The overall shape of tea leaves is flat, such as West Lake Longjing tea.

Curled shape

The appearance is tight and curly, and it is popular with camellia, Gao Qiao Yinfeng, Rizhao Qing Xue and other varieties.

Multi-star

The tea leaves are dried directly without twisting after fixation, which keeps the flower shape of tea leaves picked from tea trees.

Guapian shape

The leaf edge is slightly rolled to the back of the leaf, which looks like melon seeds, such as Luan melon slices in Anhui.

Bowl and mortar shape

After high-pressure sterilization, the refined tea leaves form a concave pit at the lower part, which looks like a compressed bird's nest, such as various Tuocha produced in Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces.

Pagoda-shaped

Pagoda-shaped tea is generally less, mostly hand-made, such as Dianhong Pagoda.

Qingtingtou

The top of the tea bar is twisted into a round block or bean sprout shape, which looks like a tadpole, such as Tieguanyin in southern Fujian oolong tea. If it is slightly twisted, it is screw-shaped.

Orchid shape

Bud leaves are connected together like flowers, with pedicels at the base, and the ends of bud leaves are slightly rolled up, slightly scattered and bent downward. Such as Rudong White Spring Bud, Ancient Bamboo Purple Bamboo Shoots, Lanxi Mao Feng and so on.

Pine needle shape

Picking tender leaves (mostly one bud and one leaf), tidying and rubbing. Such as Anhua pine needles, Enshi Yulu, Yongchuan beautiful and elegant, etc.

square

One is Yunnan Pu 'er square tea made of Yunnan green raw materials, and the other is Fujian Zhangping narcissus tea cake made of oolong tea.

Eyebrow shape

The appearance of dry tea is slightly curved like eyebrows, such as long fried green, baked green, sun-dried green, thin eyebrows in bulk green tea, kung fu black tea in black tea, small black tea, orange, yellow and white flowers in red broken tea and so on.

spirality

Of course, the most representative ones should be Biluochun in Jiangsu and Duyun Maojian in Guizhou.

Magnolia shape

The two leaves of tea are straight, without bending, warping and stretching, and the two ends are slightly pointed. You should have guessed this. Taiping Monkey Kui is the most typical representative.

Needle bud shape

Made of single bud, the bud shape is straight, and the shape in tea soup after brewing is like bamboo, elegant and moving. Such as Junshan Silver Needle in Hunan, Qiandao Silver Needle in Zhejiang and Bai Hao Silver Needle in Fujian.

pillar; mainstay

Put the steamed tea leaves into a bamboo-lined mold and compact them into columns, such as Hunan Anhua Liangqian Tea.

Que-tongue shape

Such as crested finch tongue, Jintan finch tongue, Meitan finch tongue and so on.

Bead shape

Used to describe the round knot of tea, which looks like pearls. More common in green tea, Zhejiang pearl tea.

Peony shape

2~3 grams of tea leaves are concentrated in bundles, tied tightly at the base and made into peony shapes, such as green peony in Huangshan, Anhui.

Cake shape

Tea leaves are refined and autoclaved. Due to different sizes, it can be divided into big cake tea and small cake tea. Needless to say, the well-known Pu 'er tea cake and white tea cake belong to the shape of cakes.

sphericity

Such as Iceland Dragon Ball, Jinguagong Tea, Xiaoqing Citrus and so on.

Hook shape

For example, Jiuqu Hongmei in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province has always been said to be thin and tight as a fishhook, and Yang Yan Gouqing in Linhai, Zhejiang Province is also a typical hook shape.

Granular shape

Tea leaves that are tightly rolled into particles and slightly angular belong to this type. Such as Pan Hao in Linhai, Zhejiang, and Huo Qing in Yongqing, Anhui.

Phoenix tail shape

The shape of a straight tea bar resembling a phoenix tail is called a phoenix tail shape, and this kind of tea is mostly shaped on a carding machine. The most representative is Anji white tea.

Brick shape

After refining, black hair tea is autoclaved to form brick teas of different sizes, such as Fuzhuan brick tea, Laoqing brick tea and Kangzhuan tea.

fusiform

Dry tea is straight and slightly pointed at both ends. It is mostly made of fat buds and leaves, and it is slightly trimmed when processing. Such as Taibai Terminal Bud in Zhejiang, Yin Hao in Wang Fu and Xiandu Bamboo Peak.