What are the methods and steps of picking tea?

1, generally speaking, picking should be carried out on sunny days, picking in the morning, picking at noon and finishing on the same day. Specifically, half an hour after sunrise, avoid the high water content of fresh leaves, which is not conducive to withering and fixation. Generally, the picking work is completed between 10 am and 12 am.

2. Young tea trees should be "mainly cultivated, supplemented by harvesting, topping and protecting edges, high harvesting and low cultivation, and light harvesting and high awning"; Adult tea trees are mainly harvested, supplemented by cultivation, and combined with harvesting and cultivation.

3, timely picking, "three days early picking is treasure, three days late picking is grass", and the picking time of each kind of tea is related to the quality of finished tea; Do batch mining, first mining, then mining.

4. When picking, don't pinch the tea with your nails, don't pinch it tightly with your hands, make the bud leaves complete, prevent the leaves from being polished, and don't fold or lick the branches; Pick flat leaves and abnormal bud leaves as much as possible.

5, put it in the tea basket and don't press it too tightly, so as not to crush the bud leaves and increase the leaf temperature; Fresh leaves should be placed in the shade, harvested in time, and transported to the tea factory at least once a day at noon and at night.

6. Green containers should be clean, breathable and free of peculiar smell; In the process of transporting fresh leaves, do not pile up under heavy pressure.

7. When picking tea, the standard should be reached first, and the small ones should be kept, not the big ones, the small ones, the old ones and the tender ones. When picking tea, hold the part of the new tip to be picked with your thumb and forefinger, with the forefinger slightly upward, and pick it with a gentle lift. In addition, when picking, keep the integrity of the bud leaves, do not hurt the bud leaves, and do not pick old terrier and old leaves. You are a qualified old tea farmer if you give consideration to the top, bottom, left and right.