Green tea -
Also known as unfermented tea. With suitable tea tree new tops as raw materials, by killing, kneading, drying and other typical processes made. According to its drying and killing methods are different, generally divided into fried green, baked green, sun green and steamed green tea, green tea formed a "clear soup green leaves, taste astringent" and other characteristics.
Green tea is the earliest history of tea, more than three thousand years ago, but also China's largest production of tea, producing areas are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other provinces.
Representative teas are Xihu Longjing, Xinyang Maojian, Biluochun
Black tea--
Also known as fermented tea. It is made from the new buds and leaves of the tea tree, which are suitable for the production of this product, and refined through typical processes such as withering, kneading, fermentation and drying. Its soup color is dominated by red, hence the name. Black tea can be divided into small species of black tea, Gongfu black tea and black broken tea, the second largest tea category in China.
Representative teas are Dian Hong, Yixing black tea
Oolong tea -
Also known as green tea, semi-fermented tea. Is China's major tea categories, unique and distinctive characteristics of the tea category. Oolong tea synthesizes the green tea and black tea production method, its quality between green tea and black tea, both black tea's strong fresh flavor, green tea's fragrance, and has the reputation of the green leaves and red edging.
The pharmacological effects of oolong tea, highlighted in the decomposition of fat, weight loss and beauty. In Japan, it is called beauty tea, fitness tea.
Representative teas are Wenshan Baojiao tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, Jieding Oolong tea, Wuyi Dahongpao
White Tea--
White Tea is a mildly fermented tea, and it is a special treasure of China's tea category. It is named because its finished tea is mostly buds, full of white hairs, like silver like snow.
The main producing areas in Fujian Province (Taiwan Province also has a small amount of production) Jianyang, Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and other counties. The production process of white tea is generally divided into two processes, withering and drying, and the key lies in withering. White tea production method is characterized by neither destroying enzyme activity, nor promote oxidation, and keep the fragrance of the hair show, soup flavor fresh and crisp.
The main varieties of white tea are white peony, white hair silver needle
Yellow tea--
People from the frying green tea found that, due to the insufficient drying or untimely drying of the green tea after the killing and kneading, the color of the leaves becomes yellow, and a new category was created--Yellow tea. yellow tea.
Yellow tea is fermented tea, yellow tea production and green tea have similarities, the difference is that more than one smothering process. This smothering process is the main feature of the yellow tea production method, but also the basic difference between it and green tea.
Yellow tea according to the tenderness of the fresh leaves and the size of the buds, is divided into three categories: yellow bud tea, yellow small tea and yellow tea.
Representative teas are Mengding yellow buds, Huoshan yellow buds
Black tea--
It is a unique type of tea with a very long history of production in China. In the process of processing, the fresh leaves are blackened by fermentation, so it is called black tea. Black tea can be directly brewed for drinking, but also can be pressed into tightly pressed tea (such as a variety of brick tea). It is mainly produced in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces and autonomous regions. Because it is mainly sold to the border areas, the pressed tea made of black tea is also known as border tea.
Representative tea Pu'er tea
Reprocessed tea -
The basic tea - green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, black tea, the raw material by the reprocessing of the product is called reprocessed tea. It includes floral tea, pressed tea, extracted tea, fruit-flavored tea and medicinal health tea, etc., which have different tastes and effects.
Representative teas: jasmine tea, orchid tea; pressed tea and six fortress tea