Yellow tea is a lightly fermented tea, processing technology similar to green tea, just before or after the drying process, adding a "smothering" process to promote the partial oxidation of polyphenol chlorophyll and other substances. Its processing method is similar to green tea, its production process is: fresh leaves killed and twisted - smothered yellow, drying.

The process of killing, kneading and drying of yellow tea is similar to that of green tea, and the most important process is smothering, which is the key to the formation of yellow tea characteristics, the main practice is to wrap the tea leaves after killing and kneading in paper, or pile them up and cover them with a wet cloth for a few minutes or a few hours, to promote the tea billets in the role of water and heat to carry out the automatic oxidation of non-enzymatic, forming a yellow color.

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The production of yellow tea is similar to that of green tea, with the difference being that it is more of a smothering process. This smothering process is the main feature of the yellow tea production method, and it is also the basic difference between it and green tea. Green tea is not fermented, while yellow tea is fermented tea.

Yellow tea bud tea and leaf tea, the new buds and leaves have different requirements: in addition to the yellow tea requirements of 1 bud 4, 5 leaves of the new, the rest of the yellow tea have the buds and leaves requirements "tender, fresh, uniform, pure" **** the same point. According to the tenderness of its fresh leaves and bud size, divided into yellow tea, yellow tea and yellow tea three categories.