What Is Tea Plucking?

Tea picking is a Chinese folk song and dance genre. It is spread in tea producing areas in southern China, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. Also known as "Cha Ge", "Tea Picking Song", "Singing and Picking Tea", "Deng Ge", "Tea Picking Light", "Tea Basket Light" and so on. Tea picking is devoted to the simple emotions of the working people in China, and with its unique artistic thinking, it has a strong breath of life and enriches the positive role of spiritual life.

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"Plucking tea" was originally a kind of tea farmer's production activities in southern China. Most of the pickers were dexterous. With the development of traditional culture, this kind of poetic and artistic image of labor gradually formed a kind of folk in China The song and dance genre is popular in the tea-producing areas of southern China and is used to express the joy of tea planting and tea picking. First seen in Ming

Its historical development can be roughly divided into 3 stages:

A simple "tea song" is a song sung by tea farmers during their work. The genre of tea song

The methods of picking buds and leaves from the new shoots of the tea tree include hand picking and machine picking.

Hand-picked

Picking tea

Picking tea

Mining: Also known as folding mining, this method is applied to all standard tender picking tops and buns. Hand picking: This is a moderate standard picking method, which is used in most red and green tea areas. Two-hand picking: This is an advanced hand-picking method to improve the efficiency of tea picking. It is 50-100% more effective than single-hand picking. Generally, each person can pick 20-25kg less and most can reach 35-40kg. It has an ideal canopy, the picking surface is smooth, and the buds are neat.

2. Cutting and mining

The harvest of edge tea is thick because of the large raw materials. Multi-tools are used for cutting. The tools used in various places are small iron scrapers, sickles, or picking hoees. The tools require sharp blades. The cutting must be done quickly to avoid cutting the branches and affecting the next round Shoot germination. Machine picking: A few days before the machine is used to pick up a batch of fresh leaves that meet the standard, so that the quality of the machine-picked fresh leaves can basically meet the requirements of processing middle and low grade tea, and the work efficiency is more than 10 times higher than manual. After three to four years of continuous harvesting in the tea garden, the buds and leaves gradually became smaller, the density increased, and the leaves became thinner.

3.Mechanical mining

It is mainly a reciprocating cutting tea picker. Driven by a small gasoline engine of 0.6 to 14 watts or a micro-motor of about 40 watts, the power is transmitted from the flexible shaft to the hand-held picking device, which drives the cutter and leaf collecting device for reciprocating motion. The picked tea leaves are sent into a leaf collecting bag under the action of a fan or an impeller. The picking quality is good, and the bud and leaf integrity rate can reach about 80%, which is the main type of non-selective tea picking machine development. The tea picking machine produced by Tongan Technology [1] has good durability and can be used as a professional commercial tea picking machine. Compared with ordinary tea picking machines, it is very easy to start, simple and convenient to operate, and has a wide range of applications. It can be equipped with a variety of Cutter. The tea plucking machine is a good helper for cement garden finishing. With small size, light weight, strong and powerful, it is the first designated brand in professional love!

Tea picking

advantage

1. High work efficiency. According to a survey, a tea picker can collect more than 100 kilograms of fresh leaves a day in a high-yield tea plantation, and more than 50 kilograms of fresh leaves a day in a general tea plantation, which is 1 to 2 times more efficient than manual harvesting.

2. Good quality. As long as you master the technical essentials, you will be better than the current hand picking in terms of the integrity of the buds and leaves, as well as the maintenance of the tea tree, and because of the high work efficiency, it is easier to grasp the agricultural time than manual tea picking. It is beneficial to choose the best time to pick tea to ensure the quality of fresh leaves.

3. Low cost. Generally speaking, it is difficult for farmers to buy a tea picking machine for more than 5,000 yuan, while a tea picker only costs more than 10 yuan. Everyone can afford it.

4. Wide applicability. Picking tea tincture is easy to use and can be used by women and people with low education level. In addition, the use of tea picking tea requires less flatness of the tea tree picking surface than the tea picking machine. Therefore, picking tea tincture is particularly suitable for use in mountainous and family-run producers.

Precautions

1. Cut tea at the right time. Tea picking is best combined with picking tea. Early buds of spring tea germinated should be hand-picked first, and then in time, the tea picking should be used to cut and pick according to the standard of bulk tea. And batch cutting can be implemented.

2. Moderate cutting. Spring tea is cut at about 3 cm of the trimmed surface, that is, to save 1 leaf for cutting. Xia Qiu tea should be cut slightly higher on the last cutting surface. It must not be cut more than once, otherwise it will affect the quality of tea and the growth of tea trees.

3. Be sharp. The cutting must be successful with one knife, and two knifes must not be cut at the same place, otherwise the integrity of the buds and leaves will be affected, and the tea tree will be cut too much.

4. Add fertilizer. For tea gardens using tea picking shears, the amount of fertilizer should be more than that of hand-picked tea gardens. Generally, it can be calculated by adding 2-3 kg of pure nitrogen per 100 kg of dry tea. Increasing the application of fertilizer can not only improve the tenderness of buds and leaves, increase yield and quality, but also improve the cutting efficiency and the integrity of buds and leaves.

5. Normal pruning of tea trees should be implemented. Although the use of tea picking tea to pick tea is less demanding than the tea picking machine for the smoothness of the tea tree picking surface, it does not mean that there is no certain picking surface. Therefore, normal light trimming of the tea tree is required. For tea gardens with different heights of tea trees, it is still necessary to transform them into flat picking noodles through heavy pruning or deep pruning, in order to facilitate tea picking and tea picking. This will not only improve the tea picking efficiency, but also cut the buds and leaves intact Higher rates and fewer tea stalks are conducive to improving tea quality.

Small data

In the process of picking, in order to prevent the deterioration of fresh leaves, you should pay attention to: When picking, make the buds intact, do not pinch them in your hands, and do not squeeze them in the tea basket to prevent the buds from breaking and increasing the temperature of the leaves; The fresh leaves should be placed in a cool place and harvested in time. They should be delivered to the tea factory at least once a day at noon and evening each day. The containers for transporting greens should be clean, breathable and odorless. During the transportation of fresh leaves, when they are stacked Do not stress.