What's the difference between Pu 'er tea cake and Pu 'er tea brick?

Pu 'er brick tea, also called autoclaved tea, is a kind of brick-shaped tea as its name implies. It is also a representative pressed tea, made of tea leaves, tea stems, and sometimes tea powder is added.

According to the different raw materials and production technology, brick tea can be divided into blue brick tea, rice brick tea, black brick tea, flower brick tea, Fuzhuan brick tea and Kangzhuan tea. All brick teas are autoclaved, but the molding methods are different. For example, green brick tea, rice brick tea, black brick tea, flower brick tea and Fuzhuan brick tea are all pressed by machinery, while Kang brick tea is hammered with a stick.

Pu 'er tea cake: also known as cake tea and group tea. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, "Ding Weifu turned to operate the Phoenix Regiment" and later became the Dragon Regiment. Ouyang Xiu's record of returning to the field: "Tea is more expensive than dragons and phoenixes, which is called group tea. Every eight cakes weigh a catty. " As a tribute tea to the court, Dragon Tuanfeng Cake has been used until the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, in September of the 24th year of Hongwu, he paid great attention to labor and human strength, stopped making dragon groups and only picked tea buds.