Definition 1:
Oolong tea is a general term for semi-fermented tea, and the six major types of tea in China are distinguished according to the severity of fermentation, including unfermented green tea, micro-fermented yellow tea, white tea, fully fermented black tea and post-fermented black tea.
There is also a huge span between micro-fermentation and full fermentation, which we call semi-fermentation. And the tea with fermentation within this category, we can generally classify it as the rank of oolong tea.
Definition 2:
Oolong tea is a general term for a large class of commodities, and in terms of technology, semi-fermentation is a fairly broad range.
Although these teas are all oolong tea, there are many genres and many changes, but they are nothing more than the four representatives we commonly see, the minnan oolong represented by Tieguanyin, the northern Fujian oolong represented by Wuyi rock tea, the Guangdong oolong represented by the phoenix single bush and the Taiwan oolong represented by the frozen top oolong, the four major categories of oolong tea have their own characteristics, but they are nothing more than the four characteristics of live, sweet, clear and fragrant.
Definition 3:
Oolong tea is a general term for a type of tea tree variety, no matter how complicated the naming method of each type of oolong tea is. It is nothing more than the tea plant varieties that try to produce oolong tea, and many times we will habitually call a certain variety directly oolong, which also indirectly causes everyone to confuse the concept of oolong tea.