Why is black in English for black tea?

Black tea: black tea; Keemun Black Tea

Because foreigners look at the color of tea, not the color of tea. People in China pay more attention to the color of tea soup, so they call it "red".

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As we all know, in English, "tea" means tea. So "black tea" should of course be "black tea"? Just wrong. Interestingly, in English, what we call BlackTea is actually "black tea", and the literal translation of English is "black tea".

One theory holds that in the process of black tea processing, the color of tea leaves becomes darker and darker, hence the name black tea. In other words, Wuyi black tea bought in Xiamen is called black tea because it was black tea when Britain imported tea from Fujian in the17th century.

There is also a saying called "black" because Westerners pay more attention to the color of tea, while China people pay more attention to the color of tea soup, so it is called "red".

Black tea: Black tea, which is completely oxidized. We call it black tea. This is an early translation, and later it was changed to black tea, because the tea leaves of this kind of tea are black.

Green tea: both green tea and green tea can be said that. Biluochun tea in Jiangsu and Maofeng tea in Huangshan are both famous historical and cultural teas in China and belong to green tea.