Chinese Tea Varieties

According to the classification of the Chinese Tea Classics compiled by Chen Zongmao, tea includes green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and dark tea.

1,Green tea

Green tea includes: fried green tea, baked green tea, sun dried green tea and steamed green tea.

Fried green tea includes Mei tea, Pearl tea, fried fresh green tea,  Dafang tea, Biluochun tea, Yuhua tea, nectar, pine needles tea, etc.

Baked green tea includes ordinary baked green tea, tender baked green tea, etc.

Dried green tea includes Sichuan green tea, Yunnan green tea, Shaanxi green tea, etc.

Steamed green tea includes: fried tea, jade dew, etc.

2,Black tea

Black tea includes: souchong tea, kungfu black tea and black broken tea.

Souchong tea includes: lapsang souchong and smoke souchong tea.

Kungfu black tea includes: Chuanhong (Golden Dew, Red Dew, etc.), Qihong, Dianhong, Minhong (Jinjunmei, etc.), etc.

Black broken tea includes: leaf tea, broken tea, sliced tea and finished tea.

3,Oolong tea

Oolong tea includes:

Minbei Oolong (Wuyi rock tea – Dahongpao, narcissus, cinnamon, Bantianyao, Qilan, Baxian, etc., as well as some tea from Jianou Jianyang and other real estates, such as Aijiao Oolong, etc.).

Minnan Oolong (Tieguanyin, Qilan, Narcissus, Huangjingui, etc. The narcissus and Qilan here mainly refer to the difference of the main place, that is, the tea from the same tea place in different produced places).

Guangdong Oolong (Phoenix Dancong, Phoenix Narcissus, Lingtou Dancong, etc.).

Taiwan Oolong (Dongding Oolong Tea, Baozhong Tea, etc., and the popular Oriental Beauty also used to be this kind) Ali High Mountain Tea (Ali Mountain Qingxin Oolong Tea, Ali Mountain high grade Jinxuan Tea, etc.).

4,White tea

White tea includes: white bud tea and white leaf tea.

White bud tea mainly refers to silver needle tea.

White bud tea mainly refers to white peony, gongmei tea, etc.

5,yellow tea

Yellow tea includes yellow bud tea, yellow small tea and yellow big tea.

Yellow Bud Tea: including Mengding Yellow Bud, Junshan Silver Needle tea, etc.

Yellow small tea: including Beigang Maojian, Weishan Maojian, Wenzhou Huangtang, etc.

Yellow big tea: including Huoshan yellow tea, Guangdong big leaf green tea, etc.

6,Dark tea

Dark tea includes:

Hunan dark tea(anhua dark tea,etc.)

Hubei dark tea(puqi old dark tea,etc.)

Sichuan Side Tea (South Road Side Tea, West Road Side Tea, etc.)

Diangui dark tea (Liubao tea, etc.)

Shaanxi dark tea (Jingwei Fu tea, etc.)

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