Longjing tea belongs to green tea, which is unfermented and cooler; black tea belongs to fully fermented tea, which is mild. Longjing tea has the characteristics of green tea with clear soup and green leaves, while black tea dry tea and tea broth is dominated by red color.

Longjing tea production process for picking, drying, kneading, frying, belongs to the six tea categories of green tea. The biggest difference between Longjing tea as green tea and black tea is the degree of fermentation, Longjing tea belongs to the unfermented tea, while the black tea fermentation degree reaches 70%-80%, so Longjing tea is green tea.

The finished Longjing tea is smooth and straight in shape, green and tender in color, light green and clear soup, and fresh and sweet in taste. Longjing tea has the characteristics of green tea with clear broth and green leaves, while black tea dry tea and tea broth is mainly red, which is very different from Longjing tea.

Longjing characteristics:

Longjing tea is China's famous green tea, produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, West Lake area, has a history of more than 1,200 years. Longjing tea color emerald green, rich aroma, sweet and refreshing, shaped like a bird's tongue, that is, "green color, fragrance, taste, sweet, beautiful shape," the characteristics of the four best.

Longjing tea famous at home and abroad, according to the origin of the lion, dragon, cloud, tiger, that is, the lion's peak, Longjing, Yunqi, tiger run four places, the Republic of China after the Meijiawu production has improved greatly.

Previously, people divided the quality ranking of Longjing tea according to the different qualities of the five origins, namely, Lion, Dragon, Cloud, Tiger and Plum. After the liberation, Longjing tea has been widely planted in Zhejiang Province, with varying quality, and is now uniformly divided into Xihu Longjing, Qiantang Longjing and Yuezhou Longjing, with Xihu Longjing having the best quality.