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What are the top ten famous teas in contemporary China and what are their characteristics?

1. West Lake Longjing

It is the first famous tea in China. Produced in Shifeng, Longjing, Wuyunshan and Hupao areas of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Historically, it is divided into four categories: lion, dragon, cloud and tiger, among which the quality produced by Shifeng is considered to be the best. Longjing is famous for its "green color, fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape". The light is straight, the color is slightly yellow like brown rice, the taste is sweet and mellow, the aroma is elegant and lofty, and the soup is green and yellow. The leaves are tender and blooming.

Identification method: produced in Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The tea leaves are flat, tender, neat, even in width, yellow and green, smooth to the touch, with one or two leaves per bud; Buds are longer than leaves, generally less than 3 cm. Buds and leaves bloom evenly, without clips and fragments, and are small and exquisite. Longjing tea tastes fragrant, while the fake Longjing tea is mostly grass-clear, with too many clips, which makes it feel unsmooth and slippery.

2. Dongting Biluochun

Produced in Dongting Mountain near Taihu Lake in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Biluochun tea is fried with tender buds picked from tea trees in spring; High-grade "Biluochun" requires13.6 ~150,000 tea buds per kilogram of dry tea. The rope that is open to the outside world is tightly knotted, revealing white hair, silvery green in color, attractive in emerald, and curled into a snail shape, hence the name "Biluochun". The soup is clear and bright, rich and mellow, fresh and refreshing, and has a long aftertaste; The leaves are green and green.

Identification method: Luobi Peak, Dongting Mountain, Taihu Lake, Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Silver buds are exposed, one bud and one leaf. The total length of tea leaves is 65438 0.5cm, and there are 58000-70000 buds per 500g. The buds are Bai Hao curly, the leaves are curly and green, and the leaves are soft, uniform and bright. False is one bud and two leaves, and the bud leaves are uneven in length and yellow.

3. Junshan Silver Needle

Luoqing Island, which is produced in Dongting Lake, Yueyang, is described as "Dongting Di Zi hates spring and the grass grows for two thousand years". After brewing, there are three ups and downs, with beads on the tongue and many knives. The appreciation value is high.

Identification method: produced in Junshan, Yueyang, Hunan. It is composed of undeveloped fat buds. The buds are fat, straight and even, covered with fine hairs, golden and bright in color, fresh in aroma, light yellow in brown, sweet and refreshing in taste. After brewing, it seems that tender buds rush to the water surface, stand in the air, and then slowly sink into the bottom of the cup, like a group of unearthed bamboo shoots, standing like a silver knife. The fake silver needle smells like grass, and the silver needle will not stand up when it is soaked.

4. Lushan Cloud

Produced in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province. Lushan Yunwu Tea, called "Wen Lin Tea" in ancient times, has been called "Lushan Wu Yun" since the Ming Dynasty. This tea is produced in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province, and is a famous green tea.

Lushan Yunwu Tea is one of the famous green teas in China, and it is also listed as one of the top ten traditional famous teas in China. The majestic Lushan Mountain has had the reputation of "Kuanglu is the best in the world" since ancient times. Lushan Mountain is located in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. It starts from the flat ground and flies to the edge of rivers, lakes and seas, bordering the Yangtze River in the north and Poyang Lake in the south. Its main peak soars into the sky, with an altitude of 1543 meters. There are many cliffs and steep walls, deep valleys, criss-crossing, clouds in the mountains, unpredictable, and white clouds around the mountains at the turn of spring and summer. Sometimes a light cloud covers the mountain peak, and sometimes a cloud flows down from a steep mountain peak and pours into a deep valley. This magnificent landscape is called the "waterfall cloud" of Lushan Mountain. Clouds add a lot of magical scenery to Lushan Mountain. Clouds are named after tea.

Lushan Wuyun tea not only has an ideal growth environment and excellent tea varieties, but also has exquisite harvesting techniques. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, with the elevation rising, the exploitation of fresh leaves was postponed to May Day, with one bud and one leaf as the standard. After that, it was collected back to the camellia oleifera forest. Spread it thinly in a cool and ventilated place to keep the fresh leaves pure. Then, after nine processes, such as fixing, shaking and twisting, the finished product is made.

The technological characteristics of Lushan Wuyun tea: Due to the limitation of weather conditions, Wuyun tea is picked later than other teas, and it is usually picked in the garden between Grain Rain and the long summer. The picking standard is to spread one bud and one leaf first, and the length is no more than 5 cm. Remove purple buds and leaves with pests and diseases, pick them, spread them in a cool and ventilated place, and stir-fry them after 4-5 hours. It is refined through the processes of fixing, shaking, twisting, carding, rubbing, polishing, drying and picking.

The quality characteristics of Lushan Wuyun tea are: strong buds, fat leaves, white hair, green color, blue fragrance, deep taste, fresh and sweet, resistant to brewing, bright color of soup and soft fragrance after drinking.

Compared with Huangshan Mountain, Lushan Mountain was much more famous in ancient times. Celebrities of all ages praised Kuanglu as the first mountain in space outside the Five Mountains. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "I have traveled all over the world, and the landscapes I have visited are very rich, magnificent and bizarre, and few people can cross them. Kuang Lu is really the best in the world. "

Lushan Mountain is really the hometown and world of clouds. The clouds in Lushan Mountain are varied and changeable, sometimes like vast waves and sometimes like light flocs. The whole Lushan Mountain is immersed in misty clouds. "Qian Shan is in the haze, and everything is in the HarmonyOS system", just like the land of emptiness. Therefore, it has the name of cloud tea, "the fog buds suck up all the balsam." The moisture in the clouds promotes the accumulation of aromatic oil in the bud leaves, and also keeps the leaves fresh and tender, so as to make good tea with excellent fragrance and good taste.

The production method of Lushan Wuyun tea can be divided into seven processes: fixing, shaking, rolling, primary drying, rolling and secondary drying. High-grade Wuyun tea is beautiful in appearance, tender green, rich in aroma and durable, and it is the first-class green tea.

Lushan Mountain, known as "Kuangluxiu is the best in the world", is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north and Poyang Lake in the south, with mild climate and beautiful scenery, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. Lushan Mountain is rich in cloud buds, beautiful, sweet and clear in soup color, which is a fine product in green tea.

5. Qi Hong

Among the red wines that are popular all over the world, Qi Hong is unique and enduring for a hundred years. With its high fragrance and beautiful appearance, it has won a long-term reputation in the international market and is regarded as the leader of tea. Qi Hong is short for Qimen Black Tea. As a treasure in Kung Fu black tea, it won the gold medal in Panama World Expo in 19 15. Founded more than 100 years ago, it has maintained excellent quality and style, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Qihong has superior production conditions, such as good weather, geographical location, hardworking people, good planting and unique advantages. Therefore, most of the Qimen area is based on tea, which has been unbeaten for thousands of years. Qi Kung Fu tea has always maintained a high reputation, and its fragrance has always been there.

Qi Hong is famous for its high fragrance, which has a unique fresh and lasting fragrance. Tea teachers at home and abroad call it sugar fragrance or apple fragrance, which contains orchid fragrance, lofty and long, unique, and the international market calls it [Qimenxiang]. British people like Qi Hong best, and the whole country regards tasting Qi Hong as a kind of enjoyment. Royal aristocrats also regard Qi Hong as a fashionable drink, take tea as the queen's birthday, and praise tea as "the best product of all people".

6. Huangshan Mao Feng

Produced in Huangshan, Anhui Province, it is mainly distributed around Yungu Temple, Songgu Temple, Diaoqiao Temple, Ciguang Pavilion and Bansi in Taohua Peak. Here, the mountains are high, the forests are dense, the sunshine is short, there are many clouds, and the natural conditions are very superior. Tea trees are moistened by clouds, not attacked by cold and heat, and accumulate good quality. Mao Feng in Huangshan Mountain is very thin. Mao Feng tea is thin, flat and slightly curved, like a sparrow tongue, fragrant as cymbidium, and mellow and sweet in taste.

Identification method: produced in Huangshan Mountain, Shexian County, Anhui Province. Its appearance is tender and slightly curly, the buds are fat, even and sharp, the shape is a bit like "sparrow tongue", and the leaves are golden yellow; The color is light green and oily, the aroma is fresh, the water color is clear, the apricot is bright, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the leaves at the bottom of the leaves are blooming, rich and bright. Fake tea is yellow-brown, bitter and leaves do not bloom.

7. Anxi Tieguanyin

Produced in Anxi, Fujian, the production process of Tieguanyin is very complicated, and the produced tea strips are compact, moist in color and green in sand. Good Tieguanyin will condense into a layer of frost because caffeine evaporates with water during the production process; After brewing, it has natural orchid fragrance and pure taste. Drink with a small tea set, smell the fragrance first, then taste it, and suddenly feel full of fragrance and endless aftertaste. In recent years, after oolong tea was found to have the functions of fitness and beauty, Tieguanyin became more and more popular in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Identification method: Anxi County, Fujian Province. The leaves are as heavy as iron, as beautiful as Guanyin, mostly spiral, with sand green color, smooth green pedicle and natural orchid fragrance. The soup is clear and golden in color, mellow and sweet in taste, slightly bitter in mouth, immediately sweet, resistant to brewing, full and bright with green and red edges, and each kind of tea has tea branches. The fake tea leaves are slender and thick, with no green and red edges.

8. Yunnan Pu 'er tea

Pu 'er tea is a new variety cultivated on the basis of Yunnan Daye tea. Pu 'er tea, also known as Dianqing tea, originated in Pu 'er County, hence its name, with a history of 1700 years. It is named after processing tea from 1 1 counties such as Youle, Deng Ping and Yibang in Pu 'er County.

Pu 'er tea producing area has warm climate, abundant rainfall, high humidity, deep soil layer and rich organic matter content. Tea trees are classified into tree types or large tea trees, and the bud leaves are extremely fat and dense, with good tenderness and excellent quality. The picking period begins in March, and 1 1 can be picked continuously. In the production habit, it is divided into three stages: spring, summer and autumn tea. The standard for picking tea is two or three leaves. The production method is a method for making secondary fermented green tea, which includes eight procedures: enzyme fixation, primary rolling, primary fermentation, secondary rolling, secondary fermentation, primary drying, secondary rolling and drying.

In ancient times, Pu 'er tea was used as medicine. Its quality characteristics are: high, sharp and lasting aroma, with the unique aroma of Yunnan Daye tea, strong and exciting taste; Bubble-resistant, still fragrant after brewing for five or six times. The soup is orange, with strong buds and thick leaves. The leaves are reddish, between yellow and green, with thick cords and thick white hair.

Pu 'er tea is divided into bulk tea and bulk tea. Distribution ports, Australia and Japan. Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, France and more than a dozen countries.

9. Frozen top oolong

Frozen top oolong tea is known as a saint in Taiwan tea. Produced in Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan Province Province. Its fresh leaves are collected from tea tree, a variety of Qingxin oolong tea, so it is also called "frozen top oolong tea". Frozen top is the name of the mountain, and oolong is the name of the variety. However, judging from its fermentation degree, it belongs to mild semi-fermented tea, and its production law is similar to that of packaged tea, so it should belong to packaged tea.

Wenshan Baozhonghe Frozen Top Oolong is a sister tea. Frozen top tea has excellent quality and is in a leading position in Taiwan Province tea market. The selected products are dark green and bright in appearance, with frog-skin-like gray spots, tight knots, bending and strong aroma of dry tea; After brewing, the soup is slightly orange-yellow, with obvious fragrance, similar to osmanthus fragrance. The soup is mellow and sweet, with a strong throat rhyme. The leaves have red edges at the bottom and light green in the middle.

10. Suzhou jasmine tea

The best jasmine tea in China. Suzhou jasmine tea has a history of 250 years and began to develop around Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty. According to historical records, Suzhou planted jasmine in the Song Dynasty and used it as the raw material for tea making. By 1860, Suzhou jasmine tea has been sold in Northeast China and North China.

Suzhou jasmine tea varies in strength according to the tea embryo, flower quantity, fragrance number and flowering season, and its fragrance varies according to the flowering period. The fragrance of the first flower is weak, and the fragrance of "Youhua" is the strongest. Suzhou jasmine tea is mainly green baked, and there are also several kinds of tea, such as killing tea, sharp tea and generous tea. Ultra-high is also the advanced scented tea made by Longjing, Biluochun and Mao Feng. Compared with similar scented tea, it is fragrant, fragrant, mellow and fragrant, and the soup is yellow and green.