Lu'an Guapian

A flat, melon-seed-shaped tea leaf without bud or stalk, finished through repeated charcoal baking.

Lu'an Guapian's identity is unusually visible in the leaf itself. CNIPA documents the leaf shape, its source varieties and the repeated high-heat charcoal firing that forms the finished tea. The craft combines botanical selection with a precise rhythm of turning and heat.

Loose, twisted Lu’an melon-seed tea leaves arranged on a white surface. — Lu’an melon-seed tea photographed by PanShiBo in 2011 and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2012. This is a standard 500-pixel Commons thumbnail of the 600 × 399 source image; it shows the dry leaves, not a tea field or a processing scene.

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Lu'an Guapian: the leaf without bud or stalk

The tea's recognizable leaf shape leads into a precise finishing process over charcoal, turning repeated hand motions into flavor and form.

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Lu’an melon-seed tea photographed by PanShiBo in 2011 and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2012. This is a standard 500-pixel Commons thumbnail of the 600 × 399 source image; it shows the dry leaves, not a tea field or a processing scene.PanShiBo · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Commons file page identifies PanShiBo as the photographer, dates the photograph to 30 August 2012 (description: “Lu’an Melon Seed tea, 2011”), and grants CC BY-SA 3.0. The saved file is the 500px standard thumbnail returned by Commons imageinfo, not the 600 × 399 upstream file. Attribution and licence link retained; no edits to the thumbnail other than a proportional WebP display rendition.