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Jingyang

A Shaanxi county far outside the tea-growing belt that nonetheless became the traditional pressing centre for Fu Zhuan brick tea, on the theory that local conditions favoured the fungal bloom. Production later moved to Anhua.

涇陽China400–900 metres

Elevation

Recorded at 400–900 metres.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.

When it is picked

No harvest at all — and the record is here to say so. Jingyang presses and ferments leaf grown elsewhere, principally in southern Shaanxi and beyond, and its significance is a microbial process carried out in a particular place rather than a crop grown there. A growing-region register that let that pass unremarked would imply a field that does not exist.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it. Recorded as a processing centre rather than a growing district. TeaHQ keeps it in this register because the trade names it as an origin, and flags the distinction rather than removing the record.

How the name is written

Also transliterated as jing yang. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.

Teas this region is known for

  • Fu Zhuan — Mellow, grainy and faintly mushroomy, without the strong earthiness of shou pu-erh. The mature leaf and the fungal step together make it exceptionally smooth, and it stands up to milk in a way almost no other Chinese tea does.

Other teas recorded from here

Other growing regions in China

The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.

Sources

  • TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ

This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.

How TeaHQ handles sources

Written comparisons

Where TeaHQ has set this region against something it is routinely confused with, and argued the differences out in full.

  • Jingyang vs Anhua — Fu Zhuan brick tea was traditionally pressed in a Shaanxi county hundreds of kilometres outside the tea-growing belt, on the belief that only local conditions would produce the golden flower. Production has since moved to where the leaf is grown, which tested that belief directly.