What are the seven common types of tea in China?
The so-called seven types of tea are commonly referred to as green tea, black tea, oolong tea (green tea), white tea, yellow tea, dark tea, and scented tea. The first six belong to the primary tea category, while the scented tea belongs to the reprocessed tea category.
What are the top ten famous teas in China?
Chinese top ten famous teas are West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Huangshan Maofeng, Lushan Yunwu, Lu’an Guapian, Junshan Silver Needle Xinyang Maojian, Wuyi Rock Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, and Qimen Black Tea.
Where are the four major tea areas in China?
Since ancient times, tea production areas in China have been divided into different divisions. The modern tea area division can be divided into four major tea areas, namely Jiangnan tea area, Jiangbei tea area, Southwest tea area, and South China tea area.
What is arborvitae?
Arbor tea refers to the tea leaves produced by tea trees with tall trunks. The tea tree of Arbor tea can grow from several meters to tens of meters, and the tea pickers can directly stand on its trunk to pick tea.
Arbor tea’s tea trees are primarily distributed in some tea areas in Yunnan Province. Many of them are wild old tea trees with thick trunks, which can only be embraced by many people holding hands. Another semi-arbor type tea tree is between trees and shrubs. For example, Yunnan big-leaf tea is a semi-arbor type tea, and Funding Dabai tea is also a semi-arbor type tea.
What is bush tea?
Bush tea is relative to tree tea. The bush tea plant is relatively short, densely branched, and has no distinct trunk. Shrub tea is suitable for large-scale artificial cultivation. It is one of the most widely cultivated tea trees in my country. Jiangnan tea area is the main producing area of shrub tea in my country.
What is ancient tree tea?
Ancient tree tea usually refers to tea picked from arbor-type tea trees that have survived for more than a hundred years. This tea tree is only distributed in a few tea areas in Yunnan Province. The annual production of natural ancient tree tea is minimal, so the price is relatively high. Compared with other teas, old tree tea is more resistant to foaming and has a mellow taste.
What is high mountain tea?
Alpine tea usually refers to tea produced in mountainous areas above 800 meters above sea level.
High altitude areas have abundant sunshine and significant temperature difference between day and night, which is conducive to the photosynthesis of tea. It is precisely because of this unique geographical environment and climatic conditions that alpine tea has the characteristics of fat buds and leaves, long internodes, green color, and many hairs.
What is Flatland Tea?
Flatland tea refers to tea produced in flatland or low-altitude areas. Flatland tea is relative to high mountain tea. Flatland tea buds are smaller, the bottom of the leaves is firm and thin, the leaves are flat, and the leaves are yellow-green and less glossy. The characteristics of the finished flat tea are that the rope is more delicate, the body is lighter, the aroma is slightly lower, and the taste is mild.
What do spring tea, summer tea, and autumn tea refer to?
According to the picking period and season, Spring tea, summer tea, and autumn tea are named. Usually, the tea picked from March to April is called “spring tea,” the tea picked from May to July is called “summer tea,” and the tea picked from August to October is called “autumn tea.”
What is the difference between tea leaves in different seasons?
According to the picking season, tea leaves are generally divided into spring tea, summer tea, and autumn tea.
The fresh leaves that grow in spring are primarily dark green, plump and soft. Its quality characteristics are three:
- Strong taste
- High aroma
- Fewer pesticide residues
The quality of summer tea is not as good as that of spring tea, especially green tea. Because of the high temperature in summer, the buds and leaves grow fast, the content of active ingredients in the fresh leaves is relatively low, the aroma is lower than that of spring tea, and the taste is weaker than that of spring tea. In addition, the summer sunshine is strong, and the polyphenol content is high, forming a bitter and astringent taste. Third, summer tea has high fiber content, thin mesophyll, and thick and hard leaves. In summer, black tea is of good quality because of its high polyphenol content, conducive to fermentation.
The quality of autumn tea is between spring and summer. Because the growth period is shorter than spring tea, the accumulation of active ingredients in fresh leaves is relatively minor, so the aroma and taste are inferior. The mesophyll is similar to leaf texture and summer tea, and the cords are also thick and loose. In case of high temperature and little rain, tea tree water balance is out of balance, and the buds are often short.
What is “Three Fronts Picking Emeralds”?
“Picking green tea before three times” refers to the tea leaves picked before the spring equinox, the Qingming Festival, and the Grain Rain. The tea buds picked in these three time periods are the most tender, and the quality of the tea leaves is the best, so it is called “Three Fronts Picking Emeralds.”
What do “Mingqian Tea” and “Yuqian Tea” refer to?
“Mingqian tea” is the spring tea picked and made before the Qingming Festival in the Jiangnan tea area. “Rainy Tea” refers to the tea picked after the Qingming Festival and before the Grain Rain in the Jiangnan tea area. “Mingqian tea” is mainly for green tea and a small amount of black tea, but there is no such saying as “Mingqian tea” and “Yuqian tea” for Tieguanyin, Dahongpao, Pu’er, and other teas.
Is tea with a green food logo organic tea?
Both green food and organic food must be certified by relevant national testing agencies, but organic food certification is much stricter than that of green food. Essentially, green food is a transitional product in developing from ordinary food to organic food, so tea with a green food logo is not equivalent to organic tea.
What does “a bud and a few leaves” mean?
According to the specifications, fresh leaves can be divided into a single bud, one bud and one leaf, one bud and two leaves, one bud with three leaves, and one bud and four leaves.
One bud and one leaf, shaped like a “bird’s mouth.”
One bud and two leaves, according to the degree of leaf expansion, it is divided into open-faced leaves (the young shoots grow and mature, and there are fresh leaves with standing buds), small open-faced (the first leaf is half of the area of the second leaf), middle-opened leaves Face (the first leaf is two-thirds of the scope of the double leaf), wide open (the first leaf grows to the same size as the second leaf).
One bud and three leaves, a medium-quality tea commonly found in the market today.
One bud and four leaves, the picking of rough tea.