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Yongchun

A Fujian county producing Fo Shou oolong from an unusually large-leaf cultivar. It sits outside the better-known Anxi and Wuyi areas and its tea is correspondingly under-recognised — and, because Fo Shou is charcoal-roasted as a strip oolong the way Wuyi teas are, is sometimes sold as though it came from there.

永春China300–900 metres

Elevation

Recorded at 300–900 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

The Fujian oolong spring-and-autumn pattern, worked in a district whose reputation rests on a heavily roasted and long-kept style rather than on a fresh one.

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

How the name is written

Also transliterated as yong chun. 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

  • Yongchun Fo Shou — Thick and faintly citrus, with a leaf so large that a gaiwan fills far faster than the weight suggests.

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.

  • Yongchun vs Anxi — Two Fujian oolong counties, one famous and one not, growing cultivars with completely different leaf sizes. Yongchun’s Fo Shou has leaves large enough to change how the tea is measured; Anxi’s Tie Guan Yin is the commercial reference for the whole rolled-oolong style.