When buying tea, pay attention to four points: see, smell, taste, and touch. Among them, it is necessary to look at the shape, color and uniformity of dry tea. Talk about some of the more classic and common tea shapes, so that everyone can know what to expect, and buy tea can also step on a few less pits.
Flattened
Dry tea is flat like paper, relatively stretched and straight, this is because there will be a "pressure" step when making tea, and the fresh leaves will be flat and flat. Like Dafang tea and West Lake Longjing are flat tea.
Curled
As opposed to the flat shape, the curly tea has the step of kneading in the processing, and the tea leaves are kneaded in a certain direction, becoming curly, and after drying, they look like small waves of girls' hot. One of the representative teas is rizhao green tea, known as the "first tea in the north".
Spiral
The most typical is Dongting Biluochun, after all, its name comes from its shape. According to legend, Biluochun's original name was "Frightening People's Fragrance", and the Kangxi Emperor toured south to Taihu Lake, and the inspector presented it with this tea. Kangxi was very fond of it after drinking, asked the inspector for the name of the tea, after listening to it, he felt that the name was too vulgar, and saw that this tea was curled like a snail, the color was silver and blue, and the name was given "Biluo Chun".
Pointed
The shape is slightly pointed at both ends, and the most memorable thing should be the Taiping Monkey Kui, which has the reputation of "monkey kui with two tips, not scattered, not warped, not curled".
Pine needle shape
Tea strips are round and straight like pine needles, the fresh leaves selected for this kind of tea are very tender, all of which are one bud and one leaf, and the tea leaves are striped and rubbed, and the shape of the tea leaves becomes straight and slender after becoming tea, representing the tea with Nanjing Yuhua tea and Hunan Anhua pine needles.
Needle bud shape
The shape is similar to the shape of pine needles, shaped like needles, the difference is made of single buds, Hunan Junshan silver needles, Zhejiang Qiandao silver zhen, Fujian white silver needles belong to this category. For brewing tea in the shape of needle buds, it is recommended to use a straight glass cup, which can watch the tea buds dancing from all angles and slowly standing at the bottom of the cup.
Bouquet of tea
When making, choose buds of uniform length and length and tie them into the shape of a bouquet of flowers. Wuyuan moju and Huangshan green peony are among the best, such as blooming flowers after opening the soup, which can be drunk and artistically appreciated, which is an innovation in tea.
Granular
The tea leaves are tightly rolled into one grain after another, and the more classic is the Yongxi fire green in Anhui, the particles are delicate and heavy, if they fall into the tea bowl, there is a clanging sound.
Brick-shaped
Tea leaves, which look like bricks, are one of the more representative of pressed tea, with tea leaves, tea stems, and sometimes accompanied by block tea pressed with tea powder. Such as Hunan black brick tea, flower brick tea, porcelain brick tea, Hubei green brick tea, rice brick tea, Sichuan Kang brick tea and so on.
square
By pressing the shape of small squares, it is more common to have Pu'er square tea, Zhangping Daffodil tea cake, and white peony pressed tea.
Round cake shape
Loose tea is steamed and put into a special round tea mold, pressed into a round tea cake with thin sides and slightly thick in the middle, and divided into large cake tea and small cake tea due to different sizes. The Pu'er tea cake and white tea cake that we are familiar with belong to this category.
The shape of tea leaves is affected by many factors such as the variety of tea plants, cultivation conditions, fresh leaf quality, and tea making process. There are many kinds of Chinese tea, tea shapes are also varied, in addition to the text mentioned, you have drunk what special shape of tea, welcome to leave a message to share.
"Tea has four beauty of color, fragrance, taste and shape, especially in its noble inner beauty, public morality and righteousness, and pure sentiment."