Why is Longjing called Longjing?

Longjing tea is named after Longjing. Longjing is located at the northern foot of Wengjia Mountain in the west of West Lake, which is now Longjing Village. Longjing, formerly known as Longhong, is a round spring pool, which will not dry up in severe drought. It is for this reason that the ancients linked spring with the sea. Among them, Longjing is called Longjing. It is said that Ge Hong was an alchemist here in the Jin Dynasty. There is Longjing Temple in Luohuiwu, about 500 meters away from Longjing, commonly known as the Old Longjing Temple. It was founded in the second year of Ganyou in the Five Dynasties (949), and was originally named "Bao Guo Jian Jing Yuan". It was renamed Shoushengyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty was renamed Guangfuyuan and Yan 'en Yanqing Temple. It took three years in the Ming Dynasty (1438) to move to the well. Now the temple has been abandoned and used as a teahouse.

Historical legends:

Legend has it that a long time ago, the Queen Mother held a grand flat peach party in the sky and invited immortals from all over the world to participate. Prodigies played and sang, offered tea and fruit, and went back and forth endlessly. Just as he was delivering tea with a tea tray, he suddenly heard the boy Sugi shout, "Sister-in-law Xian Di is very ill, rolling and screaming in bed. Go! " Inadvertently, the tea tray tilted and a teacup fell to the ground. The fairy was delirious and blanched, and went into the palace in three steps. At this time, Lv Dongbin figured it out. He took Xian Di's tea tray, gave the only seven cups of tea to the seven-hole fairy, and then left the tea empty in front of him. He took out a magic pill and said to Di Can, "Take it to save your wife and come down to earth to find a cup. I will keep it for you for the time being. " The fairy was very grateful, thanked him and left. "One day in the sky, a few years on the ground." The fairy fell to earth, landed in Hangzhou, became a monk, and went to Xishan to find a teacup. On this day, he saw a mountain crouching like a lion, revealing the valley of Shi Bi. There is a thatched house beside the bamboo forest in the mountain, and an 80-year-old woman sits at the door. The fairy stepped forward and asked, "Old benefactor, what is this place?" The old lady replied, "Call Hui. According to the ancestors, one night, 10,000 golden lights suddenly fell from the sky, and it was called Huiluowu from then on. " The fairy was surprised and happy. She looked around and suddenly her eyes lit up. Isn't that my teacup? It turns out that there is an old stone mortar full of garbage next to my aunt's house, which is covered with green grass. There is a crystal spider silk that hangs straight from the eaves into the stone mortar. Realizing that Spider Spirit was stealing fairy tea, the fairy said, "Old benefactor, can I exchange a gold ribbon for your mortar?" Aunt said, "Do you want this mortar? It's no use keeping it anyway. You can take it! " The fairy thought, I have to find verbena to weave a nine-foot rope, tie it up and take it away. As soon as the fairy left, my aunt thought, this mortar is dirty, how can you get your hands dirty! So I found a spoon, took out all the garbage, poured it in the field where there were 18 tea trees in front of my house, and found a rag to clean it. I didn't want to disturb Spider Jing, but Spider Jing also said that someone had come to grab his tea! A spell, "click" a loud noise, Sun threw the stone into the depths of the ground. The fairy turned the rope and the stone sun disappeared, so she had to return to heaven empty-handed. Later, the "teacup" of the Heavenly Palace, which was driven underground, became a well. Once a dragon came to suck fairy tea, but the dragon left and left a well. This is the legendary Longjing. Things have changed, and so has history. Aunt's hut was transformed into the old Longjing Temple, which was later renamed the Gong Hu Temple in Longjing Village. Eighteen tea trees in front of the temple have been nourished by fairy dew, and the longer they grow, the more lush they are, and the higher their quality is. When Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Wei Fu came to the foot of Lion Peak in Longjing Village, Hangzhou. When the old monk of Gong Hu Temple accompanied Emperor Qianlong on a mountain tour, he suddenly saw several village girls happily picking new buds from eighteen tea trees in front of the temple. Unconsciously, they quickly walked into the tea garden and learned to pick tea. Just picked it for a while, suddenly the eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is ill, please hurry back to Beijing." Qianlong was worried when he heard that the queen mother was ill. He immediately put the tea buds in his hand into a bag and went back to Beijing day and night to pay his respects to the Queen Mother. In fact, the queen mother is not seriously ill, but she is angry, her eyes are red and swollen, and her stomach is uncomfortable. Suddenly, when I saw the arrival of the emperor, my mood improved, and I felt a faint fragrance coming on my face. I asked, "What good things did the emperor bring back from Hangzhou, so fragrant?" Emperor Qianlong was also surprised. I came back without anything. Where did I get the fragrance? Smell it carefully, it does have a strong fragrance, and it comes from the bag. He touched it casually, and it turned out to be a handful of tea from Gong Hu Temple in Longjing Village, Hangzhou. After a few days, it dried up and gave off a strong aroma. The queen mother wanted to try this kind of tea, and the maid-in-waiting served it. Sure enough, it is mellow, full of saliva after drinking, and the aftertaste is mellow and refreshing. After 3 cups, the eye swelling subsided and the stomach was comfortable. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi had a coke and called Hangzhou Longjing tea a panacea. Emperor Qianlong was so happy to see the Empress Dowager, and he smiled happily himself. He sent someone to hand-pick eighteen tea trees and seal them in front of Gong Hu Temple at the foot of Lion Peak in Longjing, Hangzhou. As the imperial tea, they were specially picked every year and dedicated to the Empress Dowager. Since then, [1] Longjing tea has become more and more famous. Eighteen imperial teas have been replanted many times, but this "imperial tea garden" has been preserved to this day and has become a tourist attraction.