Puerh tea belongs to the black tea.
Puerh tea is a post-fermented tea, Puerh ripe tea has more fermentation process than raw tea. New raw tea is cold in nature and becomes mild after aging, while ripe tea is mild and mellow. The color of Puerh raw tea is mainly green and dark green, and after aging, some of it turns into yellow-green and yellow-red.
The soup color is mainly yellow-green, yellow-red and golden yellow. New tea leaf bottom is mainly green, yellow-green, aged tea is red-yellow or date red. Raw tea is bitter and astringent, the aroma is more obvious, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, but after natural aging tea will slowly become mild, brown chestnut-colored tea.
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1, China's six tea refers to China's tea is divided into black tea, green tea, oolong tea (green tea), yellow tea, black tea, white tea six categories.
2, black tea in the processing process occurred in the enzymatic oxidation of tea polyphenols as the center of the chemical reaction, the chemical composition of the fresh leaves in the larger changes in the tea polyphenols to reduce more than 90%, resulting in theaflavin, theaflavin and other new ingredients. Aroma substances than fresh leaves increased significantly. So black tea has red tea, red soup, red leaves and sweet flavor alcohol characteristics. China's black tea varieties to Keemun black tea is the most famous, for China's second largest tea.
3, oolong tea, also known as green tea, more varieties, is China's major tea categories, unique and distinctive Chinese characteristics of the tea category. Oolong tea is after picking, withering, shaking, frying, kneading, baking and other processes to produce excellent quality tea. Oolong tea evolved from the Song Dynasty's tribute teas, Dragon Ball and Phoenix Cake, and was created around 1725 (during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty). It has a sweet aftertaste with a lingering flavor in the teeth and cheeks.
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