White tea, belonging to the slightly fermented tea, is a special treasure in Chinese tea. Because the finished tea is mostly buds, full of white hair, such as silver like snow and named. It is one of the six major types of tea in China.

White tea is not killed or twisted, only after the sun or fire drying processed tea, with the appearance of buds and hair intact, full of Phi Hao, hair aroma fresh, soup color yellow-green and clear, taste light and sweet quality characteristics.

The main production areas of white tea are Fuding, Zhenghe, Zherong in Fujian Province, Old Street in Xinzhou, Wuhan, Tianshan in Jiaocheng, Songxi, Jianyang, Jinggu in Yunnan Province and other places. The basic process includes withering, baking (or drying), picking, re-fire and other processes. Yunnan white tea process is mainly sunshine green, sunshine green tea advantage is the taste to maintain the original flavor of tea, withering is the formation of white tea quality of the key processes.

Expanded Information:

White Tea is a tea that is full of flavor and aroma. p>White tea adult tea is full of white hair, light soup color, taste fresh and mellow, with milli-fragrance. The most important feature is the white silver hair, known as "green makeup" of the beauty, buds fat, yellow soup color, taste fresh mellow, leaf bottom tender uniform. After brewing and tasting, the flavor is fresh and mellow, and it can also play a pharmacological role. White tea is cool and has the effect of reducing heat and fire.

Drinking white tea, should not be too thick, generally 150 ml of water with 5 grams of tea leaves is enough. The temperature of the water should be above 95 degrees Celsius, and the first infusion should take about 5 minutes, and the tea should be filtered and poured into a tea cup for drinking. The second brew takes only 3 minutes, which means that it should be brewed as you drink it. In general a cup of white tea can be brewed four or five times.

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