霜降Frost's Descent
青心大冇
Qīngxīn Dàmǎo

Qingxin Dapang

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Local Taiwan cultivar with plump, very downy buds: the main cultivar for Oriental Beauty, grown mostly in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli.

Botanical
Camellia sinensis
Kind
clonal cultivar
Origin
Taiwan

Also sold or written as 5#

Chinese variants
  • 青心 / 大冇Qīngxīn / DàmǎoQingxin / DapangShort names (TRES).
Translations and trade names
  • Chin Shin Dah Pan
  • Qing Xin Da Mou
  • Chin-Shin-Dapan
  • Da Pan / DapangFrom the Taiwanese Hokkien reading of 冇, phànn ("loose, not compact") in the MOE Taiwanese dictionary.

Names and ambiguities#

How to read 冇

Romanisations vary (Dapang, Dah Pan, Da Mou). TRES writes "Dah Pan", after the Taiwanese Hokkien reading phànn. 冇 is not in the MOE Mandarin dictionary; the pinyin mǎo used here is the reading Wiktionary gives, conjectured from Cantonese.

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Notes#

TRES does not list it for Baozhong.

Teas made from it#

台湾乌龙茶
Taiwan oolong Táiwān wūlóngchá
Grouping for Taiwan's partly oxidised teas, from strip Baozhong (about 8–25% oxidation per TRES) to Oriental Beauty (50–60%), mostly from Qingxin Wulong and Jinxuan.
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东方美人茶
Oriental Beauty Dōngfāng Měirén chá
Highly oxidised oolong from leafhopper-fed young shoots, especially Qingxin Dapang, associated with the Hakka tea districts of Hsinchu and Miaoli.
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Sources#

  1. Government and public institutionsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Cultivar-description page. Note: it says best for 椪風茶 and 烏龍茶, green tea next; it does not mention 包種茶.

  2. Government and public institutionsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Short trait descriptions of 青心烏龍, 青心大冇, 臺茶12/13/18/19/20/21, 四季春. Source of the TRES 'milk aroma' (牛奶香味) statement for 金萱 and the 'selected by Muzha farmers' statement for 四季春.

  3. Government and public institutionsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Aliases, leafhopper requirement, processing, production districts. TRES uses the common name 茶小綠葉蟬 without a Latin name.

  4. Government and public institutionsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Introduction gives Taiwan's tea area (~1.2萬多公頃, >90% small-leaf) and ranks the main cultivated cultivars.

  5. Reference worksaccessed 2026-10-18

    Taiwanese reading phànn, "loose, not compact". The Mandarin dictionary mirror has no entry for 冇.

  6. Reference worksaccessed 2026-10-18

    Gives Mandarin mǎo (conjectured from Cantonese) and mǒu.