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Types of Chinese tea and what are the representative teas

1. Green Tea: Green tea is unfermented tea, i.e., fresh leaves that are spread out and dried and then directly fried in a hot pan of one or two hundred degrees to maintain its green color.

The main flowers are: Emei snow buds, Xihu Longjing, Rizhao green tea, Thousand Islands silver needle, Tianmu Yunwu tea, snowy water cloud green, Kaihua Long Ding, Anji white tea, Yunwu Mao Jian, Zeng Hou Yinjian, snowy green tea, Biluochun, Mount Huangshan Maofeng, Lushan Yunwu, Anhua pine needles, Anhua Yinhao, Yuntai spring buds, Seeking happiness silver coins, Liu'an Gua Pian, Mengding Tea, Taiping Monkey Kui Tea, Guzhu Purple Bamboo Shoots tea, Xinyang Mao Jian, Bamboo leaf green, Duyun Mao Jian tea, Ping Shui Zhu tea, Xishan tea, Yandang Mao Feng, Huading Yunwu tea, Yongxi Huoqing tea, Jingting green snow tea, Emei Erui tea, Duyun Mao Jian tea, Enshi Yulu tea, Wuyuan Mingmei tea, rain tea, Moganshan yellow buds tea, Wushan Gaimi tea, Putuo Buddha tea, Xinong Mao Jian.

2. Black Tea: Black tea is the opposite of green tea, it is a fully fermented tea (fermentation degree greater than 80%). The name of black tea comes from the red color of its soup.

China's black tea varieties are: Qihong - produced in Anhui Qimen, to Germany and Jiangxi Fuliang and other places; Dianhong - produced in Yunnan Fohai, Shuning, etc.; Huohong - produced in Anhui Lu'an, Huoshan, etc.; Suhong - produced in Jiangsu Yixing; Yuehong Red - produced in Hunan Anhua (Hunan Province Anhua Tea Factory), Xinhua, Taoyuan, etc.; Sichuan red - produced in Sichuan Yibin, Gaoxian, etc.; Wu red - produced in Guangdong Yingde and other places. In particular, Keemun black tea is the most famous. There are many varieties of black tea in the world, and the place of origin is also very wide, in addition to China, India, Sri Lanka also has a similar production of black tea. Kung Fu black tea is China's unique black tea varieties, but also our traditional export commodities. The world's four famous black tea are: Keemun black tea, Assam black tea, Darjeeling black tea, Ceylon Highland black tea.

3. black tea: black tea was mainly sold to the border areas, like Yunnan Pu'er tea and Hunan Anhua black tea is the traditional Chinese classic black tea. Pu-erh tea is divided into two kinds of "one is the traditional Pu-erh tea, that is, raw tea", is the Yunnan unique large-leafed species of sun-green tea, natural drying by steaming for a certain period of time to store the formation of the characteristics of the tea. The other is the modern Pu-erh tea, or ripe tea, which is formed by solid-state fermentation with microorganisms in damp water. Anhua black tea is also divided into two kinds, one is black brick tea, shaped like a brick, after fermentation by the brick mold pressed into. The other is a thousand two tea, shaped like a stump, after fermentation, steaming by multi-layer gabion bundled pressure, each according to the 16 two ancient market weighing 1000 two, modern in order to facilitate the sale of portable, generally made into a system of 100 two tea or 10 two tea. Black tea has the effect of lowering fat, weight loss and lowering blood pressure, in Southeast Asia and Japan is very popular. But really to say weight loss, the most significant effect may be oolong tea.

4. Oolong tea: Oolong tea, also known as green tea, is a class of semi-fermented tea between black and green tea. Oolong tea is the most complex and time-consuming process among the six types of tea, and the brewing method is also the most elaborate, so drinking oolong tea is also known as drinking Gongfu tea.

The main colors are: Wuyi Rock Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, Phoenix Monoceros, Frozen Top Oolong Tea and so on.

5. Yellow tea: the famous Junshan silver needle tea belongs to the yellow tea, yellow tea is a bit like green tea, but the middle needs to be smothered yellow process.

The main colors are: Junshan Silver Needle, Weishan Mao Jian, Huoshan Yellow Buds, Huoshan Huang Da Tea and so on.

6. White Tea: White tea, on the other hand, is mainly made by withering and drying. White tea shape, aroma and flavor are very good.

The main flower colors are: White Hair Silver Needle, White Peony .