苦丁茶又名皋卢茶,日本、新加坡、台湾等东南亚地区又习惯称之为“茶王”或“一叶甘”。苫丁茶在我国已有两千年的饮用历史,元、明、清三朝曾将其列为稀世珍品进贡皇帝,至清朝初叶因王室要求进贡数量过大,采伐过度而失传。至本世纪80年代,经我国著名茶学家,湖南农学院陈兴琰教授等多年潜心研 Kuding tea is also known as Lulu tea. Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and other Southeast Asian regions are also used to call it “tea king” or “leaf.” Kending tea has been used for drinking for 2,000 years in China. The Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties used it as a rare treasure to pay tribute to the emperor. At the beginning of the Qing dynasty, the number of tributaries required by the royal family was too large and was lost due to excessive logging. In the 80s of this century, after many years of painstaking research by renowned tea academe in China, Prof. Chen Xingyi from Hunan Agricultural University.