Fenghuang dancong, the single-bush oolong
The oolong of Fenghuang mountain, picked and made bush by bush, one bush one aroma; gongfu tea is mostly brewed from it.
Pronunciation fèng huáng dān cóng｜Food and tea｜One entry in the Chaoshan glossary
What it means
Fenghuang mountain is the core growing area. The dan in dancong means single bush: one tree gives one aroma, and each is picked and made on its own rather than blended, which is why there are so many names and such a scatter of aromas.
The common count gives ten aroma types, and ya shi xiang, duck-shit aroma, is the one whose name has travelled furthest — an unlovely name for good tea.
When you see it
Spring tea above all. The mountain only changes character above thirteen hundred metres: tea terraces, cloud, and a tarn on the summit. The leaf used for Chaozhou gongfu tea is expected to come from Fenghuang, which is where that expectation starts.
Words easily confused
Dancong is a kind of oolong, not a green tea. Fenghuang is the name of the mountain and part of the name of the tea, the same two characters in both.
Read next: Fenghuang mountain: where dancong comes from.
Same group: gongfu tea, the Chaoshan mooncake, the eight festivals.
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