What is white tea?

White tea is a kind of micro-fermented tea, which is a traditional famous tea created by tea farmers in China. It refers to a kind of tea that is picked and processed only by sun drying or slow fire drying without fixing and twisting.

Because its finished tea is mostly bud head, full of white hair and silver as snow, it is named. The main producing areas are Fuding, Zhenghe, Jiaocheng Tianshan, Songxi, Jianyang and Jinggu in Yunnan.

Due to different varieties of tea trees, the standards for picking raw materials (fresh leaves) are different. The main varieties of white tea are: Churiya, Tianshan White, Baihao Yinzhen, Bai Mudan and Shoumei.

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The longer the storage time of white tea, the higher its medicinal value. White tea is also rich in provitamin A, which can be quickly converted into vitamin A after being absorbed by the human body. Vitamin A can synthesize rhodopsin, which can make eyes see things more clearly in dark light and prevent night blindness and dry eye.

At the same time, white tea also contains anti-radiation substances, which have a significant protective effect on human hematopoietic function and can reduce the harm of TV radiation. Therefore, it is beneficial to drink more white tea when watching TV, especially for children, which is beneficial to protect their eyes and keep fit.

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