Huangshan Maofeng is green tea.

Green tea is one of the main types of tea in China, which refers to the beverage made by taking the new leaves or buds of the tea tree, unfermented, through the process of killing, shaping and drying.

The manufacturing of Huangshan Maofeng is divided into four processes: plucking, greening, kneading and baking. In terms of production process, Huangshan Maofeng is made from freshly picked tea leaves through a series of processes such as killing, kneading and twisting, drying, etc. This is a typical green tea production process.

From the time of year, Huangshan Maofeng every Qingming Guyu, fine picking good tea tree Huangshan species, Huangshan big-leaf species, etc. of the first fat shoots as raw materials, so Huangshan Maofeng belongs to the green tea in the spring tea.

Huangshan Maofeng is unfermented tea, due to its characteristics it retains more of the natural substances within the fresh leaves. Among them, the tea polyphenol, caffeine retained more than 85% of the fresh leaves, chlorophyll retained about 50%, the loss of vitamins is also less, thus forming a green tea "clear soup green leaves, taste astringent" characteristics. It is one of the top ten famous teas in China.

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Huangshan Maofeng grade classification

Huangshan Maofeng is divided into six grades: Huangshan Maofeng is divided into the special first-class, the special second-class, the special third-class and the first, second and third-class. First, Second and Third Class.

Huangshan Maofeng grade is extremely delicate. Special grade Huangshan Mao Feng, to a bud, a leaf, two leaves of the first spread of the fresh leaves made of excellent quality, white hair show, weight. One to three Huangshan Mao Feng fresh leaf picking standards for a bud of one leaf, a bud of two leaves at the beginning of development and a bud of two, three leaves at the beginning of development.

Special grade Huangshan Mao Feng is shaped like a bird's tongue, with white hairs showing, ivory color, and golden fish leaves. After brewing, the soup color is clear, the taste is fresh, thick, mellow and sweet, the leaf bottom is tender and yellow, fat and strong. Among them, "fish leaf golden yellow" and "color like ivory" are the two obvious characteristics of the appearance of the Special Grade Huangshan Maofeng different from other Maofeng.

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