Puerh ripened tea is similar to black tea in its later stages, and can barely be considered black tea. But because the ripe tea used is Puerh raw tea fermentation, and black tea is different. The degree of fermentation of Pu-erh tea, Pu-erh tea is divided into raw Pu-erh and ripe Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh is fully fermented, we can put it into the black tea category.

But the raw Puerh is very special, raw Puerh new tea fermentation degree is very low, similar to yellow tea white tea, but with the storage of Puerh transformation, the degree of fermentation will gradually deepen, the color of the tea broth is also gradually become darker, until it reaches full fermentation.

So that shengpu in each period, its degree of fermentation is different, we are difficult to give it a characterization, it is a special kind of tea.

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One, the definition of black tea, black tea

According to the traditional categorization, the Chinese tea **** divided into black tea , green tea, green tea, yellow tea, white tea, black tea six tea categories.

Black tea belongs to fully fermented tea, which is a type of tea refined from fresh leaves through typical processes such as withering, kneading, fermentation and drying. It has the characteristics of black tea, red soup, red leaves and sweet flavor and alcohol. There are more types of black tea, with a wide range of origins, mainly Keemun black tea, Zhengshan Xiaojiao, Dian Hong and so on. In addition, India, Sri Lanka's black tea is also very famous.

Black tea belongs to the post-fermentation tea, tea production process generally includes killing, kneading, stacking and drying four processes. Because the appearance of the finished tea is black, it is called "black tea". Traditional black tea is made from black hair tea with high maturity, which is the main raw material for pressing tea. According to the geographical distribution of black tea, mainly categorized as Hunan black tea, Sichuan Tibetan tea, Guangxi six fort tea.

Two, Pu'er tea is a new tea category

Pu'er tea is neither black tea nor black tea, in recent years, the academic community gradually reached a **** knowledge of the Pu'er tea from the six tea categories independently, since a tea category. Pu-erh tea is the Yunnan large-leafed sun green tea as raw materials, after fermentation processing into loose tea and tightly pressed tea.

Because of the history of south Yunnan, southwestern Yunnan produced tea are scattered in Pu'er County, so it is called "Pu'er Tea". Pu'er tea production and marketing since the Tang Dynasty has begun, so far there has been a thousand years of history. Ming Dynasty Pu'er tea production, consumption has been very common. The middle of the Qing Dynasty reached its heyday. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Pu'er tea production and gradual decline. Until after the founding of New China, only to restore the development of Yunnan Province is now one of the main types of tea.

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Three, Puerh Tea's 5 Necessary Conditions

Puerh Tea must have the following 5 conditions:

1. Origin: can only be a certain area within Yunnan;

2. Species: can only be Yunnan large-leafed species;

3. Raw material: can only be sun-dried green tea;

4. Process: must be a certain degree of fermentation;

5. Water leachate: the tea broth of the water leachate content must be at or above 38%.

Four, the classification and shape of Pu-erh tea

Pu-erh tea can be divided into two categories: traditional Pu-erh tea and modern Pu-erh tea. Traditional Pu-erh tea is the Yunnan large-leafed sun-green tea after slow natural post-fermentation of a variety of products; modern Pu-erh tea is in Yunnan large-leafed sun-green tea on the basis of artificial fermentation, and then processed into a variety of loose tea and tightly pressed tea.

Pu'er tea form more, there are loose tea, tuo tea, cake tea, brick tea. A good Pu'er tea has fat cords, bright soup color, mellow and sweet taste, and rapid tianjin production. Pu-erh tea also has the quality of "the older the more fragrant", in the selection of materials, technology, warehousing conditions are relatively good, the older the Pu-erh tea, drinking more flavor.

In summary, Pu'er tea is not black tea, nor black tea, but the Yunnan large-leafed sun green gross tea processed from the post-fermentation tea.