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White Hair Silver Needle, or Silver Needle for short, also known as White Hair, is the best of the only white tea family, and is famous for the same thing as Junshan Silver Needle. The Ming Dynasty Tian Yihang "Cooking Spring" said: "Tea to fire as a second, raw sunshine for the top, but also more close to nature, and cut off the fire gas ear." Visible white tea character of excellence." White hair silver needle" the origin of this name is because its manufactured products are mostly buds, full of body full of white hair, dry tea color such as silver, the appearance of slender as a needle, all take this elegant name.
2. White Peony
White Peony tea is another precious variety of white tea in China. It is named "White Peony" because of its green leaves with silvery-white heart, which is shaped like a flower, and after brewing the tea, the green leaves are holding the young buds, just like the buds of peonies in their first blossoming, thus the name "White Peony".
3. Gongmei (Shoumei)
Gongmei, sometimes called Shoumei, is one of the most widely produced varieties of white tea, accounting for more than half of the total white tea production. It is made from the buds and leaves of the green tea plant, and this type of gross tea made from the buds and leaves of the green tea plant is called "small white" to distinguish it from the "large white" gross tea made from the buds and leaves of the Fuding Dabaicha and Zhenghe Dabaicha tea plants. Before that, the buds of the tea plant used to be used to make strains of tea such as Baihao Yinzhen, but since then it has been used to make Baihao Yinzhen and Bai Mudan, while Xiaobai has been used to make Gongmei.
White tea is not widely produced in China, and it is very rare in the general area. The main production area of white tea in China is in Fujian Province, which contains the counties of Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and Jianyang. White tea has been produced in China for more than 200 years and was first pioneered in Fuding County, Fujian Province. Fuding County has a special high-quality tea tree called "Fuding Large White Tea", in the tea buds and leaves have a dense white hairs, is a rare good material for tea, the first use of this tea production to create white tea. After that, there are new varieties of white tea such as moonlight white tea, peony king and golden flower white tea.