The 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 is the opposite of green tea, it is a fully fermented tea (the degree of fermentation is greater than 80%). The name black tea comes from the red color of its soup.
3. Black Tea
Black tea was originally sold mainly in the border areas, such as Yunnan's Pu'er tea is one of them. Pu-erh tea is made by pouring water over already made green tea and then fermenting it. 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
Oolong tea, also known as green tea, is a class of semi-fermented tea between black and green tea. Oolong tea in the six categories of tea process is the most complex and time-consuming, bubble method is also the most elaborate, so drinking oolong tea is also known as drinking 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 in yellow for three days;
6. white tea
White tea is basically made by the sun. White and yellow teas are excellent in appearance, aroma and flavor.
Combining the above common classifications, Chinese tea can be divided into two major categories:
Basic Tea:
Green Tea ---- This is China's largest production of a class of tea, and the number of varieties of its color tops the list in the world. Green tea has a high aroma, flavor, beautiful shape, resistant to brewing and other characteristics. Its production process is through the process of greening, kneading and drying. 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-clean 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 fragrance, flavor, shape, beautiful, resistant to brewing, and popular with consumers at home and abroad.
Black tea ---- The difference between black tea and green tea lies in the different processing methods. Black tea processing without killing, and withering, so that the fresh leaves lose cloud part of the water, and then kneading (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. There are three main types of black tea: small seed black tea, Gongfu black tea and black broken tea.
Green tea (oolong tea)---- is a semi-fermented tea, that is, the production of appropriate fermentation, so that the leaves are slightly red, is a kind of tea between green tea and black tea. It has both the freshness of green tea and the sweetness of black tea. Because the middle of the leaf is green, the leaf edge is red, so there is a "green leaf red edge" called.
White tea ---- is a specialty of China. It is processed without frying or kneading, and only the tender, leaf back full of hairy tea leaves are dried in the sun or dried with a gentle fire, so that the white hairs are preserved intact. White tea is mainly produced in Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and Jianyang counties in Fujian Province, and there are several kinds of white tea, including "Silver Needle", "White Peony", "Tribute Eyebrow" and "Shou Mei". The name is "Silver Needle", "White Peony", "Tribute Eyebrows" and "Shou Mei".
Yellow Tea ---- In the process of tea making, it is smothered and yellowed, thus forming yellow leaves and yellow soup. Sub "yellow bud tea" (including Hunan Dongting Lake Junshan silver buds, Sichuan Ya'an, famous county of Meng Ding yellow buds, Anhui Huoshan Huo Nei buds), "yellow small tea" (including Yueyang, Hunan Yueyang Beigang in, Hunan Ningxiang Weishan Maojian, Zhejiang Pingyang Pingyang yellow soup, Hubei Yuan'an deer garden), "yellow tea" (including Yueyang, Hunan, Weishan Maojian, Zhejiang Pingyang yellow soup, Hubei Yuan'an). Yuanan's Luyuan), "yellow big tea" (including the big leaf green, Anhui's Huoshan yellow tea) three categories.
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 tea", "South Road side tea", "South Road side tea", "South Road side tea", "South Road side tea", "South Road side tea", "South Road side tea". "South Road Border Tea", Yunnan "tight tea", "flat tea", "square tea" and "round tea". "round tea" and other varieties.
Reprocessed Tea
To a variety of gross tea or refined tea reprocessing is known as re-processed tea, including flower tea, pressed tea, liquid tea, instant tea and medicinal tea.
Medicinal Tea ---- will be the drug and tea pairing, made of medicinal tea, in order to play and strengthen the efficacy of the drug, conducive to the dissolution of the drug, to increase the aroma, and reconcile the taste of the drug. There are many types of this tea, such as "afternoon tea", "ginger tea", "life tea", "weight loss tea" and so on.
Flowering tea is the most popular type of tea in the world.
Flower tea ---- This is a relatively rare variety of tea color. It is a product that increases the aroma of tea with the fragrance of flowers, and it is very popular in China. It is usually made of green tea as tea blanks, and a few of them are also made of black tea or oolong tea. It is based on the characteristics of the tea leaves can easily absorb the odor, with fragrant flowers to celling material processing and become. The chemical varieties used are jasmine, osmanthus and several others, with jasmine being the most.
From the world, in the above categories of tea, the largest number of black tea, followed by green tea, the least is white tea.