Suolong Brand Insect Tea comes from the world famous mysterious Chishui River area, in a typical Danxia landform in China. The tea grows in the Scenic Spot Area of Sidong Creek and the Shizhang Cave, Chishui City, Guizhou. The Channel enjoys the titles such as “Nationally Designated Eco-Demonstration Region”, “Jurassic Natural Park in Guizhou, China” and “Alsophila spinulose Kingdom”. On the pure land of this virgin forest, there grows a kind of ancient and mysterious tree with white leaves. The local people call them “white tea”. In summer and autumn, when the white tea grows out new leaves, people take the newly picked leaves to ventilative places. The faint scent emitted by the leaves attracts moths to oviposit. Several days later, the sorrel larva will break the cocoons and eat the white tea leave. Then the tea is made: natural insect type products from forest resources- insect tea.

The insect tea has a long history and a profound folk tradition. The tea was once exported to countries and regions such as Southeast China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan etc. It enjoys the fame of “A rare Chinese Tea” abroad.

It is examined that the insect tea contains a great deal of wholesome amino acid and dozens of microelements, especially as calcium, magnesium, phosphonium, kalium, zinc, selenium, sugar and abundant tea polyphenols which is incomparable by other like products. Integrating nutrition and health care together, the tea is a kind of ecological drink that is good for old and young alike.

The water of the insect tea is sorrel and tastes sweet, cool, pure and rich. The “old man of insect tea” says that drinking the tea can penetrate to the heart, enhance the lung, regulate qi and relieve the exterior syndrome, cool the blood, decrease the blood pressure, distinguish the greasiness, stimulate one’s appetite and promote digestion. The functions of the tea were confirmed in the records of the Compendium of Materia Medica.


The drinking method of the insect tea is simple but mysterious: put proper amount of the tea in the prepared glass with boiling water and cover the lid. Then there presents a beautiful and fancy picture: along with the sinking of the insect tea, strips of sanguine threads release, as if red dragons rove over the sea. However, when the sorrel tea mixes with water, there are milky flocs appearing in the glass, like white lotus flowers blossoming in the water. And now the tea is ready to drink.