![Lapsang Souchong Chinese tea: known for its signiture smoky flavor]() Lapsang Souchong Chinese tea: known for its signiture smoky flavor |
Try to inquire from any Chinese tea experts which black tea is the most distinctive and one name always comes out: Lapsang Souchong.
Famous for its signiture smoky flavor, this tea is hailed worldwide as one of the top-grade black teas.
However, as Lapsang Souchong graces millions tea tables, few of us ever wonder how this quaint flavored tea was ever discovered.
The discovery of Lapsang Souchong, as a popular Chinese story goes, is nothing but an accident.
A long time ago, there was a small village in the heart of Wuyi Mountain, home of the famous Chinese rock tea. It was time of the annual drying of tea leaves when a band of army passed by the community and disturbed the work of the local tea farmers.
![Lapsang Souchong Chinese tea: an accidental discovery]() Lapsang Souchong Chinese tea: an accidental discovery |
To save the tea leaves and income of a year, tea farmers had to find quick options to dry their tea leaves. In desperate, they baked the tea leaves on top of fires made from local pines.
The method left a smoky aroma on the tea, and no one was expecting their products to fetch good prices in the market.
However, to everyone's surprise, the tea won the hearts of tea drinkers as soon as they hit the market.
Hence, a new type of special Chinese tea was created and became popular up until today.
