Some divide tea into six categories: green tea, black tea, oolong tea (i.e., green tea)

, white tea, yellow tea, and black tea, based on different manufacturing methods and differences in quality.

Some tea is divided into several categories according to the type of tea exported from China, such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, flower tea, pressed tea and instant tea.

According to China's tea processing is divided into the initial, refined two stages of the actual situation, the tea is divided into two major parts of the gross tea and finished tea, of which the gross tea green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea and black tea five categories, yellow tea into a class of green tea; finished tea, including the refined processing of green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea and then processed into the flower of the tea, tea, pressed tea, and instant tea and other categories.

Some also divided from the origin of tea called Sichuan tea, Zhejiang tea, Fujian tea, etc., this classification is generally only commonly known. Can also be divided into its growing environment: flat tea, high mountain tea, hilly tea. In addition, there are some "tea" is not really the meaning of tea, but the general drinking method with the same general tea, so people often named tea, such as worm tea, fish tea. Some of this kind of tea has not many people know it is not tea, such as gynostemma tea. The above several common classification methods combined, Chinese tea can be divided into basic tea and reprocessed tea two major categories.

Categorized by tea color

Categorized by fermentation

Categorized by season

Categorized by degree of withering

Categorized by manufacturing process

Categorized by tea plant species

Categorized by type of flower

Categorized by degree of roasting

Categorized by place of origin

Categorized by new tea

Categorized by the degree of roasting

Categorized by the place of origin

Categorized by new tea, aged tea