Chinese tea culture is broad and profound, with a long history. China's tea areas are widely distributed, there are many varieties of tea plants, and the tea making process is constantly innovating, forming a colorful tea category. Today, Xiao Chajun will give you a list of China's top tea! The tea you've drunk is among them!
West Lake Longjing
Longjing is a roasted green tea, "the beauty of tea longjing", known as the color of green, shape, fragrant, mellow taste of the world, its unique "light and far" "fragrant and clear" unique charm and extraordinary quality, in many teas unique, ranked first among China's top ten famous tea. During the Ming Jiajing period, there is a record that "the teas of Hang County are not as good as the production of Longjing, and the fine buds before the rain, take a banner and a shot, especially precious".
Dongting Biluochun
Biluochun is produced in the area of East Dongting Mountain and West Dongting Mountain (now Wuzhong District, Suzhou) in Taihu Lake, Wu County, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, so it is also called "Dongting Biluochun". Biluochun as early as the Tang Dynasty has become a tribute, its production area is China's famous tea, fruit intercropping area, before the Ming Dynasty Biluo is as expensive as gold, 70,000 young shoots in exchange for a pound of Biluochun, so Biluochun is also known as "Kung Fu Tea", "New Blood Tea". When the biluochun is put into the cup, the tea is sinking to the bottom, and in an instant, "the white clouds roll over, the snowflakes fly", look at its shape, the color is tender and green and bright, just like the snow waves spraying beads, the spring dyeing the bottom of the cup, the green full of crystal palace. People praised: "Copper wire strips, spiral shape, full of hair, floral and fruity flavor, fresh and fresh".
Huangshan Maofeng
Huangshan Maofeng is produced in the Huangshan (Huizhou) area of Anhui Province, so it is also called Hui tea. The shape of the tea is slightly rolled, resembling a finch tongue, yellowish in green, silver and silver, and with golden yellow fish leaves (commonly known as gold flakes). Brew the mist into the cup, the soup color is clear and yellowish, the leaf bottom is yellowish and vibrant, the taste is mellow, the aroma is like orchid, and the charm is deep.
Junshan Silver Needle
Junshan silver needle belongs to yellow tea, its finished tea bud head is strong, the length and size are uniform, the inner surface of the tea bud is golden yellow, the outer layer of pekoe is complete, and the package is solid, the shape of the tea bud is very similar to a silver needle, ya called "gold inlaid jade". Junshan silver needle tea aroma is high, the taste is mellow and sweet, the soup is yellow and high, the buds are strong and multi-millimeter, the strips are really even, the white is like a feather, the buds are golden and shiny, with a pale yellow mushroom, the leaf bottom is thick and evenly bright, the taste is mellow and sweet, and its taste remains unchanged for a long time.
Anxi Tieguanyin
Tieguanyin is native to Xiping Town, Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, and is both the name of tea and the name of tea varieties. Tieguanyin has a unique "Guanyin rhyme", fragrant and elegant rhyme, after brewing there is a natural orchid fragrance, pure taste, rich and lasting aroma, there is a "seven bubbles have the reputation of afterscent".
Wuyi rock tea
Wuyi Rock Tea is a traditional Chinese tea, which is an oolong tea with the quality characteristics of rock rhyme (rock bone flower fragrance). Produced in the Wuyi Mountains in the "southeast of Xiujia" in northern Fujian Province, tea plants grow in rock crevices. Wuyi rock tea has the fragrance of green tea and the glycol of black tea, which is the best in Chinese oolong tea. The morphological characteristics of Wuyi rock tea are twisted leaf ends, resembling dragonfly heads, brown and oily in color, live, sweet, clear and fragrant, with obvious rock bone floral fragrance.
Six angua slices
Liu'an gua slices are produced in the Dabie Mountains area of Lu'an City, Anhui Province, Tang called "Luzhou Lu'an Tea", the Ming Dynasty began to call "Liu'an Gua Slices", for the upper grade, the best tea, because the tea is shaped like melon seeds and named, natural flattening, leaf edge slightly upturned, color bao green, size uniform, does not contain bud tips, tea stems, fragrant and refreshing, taste fresh and mellow back to sweet, soup color is clear and transparent, the bottom of the leaves is green and bright. Of all the tea leaves in the world, Liu'an gua slices are the only tea leaves without buds and stems, made from a single raw leaf.
Xinyang Mao tip
Xinyang Maojian, also known as Yumaofeng, is one of the top ten famous teas in China and one of the famous specialties of Henan Province. Because of its fine rope, round straight and sharp, white full of cloth and named "Mao Jian", and because of the origin in Xinyang so named "Xinyang Mao Jian", has always been known for "thin, round, tight, straight, more white, fragrant, strong flavor, color green" unique style and reputation at home and abroad. In 1915, Xinyang Maojian won the gold medal with Guizhou Moutai at the Panama International Exposition, and was known as the "King of Green Tea", one of the best quality famous green teas. The color, fragrance, taste and shape of Xinyang Maojian have a unique personality, its color is fresh, clean, does not contain impurities, the aroma is elegant and fresh, the taste is fresh, mellow, sweet, and from the appearance, it is uniform, bright green and shiny, and the white is obvious.
Angie white tea
Note that Anji white tea is not white tea, but green tea that belongs to one of the six major tea categories in China, and the young leaves emitted in the spring are pure white, which become white and green flowers and leaves when they are "old in spring", and are fully green until summer. The white tea ancestor of Anji White Tea is the only ancient tea tree left, which is said to be thousands of years old. Anji white tea belongs to the fermented green tea, the taste is light and smooth, and the amino acids contained in it are beneficial to the human body.
Phoenix fir
Phoenix single bush (fir), one of the four major oolong tea categories, mainly produced in Fenghuang Mountain, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. Phoenix single bush tea in addition to the above qualities, but also has a unique "mountain rhyme", the so-called "mountain rhyme" mainly refers to the taste, is a deeper expression of the inner quality, can only understand that this special "mountain rhyme" is the phoenix single bush tea quality unique key, but also different from other origin of single bush tea.
Pu'er, Yunnan
Pu'er tea is mainly produced in Xishuangbanna, Lincang, Pu'er and other regions of Yunnan Province, and is a loose tea and tightly pressed tea made of fermented and processed from Yunnan large-leaf qingmao tea as raw materials. Although Pu-erh tea is classified in textbooks as black tea in the six major tea categories, the reason is that they all belong to post-fermented teas. However, the processing of Pu'er tea is qualitatively different from the processing of black tea. Pu'er tea pays attention to brewing techniques and the art of tasting, and its drinking methods are rich, which can be drunk clearly or mixed. Pu'er tea soup orange yellow thick, high-edge and long-lasting aroma, unique aroma, strong taste, durable foaming.
Jin Junmei
Jin Junmei is the top variety of Zhengshan small-scale tea. After brewing this tea, its soup color is golden, with a light and sweet floral fragrance, honey fragrance, fruity aroma, sweet and lubricated, and the shape of the leaf bottom is small and tight, so the name contains "gold". Because the newly developed products only use a bud of a small and medium-sized tea tree produced in the lofty mountains as raw materials, and it is expected that the new work can develop like a horse, the name contains "Jun"
Lushan clouds
Lushan Yunwu was originally a wild tea, named after Lushan Mountain in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, China. The Song Dynasty began to be listed as "tribute tea". Yunwu tea has a unique flavor, due to the cool and foggy climate of Lushan Mountain and the short direct sunlight time, etc., its leaves are thick, millimeters, mellow and resistant to bubbles.
Fuding white tea
Fuding white tea is produced from Fuding "Huacha No. 1" or "Huacha No. 2" tea plant buds, not fried, not kneaded, special process made, its shape buds are complete, the soup color apricot yellow clear, taste light, sweet and refreshing quality characteristics. According to the different picking of buds and leaves, white tea can be divided into: white silver needle, white peony, shoumei, new process white tea, etc., in recent years, according to the needs of the market, it has launched a tightly pressed white tea. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, white tea was exported to Europe and the United States as a high-end tea, and the British aristocracy put in a few white silver needles when brewing black tea, showing its preciousness.