The grades of Fuding white tea: Gongmei, Shoumei, White Hair Silver Needle, White Peony, and New Craft White Tea.

1. Gongmei

Gongmei White Tea is a finished product made from the buds and leaves of the Fuding Vegetable Tea (an alternative name for the general bush tea tree in the tea region of Fujian) group. Usually, Gongmei is indicated as the top grade, and its quality is superior to Shoumei. The picking standard for the fresh leaves used to make Gongmei is one bud and two leaves to one bud and three leaves, and the picking requires that the tea buds contain young and strong buds.

2, shoumei

Shoumei, is a variety of white tea with the highest production, its production accounts for more than half of the total white tea production. Shoumei by the Fuding large white tea, Fuding large milled tea, vegetable tea group of young slightly a bud three, four leaves made of finished products, or the production of white hair silver needle picked by the young slightly by the extraction of the needle after the rest of the leaves made of finished tea.

3, white silver needle

White Silver Needle, referred to as Silver Needle, also known as the white hair, because of its white hair dense phi, color white as silver, the shape of the needle and so named, its aroma is fresh, yellowish soup color, fresh taste, is the best white tea, known as the beauty of the tea, the king of the beauty of the tea. White Hair Silver Needle will traditionally be the finished product made from the young, slightly fattened buds of the Large White Tea or Narcissus tea tree.

4. White Peony

White Peony is named after its green leaves with silver-white centers, which resemble flowers, and the green leaves holding the young buds after brewing. White Peony is made from one or two leaves of the short buds of the large white tea tree or Narcissus species, and is the finest white tea.

5. New Technology White Tea

The fresh leaves of the new technology white tea are similar to Shoumei and Gongmei, but after withering and light kneading, the dry tea is in the shape of stripes, with an aroma similar to that of oolong tea.