Year: Republic Period
Category: Dark Tea
Region: Anhui Qimen
Storage: Mild Dry Storage/ Natural Storage
Quantity: 6 Pieces
Size: Approx. 40cm
Total Weight: Approx. 2935g
This lot with three inner tickets is well-preserved under a mildly dry to natural warehouse. The bamboo basket is a typical handwoven design from the early Republic period - wide and flat, with intact bamboo slats. The bamboo basket is inscribed with the name "Sun Yishun, selected pre-rain top-grade silver needle leaves", indicating the high quality of the tea. Liu An tea production is complex, requiring at least three years of storage for the aroma to fully develop. During the Republic era, major tea companies could not afford the lengthy processing and storage, so they shifted to producing Qimen black tea instead. Liu An tea production nearly disappeared until it was revived in 1984 due to requests from overseas Chinese and the traditional Chinese medicine community.