea tree on the cliff with the fragrance of orchids. When he was about to pick it, a dog bark awakened the dream. The next day, I found a tea tree exactly like the one in my dream on the cliff, so I picked some buds and took them home to make meticulously. After the tea was made, the tea taste was sweet and refreshing, and the spirit was refreshed. Wei believed that this was the king of tea, so he dug this tea home for reproduction. A few years later, the tea trees grew lush and leafy. Because this tea is as beautiful as Guanyin and as heavy as iron, and it is obtained from the dream of Guanyin, it is called "Tie Guanyin". Since then Tieguanyin has become famous all over the world.

Tieguanyin is the best quality of oolong tea. Its quality is characterized by the tea strips Zhengqu, thick and round, heavy and uniform, sandy green in color, and the overall shape is like dragonfly helix and frog legs. After brewing, the color of the soup is more yellow and rich and bright like amber, with a natural fragrant orchid fragrance, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the sweetness is long.