Characteristics of White Tea

The characteristics of white tea: yellowish green and clear soup color, light and sweet taste.

White tea has the appearance of complete buds and hairs, full of hairs, hair aroma and freshness, the soup color is yellowish-green and clear, the taste is light and sweet, it is a special treasure in the Chinese tea category.

White tea (White tea), is a slightly fermented tea, is a traditional tea created by Chinese tea farmers. It is one of the six major types of tea in China. This kind of tea is not killed or kneaded, only after the sun or fire drying processed tea. Because its finished tea is mostly buds, full of white hair, such as silver like snow and so named. The main production areas in Fujian Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi, Jianyang, Yunnan Jinggu and other places.

White Tea

White Tea, known as the treasure of tea, has a long history. History, the Eastern Han Dynasty, a young man called Yin Zhen with home-grown homemade "tian", visit the famous Confucian master Xu Shen, by the door by the difficult, it will be under the eaves of the mat chewing "tian", a moment, Xu Shen's entire mansion overflowing with the rich fragrance of tea.

Xu Shen paced out the traceability, then invited Yin Zhen into the study, will be its "tian" brewing phase view, but see its beautiful shape, white leaf bottom such as a silver needle falling pot, soup color green and bright, tasting the taste of fresh and fresh and mellow, and occasional elegant bitterness instantly Zinsheng in the mouth. More inspired by its "Shuowen Jiezi" in the "Tuan" note, with "_, Ming, _" translation of the word "Tuan" color, aroma and taste.

The name of white tea first appeared in the Tang Dynasty Lu Yu's "Tea Scripture" seven things, which recorded: "Yongjia County, three hundred miles east of the white tea mountain." Prof. Chen Citron pointed out in the General History of Tea: "Yongjia east three hundred miles is the sea, is the error of the south three hundred miles. South three hundred miles is fujian fuding (tang for changxi county jurisdiction), is the origin of white tea."

See the Tang Dynasty Changxi County (Fujian Fuding) has cultivated "white tea" varieties. Because it only has a name, whether it can be used as evidence of the origin is still subject to further debate. Some scholars believe that the white tea began in the Shennong taste herbs period, Hunan Agricultural College, Mr. Yang Wenhui held this view. He published "on the origins of white tea debatable period" in an article proposed that the emergence of white tea earlier than green tea.