Green tea—
Also known as non-fermented tea. It is made from suitable new tea shoots by typical processes such as enzyme fixation, rolling and drying. According to the different drying and deactivating methods, it is generally divided into stir-frying, baking, sun-drying and steaming green tea. Green tea has the characteristics of "clear soup and green leaves, strong taste convergence".
Green tea is the earliest tea in history, more than 3,000 years ago, and it is also the largest tea in China. The producing areas are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other provinces.
Representative teas are West Lake Longjing, Xinyang Maojian Tea and Biluochun Tea.
Black tea-
Also known as fermented tea. It is made from the new tea bud leaves which are suitable for making this product, and refined by typical technological processes such as withering, rolling, fermentation and drying. Its soup color is mainly red, so it is named. Black tea can be divided into race black tea, kung fu black tea and red broken tea, which is the second largest tea in China.
The representative teas are Dianhong and Yixing Black Tea.
Oolong tea-
Also known as green tea, semi-fermented tea. It is a unique tea category among several major teas in China. Oolong tea combines the preparation methods of green tea and black tea, and its quality is between that of green tea and black tea. It not only has the strong flavor of black tea, but also has the fragrance of green tea and the reputation of green leaves with red edges.
The pharmacological effects of oolong tea are manifested in decomposing fat, losing weight and bodybuilding. In Japan, it is called beauty tea and bodybuilding tea.
Representative teas include Wenshan Baozhong Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin Tea, Frozen Top Oolong Tea and Wuyi Dahongpao.
White tea-
White tea is a slightly fermented tea, which is a special treasure in Chinese tea. Because its finished tea is mostly bud head, full of white hair, as silver as snow, it is named.
The main producing areas are Jianyang, Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and other counties in Fujian Province (with a small amount of production in Taiwan Province Province). The production technology of white tea is generally divided into two processes: withering and drying, and the key is withering. The characteristics of white tea preparation method are that it does not destroy the activity of enzyme, nor promote oxidation, and it keeps the fragrance and tastes fresh and refreshing.
The main varieties are Bai Mudan and Baihao Yinzhen.
Yellow tea-
It is found from the fried green tea that the color of the leaves turns yellow due to insufficient or untimely drying after fixation and rolling, so a new category-yellow tea is produced.
Yellow tea belongs to fermented tea, and the production of yellow tea is similar to that of green tea, but the difference is that there is one more stuffy pile process. This stuffy pile process is the main feature of yellow tea making method, and it is also the basic difference between it and green tea.
Yellow tea can be divided into three categories according to the tenderness of fresh leaves and the size of bud leaves: yellow bud tea, yellow small tea and yellow big tea.
The representative teas are Mengding Yellow Bud and Huoshan Yellow Bud.
Black tea-
It is a unique tea with a long history of production in China. In the process of processing, fresh leaves turn black by pile fermentation, so it is called black tea. Black tea can be brewed directly or pressed into pressed tea (such as various brick teas). Mainly produced in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces and autonomous regions. Because it is mainly sold to frontier areas, pressed tea made of black tea is also called edge-selling tea.
On behalf of tea, there is Pu 'er tea.
Reprocessed tea-
Reprocessed tea is a product made from the raw materials of basic teas-green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and black tea. It includes scented tea, pressed tea, extracted tea, fruity tea and medicinal health tea, which have different tastes and functions respectively.
Representative tea: scented tea includes jasmine tea and Zhulan scented tea; There are Tuo tea and Liubao tea.