The ancestors sang and praised Fuzhuan Tea with the words of "Cooked a pot of tea ,Invited some good friends, Praised the nature, Sent the eternal love" and "In the vast of Gobi, The camels' bells ringing, On the ancient tea-horse road, Fuzhuan tea's fragrance is everywhere."

In 1988, the association of Feng Ming in Japan and the famous tea ceremony expert, Mr. Song Xiazhi, investigated the Hexi Corridor in China and found Fuzhuan Tea to have the magic efficacy and praised Fuzhuan Tea as "The mystery tea of ancient Chinese Silk Road, tea of life in Northwest national minorities."

Yiyang Tea Factory Co, Ltd., is the original Hunan Yiyang Tea Factory, located in the south region of the Zishui River and near by the Dongting River and Tao Huayuan, known to have a mild climate and abundant rainfall. Yiyang Tea Factory Co, Ltd is the largest Fuzhuan Tea manufacturer and the largest facility to store the raw material of Fuzhuan Tea. It also is the leading enterprise of the provincial agricultural industrialization and the provincial high-tech enterprise.

For more than half a century, Yiyang has continued the nearly 500-year-old tradition of Fuzhuan Tea's production process, honoring the long history of Fuzhuan Tea, promoting its tea culture and developing the old Fuzhuan Tea brand "Xiang Yi". Xiang Yi Fuzhuan Tea starts by using only tea of the highest quality and pollution-free as the raw material and using many processes like pile-fermentation, fermentation, FaHua (microbe growing) to produce fully fermented tea products. Fuzhuan Tea's are made into brick-like forms which are smooth, clean-cut and the same thickness and firmness.

Fuzhuan Tea Brick has a complicated production process and a long processing cycle, from the primary tea leaf to the finished product, it goes through more than 30 procedures. Fahua is the most wonderful and special process for which is unique only to Fuzhuan Tea. By stacking the brick tea on shelves orderly and neatly in a room with an appropriate space overhead, Xiang Yi is able to control the temperature and humidity of the tea through the fermentation phase effectively without using any additives.

Through the natural fermentation and the effects of the activities of the microbes, many golden yellow granules called the 'Golden Flower' are generated in Fuzhuan Tea, known to be very beneficial to the human body. The Golden Flower is not only the symbol different from other kind of tea, but also is the main factor of evaluating the quality of Fuzhuan Tea. The Golden Flower of Xiang Yin Fuzhuan Tea is generally denser and has larger granules with the bright golden color. The color of the tea soup is bright orange, the fragrance is pure, and the taste is mellow with rich Golden Flower's aroma.

The Golden Flower is Eurotium Cristatum, one of the primary and dominant microbe species found during the processing of Fuzhuan Tea and also is the major factor of the unique quality of Fuzhuan Tea. Observed under the microscope, the Golden Flower is in groups, with each Golden Flower granule in the appearance of an umbrella and its color golden. Microbiologist found the Golden Flower as a newly discovered microbial species on earth less than 30 years ago. The only other similar microbe, found over a thousand years ago, is lucid qanoderma.

It is rare and amazing to found the large number of Eurotium Cristatum on Fuzhuan Tea. Many microbiologist and experts from all over the world have been conducting research on the Golden Flower, in hopes to win the Novel Prize through these studies. Recently the PhD supervisor, Professor Liu Zhonghua from Hunan Agricultural University, by using the High Throughout Screening, separated a variety of active compounds from Fuzhuan Tea and found that there are two new active substances - A and B. These substances have proved to have the remarkable effects of lipid-lowering and glucose-lowering/anti-diabetic properties, at the molecular level. In May of 2007, Professor Liu Zhonghua revealed an academic report about "Fuzhuan Tea and the Golden Flower" at Harvard University in the United States and shocked many international experts of food engineering, agriculture, medicine and microbiology.

Many leading tea experts have performed animal experiments, human clinical trials, toxicology studies, safety assessment and epidemiological investigations with the results showing that the many compounds of the Golden Flower have the ability to activate the PPAR? and PPAR? models.

The two new active substances of Golden Flower, A and B, have been shown to reduce body fat or adipose and lower lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar, significantly. Drinking Fuzhuan Tea for an extended period of time can promote a healthier metabolism, enhance the human body, delay the senescence and plays an effective role in preventive health care and preventing pathology in the human body. The widespread attention on Fuzhuan Tea by the tea industry and the medical industry has inspired many to pursue a healthy life by drinking Fuzhuan Tea.

As a new type of healthy, natural drink, Fuzhuan Tea has shown positive effects on hypertension, hyperlipidemia, high blood sugar and other pathological symptoms which come from consuming a diet high in fat, protein, and cholesterol foods typical for the modern urban citizen. Fuzhuan Tea's processing is a second-class national secret, and is important to the historical and cultural heritage of China, is has been included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection list.

500 years of heritage, 500 years of accumulation, 500 years history, 500 years of culture, 500 year footprint and 500 years of a legend!

Today's Xiang Yi Fuzhuan Tea is favored by domestic and foreign people because it's long history, rich cultural connotation and its unique pharmacological health benefits. It has faded its veil of mystery and come into the homes of ordinary people with its long history, culture, and effects. This kind of dark tea with its cultural value, artistic value, collection value and usefulness, will be the wonderful flower of tea culture in China and the world.

To drink tea is a mood.

To drink tea is a state of mind.

Inviting some good friends, make a pot of Fuzhuan Tea, talk about the tea and of life, and enjoy the peacefulness of nature.

What a wonderful thing in your life!

Hoping everyone in the world can feel the wonderful life and enjoy the peaceful feelings from a pot of tea.

P.S: about the brand Xiang Yi, "Xiang" means Hunan, and "Yi" means Yi yang.