As we all know, there are 6 major types of tea in our country, they are: green tea, black tea, yellow tea, black tea, green tea and white tea. Among these teas, do you know which type of tea in our country has the lowest yield, the lowest average domestic unit price, and the lowest annual output value? The answer is – yellow tea.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" >What is yellow tea? What are the common yellow teas? </h1>
In order to better understand why the annual output of yellow tea is the lowest, the average domestic unit price is the lowest, and the total output value is the lowest, we first need to understand what is yellow tea and what are common yellow teas.
Yellow tea is in the process of making green tea to add a stuffy yellow process, so that the chlorophyll in the leaves is destroyed, phenolic substances occur oxidation, the degree of oxidation determines the degree of yellowing of tea, the higher the degree of oxidation, the more yellow the tea.
The common smouldering techniques are mainly these:
After the killing, take advantage of the hot and stuffy pile, for example, the yellow tea in Taiwan mainly uses this process;
After kneading, it is stuffy, such as yellow soup;
After the initial drying (initial drying) of the stuffy pile, such as Huoshan Huangda tea;
Paper bags are low temperature and stuffy piles, such as Junshan silver needles;
Thin and stuffy piles, such as Huoshan yellow buds.
Tea paper wrapped stuffy yellow
Using different stuffy heaping techniques, the degree of yellowing of tea leaves is different, and the quality and taste of tea are also very different.
What are the common yellow teas in our country?
Yellow tea is generally divided into three categories: yellow bud tea, yellow small tea and yellow tea.
Among them, yellow bud tea mainly includes Junshan silver needle, Mengding yellow bud, Huoshan yellow bud and Yuan'an yellow tea;
Huang xiao tea mainly includes Pingyang yellow soup, Ya'an yellow tea;
Huangda tea mainly includes Anhui West Huangda tea, Guangdong big leaf green, etc.;
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the development status of yellow tea</h1>
In our country, the development of yellow tea is relatively backward compared with other teas, which is mainly reflected in the annual output and output value of tea. Our country's yellow tea is mainly distributed in Hunan and Anhui, two major tea-producing provinces, in 2018, the total output of yellow tea in our country was only more than 8400 tons, accounting for less than 0.3% of the total amount of all teas, and the total output value was only 1 billion yuan (dried hair tea). If I tell you that the total tea production of our country in 2018 was 2,616,000 tons, do you think that the annual output of yellow tea is pitiful?
In addition to the annual output and total output value of this data is not good, yellow tea also has a data performance is very poor, that is, the average domestic price is the lowest of the 6 major tea categories, 2019 our national statistics data is that black tea domestic sales price is the highest, the average per kilogram is close to 180 yuan, white tea second, the average per kilogram is close to 150 yuan, and the average domestic price of yellow tea is only 120 yuan / kg.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > so why is the development of yellow tea lagging behind so much compared to the other 5 major types of tea? </h1>
The main reason why the development of yellow tea lags a lot behind other teas is that these 3 points:
First of all, the popularity of yellow tea is not high, and the market heat is low. Because the popularity of yellow tea is not high, the heat is low, so yellow tea is not easy to be accepted in the market, to put it colloquially, it is not easy to sell, so its development is naturally lagging behind.
Some tea leaves are yellow tea on the surface, but in the actual processing and production process, in order to facilitate sales, the process of making tea is basically biased towards the process of green tea, such as the common Huoshan yellow bud in the market, many of which are made by using the process of green tea.
The shape and color of yellow tea is not as good as green tea, because yellow tea has undergone slight fermentation, so it is lacking in shape, many of them are curly, it looks far less good than straight green tea, and the color of yellow tea is dark and yellow, resulting in many people mistakenly thinking that it is old tea.
In short, yellow tea is the most low-key tea in the 6 major tea categories in our country, and no tea has worse data than yellow tea. Friends, what yellow tea have you heard of and what yellow tea have you drunk?