Tea contains catechins, cholesterol, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid and other ingredients, which can improve human health. Tea drinks - tea is known as "one of the world's three major beverages". It is very popular among people. So there are many types of tea, which classification? Next I will share with you The Complete List of Tea.

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First, the classification of tea

1, to the color (or production process) classification:

Tea category name production characteristics representative products

Green tea unfermented tea Longjing tea, Biluochun

Green tea semi-fermented tea Wuyi rock tea, Tieguanyin, Wenshan bag of tea, frozen top oolong tea. The tea is semi-fermented Wuyi Rock Tea, Tieguanyin, Wenshan Baojiao Oolong Tea

Yellow Tea Micro-fermented Tea Junshan Silver Needle

White Tea Mildly fermented Tea White Peony, White Hair Silver Needle, Anji White Tea

Red Tea Fully fermented Tea Keemun Jing Tea, Lychee Red Tea, Zhenshan Xiao Seed

Black Tea Post-fermented Tea Liubao Tea, Pu-erh Tea

2, to the seasons:

(1) Spring Tea: Refers to the year in late March to mid-May before the picking of tea. Spring temperature is moderate, the rainfall is sufficient, coupled with the tea tree after half a year of winter rest, making the spring tea buds fat, bright green color, soft leaves, and rich in vitamins, especially amino acids. Does not make the spring tea flavor and pleasant aroma, rich health effects.

(2) summer tea: refers to the tea harvested at the beginning of June summer weather is hot, the new tea tree buds grow rapidly, making it possible to dissolve the tea water leachate content is relatively reduced, especially the reduction of amino acids and other makes the tea soup flavor, aroma is not as strong as the spring tea, due to the bitter and astringent anthocyanins, caffeine, tea polyphenol content than the spring tea, not only to make purple buds to increase the color and lustre is not the same, but also taste More bitter.

(3) Autumn tea: that is, after mid-August harvested tea. Autumn climate conditions between spring and summer, the tea tree after the spring and summer seasons of growth, the new buds buds containing a relative reduction in the material, the leaves vary in size, the bottom of the leaf is brittle, yellow leaf color, taste and aroma appear to be relatively calm.

(4) winter tea: about the beginning of the harvest in late October. Winter tea is in the fall after the harvest, the climate gradually turned cold after the growth. Because of the slow growth of the new winter tea buds, the contents gradually increase, so the flavor is mellow, strong aroma.

3, according to its growth environment to points:

(1) flat tea: tea buds and leaves are smaller, the leaf base is thin, leaf spreading, leaf color yellow-green owed to the glossy. The processed tea leaves are thin, thin, light bone, low aroma, light flavor.

(2) Alpine tea: Because the environment is suitable for the tea tree temperature, humidity, shade habit, so there is a good tea said. With the different altitudes, resulting in the unique characteristics of the alpine environment, from the temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil to the trees growing on the mountain, these environments on the tea tree as well as the growth of the tea buds are provided with unique conditions. Therefore, compared with the flatland tea, high mountain tea buds and leaves are plump, green in color and velvety. After processing, the tea leaves are tight and plump. The white hairs are visible, and the aroma is strong and resistant to brewing.

Basic Characteristics:

Tea produced in China is divided into six categories: red, green, green (oolong), yellow, black and white.

1, green tea: green tea is unfermented tea, that is, the fresh leaves after spreading and drying directly under one or two hundred degrees of hot pan frying, in order to maintain its green characteristics.

2, black tea: black tea and green tea is the opposite, is a fully fermented tea (fermentation greater than 80%), black tea name from its soup color red.

3, black tea: black tea was mainly sold to the border areas, such as Yunnan Pu'er tea is a kind. Pu-erh tea is made by pouring water on green tea that has been made and then fermented. Pu-erh tea is popular in Southeast Asia and Japan for its lipid-lowering, weight-loss and blood pressure-lowering effects. But to really talk about weight loss, the most significant effect is still oolong tea.

4, Oolong tea: also known as green tea, is a class of semi-fermented tea between black and green tea. Oolong tea in the six types of tea in the process of the most complex time-consuming, bubble method is also the most elaborate, so drink oolong tea is also known as work tea.

5, yellow tea: the famous Junshan silver needle tea belongs to the yellow tea, yellow tea production method is a bit like green tea, but the middle needs to be smothered yellow three days.

6, white tea: white tea is basically made by the sun. White tea and yellow tea have a better appearance, aroma and flavor.

The above several common classification methods combined, Chinese tea can be divided into:

1, the basic types of tea:

(1) Green Tea: This is China's largest production of a class of tea, its color varieties of the world's first. Green tea has a high aroma, flavor, shape, beautiful, resistant to brewing and other characteristics. Its production process are after killing → kneading → drying process. Due to the different methods of drying during processing, green tea can be divided into fried green tea, baked green tea, steamed green tea and sun green tea. Green tea is China's largest production of a class of tea, the country's 18 tea-producing provinces (regions) are producing green tea. China's green tea color varieties of the world's first, tens of thousands of tons of exports each year, accounting for about 70% of the world tea market green tea trade. China's traditional green tea - eyebrow tea and pearl tea, to the high aroma, flavor, shape, beautiful, resistant to brewing and popular among consumers.

(2) black tea: the difference between green tea and green tea, lies in the different processing methods. Black tea processing without killing, and withering so that the fresh leaves lose some of the water, and then twisted (kneaded into a strip or cut into particles), and then fermentation, so that the polyphenols contained in the oxidation of tea, into red compounds. This compound is partly soluble in water and partly insoluble in water, and accumulates in the leaves, thus forming red soup and red leaves. Black tea is mainly small seeded black tea, Gongfu black tea and black tea three categories.

(3) green tea: semi-fermented tea, that is, the production of appropriate fermentation, so that the leaves are slightly red, is between green tea and black tea between a type of tea. It has both the freshness of green tea, and the sweetness of black tea. Because the middle of the leaf is green, the edge of the leaf is red, so there is a "green leaf red edge" of the name.

(4) white tea: a specialty of China. It is processed without frying and kneading, only the tender, leaf back full of hairy tea leaves dried in the sun or dried with the fire, so that the white hairs remain intact. White tea is mainly produced in Fujian's Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and Jianyang counties and cities, and there are several types of white tea, including "Silver Needle", "White Peony", "Tribute Eyebrow" and "Shou Mei". The "Silver Needle", "White Peony", "Tribute Eyebrows" and "Shou Mei" are a few kinds.

(5) yellow tea: in the process of making tea, after the smothering pile of yellow, thus forming yellow leaves, yellow soup. Sub "yellow bud tea" (including Hunan Dongting Lake Junshan silver buds, Ya'an, Sichuan Province, the famous county of Meng Ding yellow buds, Anhui Huoshan Huo Nei buds), "yellow small buds" (including Hunan Yueyang Beigang, Hunan Ningxiang Weishan Maojian, Pingyang, Zhejiang Pingyang yellow soup, Hubei Yuanan), "yellow small buds" (including Hunan Yueyang Beigang, Hunan Ningxiang Weishan Maojian, Zhejiang Pingyang yellow soup, Hubei Yuanan (Luyuan), "yellow tea" (including Anhui Huoshan yellow buds) three categories.

(6) black tea: raw materials coarse and old, processing pile fermentation time is longer, so that the leaf color is dark brown. Is Tibet, Mongolia, Uygur and other fraternal peoples indispensable daily necessities. There are "Hunan black tea", "Hubei old green tea", "Guangxi Liu Bao tea", Sichuan's "West Road side tea", "South Road side long", Yunnan's "tight tea", "flat tea", "square tea", "round tea" and other varieties.

2, reprocessed tea: a variety of gross tea or refined tea reprocessing known as reprocessed tea, including flower tea, pressed tea, liquid tea, instant tea and medicinal tea.

3, medicinal tea: drugs and tea pairing, made of medicinal tea, to play and strengthen the efficacy of drugs, facilitate the dissolution of drugs, increase the aroma and harmonize the taste of medicine. There are many types of tea, such as "afternoon tea", "ginger tea", "life tea", "weight loss tea" and so on.

4, flower tea: it is a product with flowers to increase the aroma of tea, very popular in China. Generally, green tea is used as tea blanks, a few also used black tea or oolong tea as tea blanks. It is based on the characteristics of the tea leaves are easy to absorb the odor, to the fragrant flowers to celling material processing and become. The varieties of flowers used are jasmine, osmanthus and several other species, with the most jasmine.

My conclusion: Tea Book is introduced to you here, from the world, in the above categories of tea, black tea is the largest number, followed by green tea, the least is white tea.