Huangjingui is the product name; Huangdan is the cultivar it's made from — the national standard is explicit that these are two different names, not two words for the same thing.
Huangjingui (黄金桂) is a Southern Fujian oolong from Anxi County and one of the four teas Anxi producers call the “Four House Varieties” (四大当家品种), alongside Tieguanyin, Benshan and Maoxie. It’s the fragrance-driven one of the group.
The detail worth getting right before anything else: Huangjingui is the product name, and Huangdan (黄旦) is the name of the cultivar it’s made from. China’s national standard for this tea, GB/T 30357.3-2015, states this directly — the cultivar name and the product name are not interchangeable, even though some listings blur the two.
The standard’s own sensory language, echoed in supporting source material, describes Huangjingui’s aroma as striking and penetrating — a phrase translating roughly as “penetrates the sky” (透天香). That’s not marketing flourish; it’s the documented descriptor, and it tells you what to expect: fragrance that arrives fast and sharp, rather than softly. Taste is described as light, fresh and crisp, with a bright golden liquor.
One honest gap worth flagging: source material disagrees on the dry leaf’s shape. An older editorial content pack describes it as tight and granular; the standards research compilation instead records the typical form as tight, twisted strips. This page doesn’t pick a side — both are reported, and the mismatch is a reminder that even “documented” descriptions can conflict between sources.
All four Anxi House Varieties go through the same general oolong process — withering, bruising-and-resting, kill-green, wrap-rolling and drying. What separates them is cultivar and finished character, not a different method. Tasted next to Tieguanyin, Huangjingui reads noticeably lighter and more fragrance-forward — a useful side-by-side for understanding what “cultivar” actually changes in an Anxi oolong.
See the Oolong Tea guide for where Huangjingui sits among the Anxi oolongs, and Benshan and Maoxie for the other two House Varieties.
Look · Dry leaf
Source material genuinely disagrees on shape: an older content pack describes the dry leaf as tight and granular, while the standards research compilation records Huangjingui's typical form as tight, twisted strips (条索紧结). Both are reported here rather than merged into one claim.
Smell & taste
Typical aroma: penetrating floral. Flavor tendencies: light, fresh, crisp. Body: light-medium. These vary by batch, storage and brewing.
Brew · A starting point
Try 5 g in 150 ml water at 90–100°C for 15–30 seconds. Fully decant before tasting.
Read the wet leaves
Not documented specifically for Huangjingui in the source material reviewed.
Sources & review status
- ChinaTea101_Content_Library_Part_A.md — Huangjingui profile (p.58); 《中国乌龙茶标准研究资料库》.md — GB/T 30357.3-2015 entry, Southern Fujian oolong table, cultivar-vs-product tables — ChinaTea101 owner-supplied Source Library. Research and structured extraction performed by SCNet DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Event, reviewed and fact-checked by Claude before publishing. Used for the Four House Varieties grouping, the cultivar-vs-product-name distinction (explicitly stated in the standard), the "penetrates the sky" (透天香) aroma descriptor, and confirmation of GB/T 30357.3-2015 as the dedicated national standard. A genuine SOURCE_CONFLICT on dry-leaf shape (granular per the older content pack vs. tight twisted strips per the standards research compilation) is reported, not resolved. A minor cultivar-name transcription discrepancy (黄棪 vs. 黄旦) between the two source files is also noted but not resolved. No brewing parameters specific to this tea were found in the material reviewed.
Imported from 《中国乌龙茶标准研究资料库》.md. Updated 2026-09-25. Last reviewed 2026-09-25
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