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Mòlìxiāng Dāncōng

Mo Li Xiang Dancong

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One of the ten canonical GI aroma types of Fenghuang Dancong: a rare, unscented oolong from Fengxi Zimao (810 m) and Zhuliu (600 m) bush lines whose natural cultivar aroma recalls fresh jasmine blossoms.

Category
Oolong teaOolong tea 乌龙茶
Style
Guangdong oolong
Part of
Phoenix Dancong
Forms
Loose leaf
Region
Cultivars
Fenghuang Shuixian
Harvest
Spring (mid-April in the 600–810 m Fengxi belt).
Definitions
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Character#

Fine, fresh jasmine-blossom (茉莉花) fragrance with a sweet, clean, brisk golden-yellow liquor; unscented and distinct from jasmine-scented tea (茉莉花茶).

Processing#

Dancong processing

  1. 晒青
  2. 凉青
  3. 做青
  4. 杀青
  5. 揉捻
  6. 干燥
  7. 烘焙

As in Phoenix Dancong. No jasmine flowers are added; the aroma is entirely endogenous to the cultivar and oolong bruising.

Also sold or written as 5#

Chinese variants
  • 竹溜茉莉香Zhúliū Mòlìxiāng(Zhuliu Mo Li Xiang)A Fengxi Zhuliu (~600 m) jasmine-aroma line rescued by grafting onto Fenghuang Shuixian rootstock in 1992 before the 150-year-old mother tree died (T/CZTTBZ 001—2021).
Translations and trade names
  • Mo Li Xiang
  • Moli Xiang
  • Jasmine Dancong
  • Jasmine Fragrance Dancong

Names and ambiguities#

Why trade "ten aromas" lists sometimes swap Mo Li Xiang for You Hua Xiang

Both the Chaozhou GI standard (DB4451/T 1—2021) and the naming standard (T/CZTTBZ 002—2021) include 茉莉香 among the ten example aromas, and Zhongguo chashu pinzhongzhi (2001, p. 104) names 茉莉香单枞 as one of the six key cultivated Dancong lines. However, because only two small mother-bush lineages survive in the 2021 grading appendix, commercial overviews such as Jiemian/Chayu (2017) often substitute You Hua Xiang Dancong (pomelo blossom) as the tenth commercial aroma.

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Notes#

Two documented Fengxi lineages and the 1992 rescue grafting#

Appendix A.2 of T/CZTTBZ 001—2021 defines 茉莉香型 by its noticeable natural jasmine-flower fragrance and sweet-mellow taste, and records only two mother-bush lineages—making it the smallest of the ten GI aroma families in the bush inventory:

1. 茉莉香 (Fengxi Zimao): growing at ~810 m in Zimao Village, Fengxi, aged ~160 years (4.24 m tall, 3.84 × 3.22 m crown, 5.2 kg peak yield). 2. 竹溜茉莉香 (Fengxi Zhuliu): originating at ~600 m in Zhuliu Village, Fengxi. The original ~150-year-old mother tree (3.65 m tall, 3.1 kg peak yield) died after local farmers grafted scions onto Fenghuang Shuixian rootstock in 1992, preserving the clonal line in cultivation today.

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Where to buy#

No listings recorded for this tea yet.

Sources#

What these sources support

  1. The Chaozhou geographical indication local standard DB4451/T 1—2021 defines Fenghuang Dancong as oolong tea manufactured within the protected Chaozhou area by traditional craft from lines and cultivars selected or bred from Fenghuang Shuixian (GSCT 17), categorizing finished teas into ten aroma types with physicochemical limits of ≤7.0% moisture and ≥30.0% water extract.

    Full text · Clauses 3–5 (definition, Fenghuang Shuixian planting stock requirement, ten aroma types, and physicochemical table) · checked 2026-11-04

    Scope and limits: Establishes the statutory GI specification for Chaozhou Fenghuang Dancong, whereas the voluntary national standard GB/T 30357.6-2017 defines Dancong generically without a geographic origin requirement.

  2. Zhongguo Chashu Pinzhongzhi (2001, pp. 103–104) documents Fenghuang Dancong as a collective group of 80 superior lines selected from the sexual Fenghuang Shuixian population and named after tree habit, leaf morphology, or aroma, while Appendix A.2 of T/CZTTBZ 001—2021 catalogues 136 named mother bushes across 15 aroma groups.

    上海科学技术出版社 · 2001

    Full text · Cultivar monograph entry for Fenghuang Dancong (凤凰单枞), pp. 103–104, selection history, 80 lines, and separate harvesting/processing · checked 2026-11-04

    Scope and limits: Documents how 'Dancong' evolved from single-bush selection and separate manufacture into propagated clonal lines, meaning a modern Dancong packet is almost always clonal garden tea unless single-tree provenance is independently verified.

  1. Standardsaccessed 2026-10-18
  2. Standardsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Catalogue metadata only; not the full clauses. It identifies status, dates, CCS/ICS and competent bodies.

  3. Government and public institutionsaccessed 2026-10-18

    English-language PDF, 2 pages. It gives the China protection date, the product description, a coordinate and elevation box for the area, and climate and soil data.

  4. Standardsaccessed 2026-10-18
  5. Standardsaccessed 2026-10-18

    Group standard, 5 pages, published 2021-11-11 and in force 2021-12-02. Annex A cites 潮市监〔2021〕33号 on unifying the product name; that report was not found.

  6. 中国茶树品种志 (2001)
    Books and monographs
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  1. Reporting and journalismaccessed 2026-10-18
  2. Academic researchaccessed 2026-10-19

    Primary research abstract. Seventeen finished Dancong samples; chemical clustering at the stated similarity threshold is not a universal replacement for traditional aroma categories.