On my recent trip I got some tea described by the herbalist as
'forever young green tea'. He said it was similar to LongJing. The
leaves are flat with indentation marks. I made sure he wrote the
characters which never look like typographic fonts. After some work,
I came up with Si4Ji4 meaning 'four seasons' and traditional Chang2
character meaning 'forever/long/length' for the first three characters
followed by the two characters Qing1 Cha2 for green tea. I get some
hits with Google but lousy Internet connection prevent any substantial
web page display. Does this tea ring a bell with anybody.

Jim

PS Sorr, I cant even post the characters.

probably some longjing but not the one from xihu?

no idea..

does it taste good?

The intact leaf is about inch long and thin. It could be processed
like West Lake except for the 'tread marks' like it went through a
press. I see some Google Chinese .CN and .TW references but I hardly
cant even download Google Groups. The taste doesn't hold up to
multiple infusions. It's just another green from some area in China
with it's own taste, light and floral.

Jim

PS My three taels runneth over.

Jazzy wrote:
probably some longjing but not the one from xihu?

no idea..

does it taste good?

On Oct 3, 11:38 pm, Space Cowboy wrote:
On my recent trip I got some tea described by the herbalist as
'forever young green tea'. He said it was similar to LongJing. The
leaves are flat with indentation marks. I made sure he wrote the
characters which never look like typographic fonts. After some work,
I came up with Si4Ji4 meaning 'four seasons' and traditional Chang2
character meaning 'forever/long/length' for the first three characters
followed by the two characters Qing1 Cha2 for green tea. I get some
hits with Google but lousy Internet connection prevent any substantial
web page display. Does this tea ring a bell with anybody.

Jim

PS Sorr, I cant even post the characters.

Get some pics for us and maybe it will help more. I guess your idea
below about a tea "from some place in China" is pretty spot on. The
floral thing sounds kinda like it's zhejiang style instead of being
grassy and green like other places' tea. Maybe the local tea of
Wenzhou called Zao Niu or something similar.

Hi Jim,
your mentioning "indentation marks" kind of reminded me of the
criss-cross pattern of Tai Ping Hou Kui (sometimes called Monkey King).
Since the leaves are pressed flat, I could also see someone comparing
it to Long Jing.
Pictures would definitely help, but it sounds like that would put even
more strain on your connection.

Jo

On 10/04/2007 15:21:06 "Jo" wrote:

Hi Jim, your mentioning "indentation marks" kind of reminded me of the
criss-cross pattern of Tai Ping Hou Kui (sometimes called Monkey King).
Since the leaves are pressed flat, I could also see someone comparing it
to Long Jing. Pictures would definitely help, but it sounds like that
would put even more strain on your connection.

Jo

Taking off from the Tai Ping Houi Kui, its leaves are often very big, not to mention beautiful in a slender, flat, and veined sort of way. But, so many vendors think nothing of sending along a bunch of leaf bits rather than the whole beautiful leaf. No good. I want the whole beautiful leaf or nothing, selfish as I am.
Michael

I'm sure I got the herbalist hand written Chinese characters right.
They don't match Tai Ping Hou Kui. If that leaf has a obvious hatch
or checkered pattern then that is probably what I have in the sense no
other leaf I have looks like it long, slender, hatch.

Jim

PS When I get my Internet connection problem solved I have a new
multimedia computer for problems like this. I might even go YouTube.

Jo wrote:
Hi Jim,
your mentioning "indentation marks" kind of reminded me of the
criss-cross pattern of Tai Ping Hou Kui (sometimes called Monkey King).
Since the leaves are pressed flat, I could also see someone comparing
it to Long Jing.
Pictures would definitely help, but it sounds like that would put even
more strain on your connection.

Jo

Mydnight writes:

On Oct 3, 11:38 pm, Space Cowboy wrote:
On my recent trip I got some tea described by the herbalist as
'forever young green tea'. He said it was similar to LongJing. The
leaves are flat with indentation marks. I made sure he wrote the
characters which never look like typographic fonts. After some work,
I came up with Si4Ji4 meaning 'four seasons' and traditional Chang2
character meaning 'forever/long/length' for the first three characters
followed by the two characters Qing1 Cha2 for green tea. I get some
hits with Google but lousy Internet connection prevent any substantial
web page display. Does this tea ring a bell with anybody.

Jim

PS Sorr, I cant even post the characters.

Get some pics for us and maybe it will help more. I guess your idea
below about a tea "from some place in China" is pretty spot on. The
floral thing sounds kinda like it's zhejiang style instead of being
grassy and green like other places' tea. Maybe the local tea of
Wenzhou called Zao Niu or something similar.

Wu Niu Zao, maybe?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

I was able to sneak a peak at Jing's Early Spring LJ teas including Wu
Niu Zao. Mine looks like any of them at that distance. The hatch
pattern is so prominent but not mentioned there. The Wu Niu Zao
characters dont match but that doesn't mean anything. I wasn't aware
of the varied LJ types and I'm sure this is one (like Tai Ping ;-))
since the herbalist mentioned it was similar to LJ.

Jim

Lewis Perin wrote:
Mydnight writes:

On Oct 3, 11:38 pm, Space Cowboy wrote:
On my recent trip I got some tea described by the herbalist as
'forever young green tea'

Wu Niu Zao, maybe?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

as long is is good to drink with a good price then what the heck! hehe
unless it is such an expensive tea like dragonwell!

Pedigrees aren't that important. As it turns out there aren't that
many unknown teas from China. I thought the hatch marks would help
nail it down.

PS So I'm sitting at my local tea shoppe yesterday drinking a cup of
2007 FF Darjeeling listening to the owner go on and on about the
taste. To me it is just another cup of Darjeeling. It struck me
about the recent discussion of Oriental Beauty. Someones's favorite
versus another tea on the shelf. I realized I'll never get it about
Darjeeling. I told the owner I just give up. I frequent the shoppe
more these days on my bike. He has some teas I don't stock because of
price so I drink them there because any pot or cup is the same price.

Jim

Jazzy wrote:
as long is is good to drink with a good price then what the heck! hehe
unless it is such an expensive tea like dragonwell!