Dingjun Mingmei tea is picked from organic tea gardens at an altitude of 1000±200 meters around the Qingming Festival, selecting the first tender buds, single buds, or one bud with one leaf. It is meticulously refined using advanced technology combined with traditional techniques. The tea leaves have a uniform appearance, with fine, delicate pekoe resembling eyebrows, a tender green color, intact brewed leaves, a lasting delicate fragrance, a fresh and brisk taste, and a bright yellow-green liquor. Physical and chemical analysis shows it contains amino acids (3.56%), caffeine (3.40%), tea polyphenols (30.5%), water extract (44.35%), and various trace elements, making it a superior product for drinking and health preservation. Named for its resemblance to a young maiden's delicate eyebrows, Dingjun Mingmei excels in color, aroma, taste, and shape, truly a rare "treasure" among teas.

Dingjun Mingmei is a strip-shaped baked and pan-fired green tea. It is named for its production area around the famous Three Kingdoms ancient battlefield of Dingjun Mountain and its shape, which resembles the slender eyebrows of a young woman.

Mian County is renowned both as an ancient battlefield and a famous tea-growing region. The southern Shaanxi tea area, located on the northern side of the Qinling Mountains, is China's northernmost tea-producing region with a long history of tea cultivation; historical records indicate tea was offered as tribute during the Tang Dynasty. The Han River basin features fertile soil, abundant rainfall, and soil rich in selenium and zinc, making it a famous selenium-rich zone. Tea gardens are mostly situated on high-altitude mountains, perpetually shrouded in clouds and mist, aligning with the saying "high mountains and clouds produce good tea." Coupled with the slow pace of local industrial development, the tea gardens are virtually pollution-free, resulting in exceptionally high-quality tea. The pollution-free, improved-variety ecological tea gardens in the ancient battlefield area of Dingjun Mountain, at the source of the Han River at altitudes of 800-1380 meters, experience year-round mist, humid climate, diffused light, short sunlight hours, fertile, slightly acidic soil. These unique climatic and soil conditions contribute to the tea's distinctive quality.

Dingjun Mingmei is refined from tender buds and leaves of tea plant varieties such as Fuding Da Bai and Longjing Changye. As a high-mountain green tea, it is best brewed using the 'top-drop' method. Its buds and leaves are plump, with a slender, eyebrow-like appearance, tender green color with visible pekoe, a lasting delicate aroma, a mellow and refreshing taste, a bright tender green liquor, and evenly tender green brewed leaves. Fresh leaf picking for Dingjun Mingmei begins in late March. The fresh leaves undergo selection, fixation, cooling, light rolling, second drying, shaping, baking, and final sorting. It is graded into Special, First, and Second grades. Dedicated personnel are required for acceptance, grading, and spreading. Through manual selection, non-conforming leaves are removed to ensure uniformity in size, length, and color of the dry tea. The Special grade consists mainly of one bud with one leaf just unfurled (over 95%), with bud length not exceeding 2.5cm; the First grade consists mainly of one bud with one leaf (about 80%), with bud length not exceeding 3cm; the Second grade also consists mainly of one bud with one leaf (over 60%), with bud length not exceeding 3cm.

With its intoxicating fragrance, Dingjun Mingmei has ventured beyond the Qinling Mountains and gained fame nationwide. In early August 1990, it passed a ministerial-level appraisal by the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hangzhou. Praised for its "uniform appearance with visible pekoe, slender as eyebrows, tender green color, lasting delicate aroma, fresh and mellow taste, bright yellow-green liquor, tender green and intact brewed leaves," it has won numerous awards. These include first place in China's Western Famous Tea Competition, the "Luyu Cup" award, a silver medal at the First China Agricultural Expo, the Shaanxi Famous Tea Gold Award, and the Hanzhong City High-Quality Product Award. In 1996, it was selected by the General Office of the Central Committee for use in state banquets. Dingjun Mingmei has topped the list of Hanzhong famous teas for eight consecutive years.

Dingjun Mingmei is produced in the Dingjun Mountain area of Mian County, Hanzhong Prefecture, southern Shaanxi. The tea has a flat, eyebrow-like shape, made from single buds to one bud with one leaf. It features an emerald green color, a fresh and mellow taste, a high and lasting fragrance, a bright green liquor, and bright green, whole brewed leaves that bloom. Developed and produced in Mian County, Shaanxi Province, it is refined from tender buds and leaves of tea plant varieties including Fuding Da Bai, Longjing Changye, and Ziyang population species. It is named for its production area around the famous Three Kingdoms ancient battlefield of Dingjun Mountain and its shape resembling a young woman's slender eyebrows. The production area altitude is 800-1380 meters, with a clearly vertical climate distribution, perennial cloud and mist cover, an average annual temperature of 14°C, an annual effective accumulated temperature ≥10°C of 4400°C, an average annual rainfall of 1200mm, and a forest coverage rate of 80%. The soil is primarily yellow-brown earth and sandy loam, rich in humus, with organic matter content of 1.5%-2.5% and a pH of 4.5-6.0. The tea area is far from towns and major transportation routes, with fresh, pollution-free air. Certified by the China Green Food Development Center's Organic Food Certification Center, it has obtained Green AA-grade organic tea production base certification. Mian County currently has 71,000 mu of tea gardens, with 35,000 mu in production, yielding over 400 tons of dry tea annually, of which Dingjun Mingmei accounts for 70 tons. It is one of six key tea base counties designated by Shaanxi Province, and the tea industry has become a pillar agricultural industry for the county.