椪風茶
The city office ties picking to about a week either side of 芒種 but prints the date as '5月12日' — perhaps a lunar-calendar date or an error; Wikipedia gives 芒種 to 大暑 (June–July).
头份市頭份市
Toufen
Hakka city in Miaoli whose hill villages (興隆, 流東, 珊湖) in the Laoqi area grow 椪風茶 (Oriental Beauty) from 青心烏龍 under organic, unsprayed cultivation.
- Level
- Areacounty-administered city (縣轄市)
- Within
- Taiwan › Miaoli County
At a glance#
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
1610 places shown Across the view · 349 km
43 places shown Across the view · 45 km
Picking calendar#
Terroir#
- Slope and light
- Rainiest in June, driest in November; mean relative humidity 78.4%. Station not named.
Cultivation#
- Cultivars grown
- Qingxin Wulong
- Practice
- Organic, unsprayed; leafhopper-bitten shoots picked as one bud and two leaves.
Local words#
People#
- Hakka 客家人
- About 90% per the article text; 78% in the Hakka population table; Hakka:Hokkien about 8:2.
Market#
- Output
- No sourced output figure.
Misnaming to watch for: Locally 椪風茶 (also 膨風茶); in Miaoli also the old trade name 番庄烏龍.
History#
- 1751Hakka settlers arrive.
- 2015-10-05Toufen town becomes a county-administered city.
Other names and written forms 2#
Chinese variants
- 頭份鎮Toufen — townTownship-level town until 5 October 2015.
Translations and trade names
- Toufen City
Notes#
The Toufen City Office describes its 椪風茶 as grown mainly in Xinglong, Liudong and Shanhu villages in the 老崎 hills, from 青心烏龍, without pesticides (organic cultivation). Leafhoppers (小綠葉蟬, also 浮塵子) feed on the shoots, leaving them short and curled, and one bud with two leaves is picked. The office runs an annual 椪風茶 tea-making competition and evaluation with TRES guidance, and repeats that a British queen once praised the tea as an 'Oriental Beauty' (legend). Toufen is about 78–90% Hakka.