The tea is made from the young buds or leaves at the top of the tea branches, and the old leaves at the bottom cannot be made into drinking tea. At the same time, tea growers will be the top of the tea shoots or young leaves into the "growth period" and "maturity", that is, according to the different tea green, tea can be divided into two categories of tea buds and leaf tea.

There is another way to say it: due to the different standards of tea tree varieties and raw materials (fresh leaves) picking, it is divided into bud tea and leaf tea. However, when both buds and leaves are made into tea, it is difficult for the average tea drinker to distinguish between them.

Let's count the difference between bud tea and leaf tea:

1, bud tea is characterized by more white hair, but leaf tea is more open to the mouth of the leaf. If the appearance of the leaf edge serrated obvious, it may be a poorer quality of summer tea.

2. Picking Standards:

Bud Tea: The growing period is the period when the tea branches continue to grow. During the growth period, the top buds and leaves are picked as raw materials (only the heart buds can be plucked or plucked at the time of "one heart with two unspreading leaves") to make the tea.

Leaf Tea: Tea made from the top buds and young leaves that are picked right after the tea branches ripen during the ripening period.

3, the important factors affecting the price:

For high-quality bud tea, if all of them are refined from the young buds, it is a luxury, naturally, the price is higher. However, if the collection of young buds, with one or two new leaves just unfolded, to be cheaper. For one bud and two leaves, one bud and three leaves, or even one bud and four leaves, the price decreases in that order.

For high-quality leaf tea, if the latest open bud heart and the front of a new leaf to form a "counterpart two leaves", the price will be higher. If the third leaf is not yet old, can also be picked, become "counterpart three leaves", the price will be lower.

4, Xiao's tea, this spring, the new listing of Xiao's spring buds, Xiao net tip, Jinxiang Pinxue, etc. belong to the buds of the tea category, taken in early spring at the top of the tea branch has just grown out of the bracts, and some with the buds of the heart of the child, the tea can be seen on the white hairs of the obvious. The best time to pick bud tea is early spring, if the tea buds used in the production of the more tender, the more the finished product will be the upper level.

Are you still confused about bud tea leaf tea? Do not panic, small tea for you to cite:

Bud tea, that is, the most tender tea.

(Song) Xiong Fan "Xuanhe Beiyuan Tribute Tea Record": "Where the tea buds of several products, the most said small buds, such as the bird's tongue, eagle's claw, in order to its straight and slender, so the number of buds tea."

(Qing) Shenchu "Western Qing notes - Ji Tingfu": "the inner court every year routine reward, March bud tea, April cap latitude."