Yes! But this is not exclusive to dong ding Oolong tea.
Luggu Township in Nantou County, Taiwan, China is located in the middle of Taiwan’s main island and is surrounded by the Central Mountain Range. It is a habitat for a variety of flora and fauna and boasts magnificent scenery.
The story goes that a long time ago, someone brought tea trees from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian to Taiwan. The same batch of trees were planted in different places, but the natural conditions of Jieding Mountain in Luggu Township were the most superior and produced the best quality tea. More than one hundred and fifty years have passed, and ‘Dongding’ has become the most famous brand of oolong tea in Taiwan and is known worldwide. At first, people only called the tea produced in Jyunding Mountain ‘Jyunding Oolong Tea’, but as the brand appeal of the word ‘Dongding’ continued to grow, the coverage of the name gradually expanded from Jyunding Mountain to the vicinity of Jyunding Mountain, and from the vicinity to the Surrounding ….. Nowadays, in the tea market, there is no need to mention the tea produced in Taiwan, and there are even cheap teas that call themselves ‘Dongding’. Thus, the dong ding oolong tea has become the most famous and the most uneven quality tea in Taiwan.
At some point, the claim that ‘Dongding oolong tea can cure hay fever’ spread in Japan and caused a huge reaction. Where did this claim come from? It is said that the catechins rich in the tea have the effect of inhibiting allergic reactions. The problem is that frozen top oolong tea is not the only tea that contains this ingredient, all oolong teas have it. The popularity of the dong ding oolong tea is too high, it was hyped as the ‘savior of hay fever’. So a hype, the market appeared a large number of counterfeit dong ding oolong tea .
Post time: May-26-2023