Zhejiang is one of China's major tea-producing areas and Longjing tea is 1 as China's best green tea.
Longjing tea became important over three centuries 2. During the Qing Dynasty(朝), it is said that when the famous emperor Qianlong went to visit Hangzhou, he always 3Longjing tea there. He enjoyed it so 4that he named eighteen Longjing tea plants as producers of "imperial(皇家的) tea".
5, one kilogram of Longjing tea is made up of about seven thousand tea leaves. Nowadays, 6 most of the tea leaves are picked by machine, some farmers still keep the tradition of picking the leaves by 7. They say they can find leaves of the proper color and size. Machines can pick leaves 8than man, but they may not be able to classify(分类) them as well as man.
People 9drinking in the tea house. This has been a 10part of the life in Hangzhou since the Song Dynasty. At that time, Hangzhou was the capital of the Song Dynasty. Today, the tea house is one of the places where Hangzhou people most like to go.