According to the different production methods of Yunnan tea, the tea types in Yunnan are mainly divided into five categories: Yunnan red, green tea, Pu'er tea, purple pressed tea and flower tea, with a total of more than 100 flower color varieties. Black tea, Pu'er tea is mainly for export, accounting for about half of the province's output, mainly sold to More than 50 countries and regions such as Hong Kong and Macao, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, etc. Green tea and flower tea are mainly sold domestically, and pressed tea is mainly sold to Tibet and some ethnic areas in the province.
Yunnan tea type 1: Yunnan red
Dianhong is the collective name of Yunnan black tea, divided into Dianhong Kung Fu tea and Dianhong crushed tea two kinds, mainly produced in Lincang, Baoshan, Simao, Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Honghe 6 places, 25 counties, Dianhong in 1939 in Fengqing trial production, has been placed by the Queen of England in transparent utensils as ornamental objects, its quality can be comparable to the world's best Indian, Sri Lankan and Kenyan black tea.
Yunnan tea type 2: green tea
Yunnan green tea includes sun-dried green, stir-fried green, roasted green and steamed green, as well as a variety of famous teas, throughout the tea areas of southwest Yunnan and southern Yunnan, mainly for domestic sales.
Yunnan tea type 3: Pu'er tea
Pu'er tea is a well-known traditional historical tea. The famous Pu'er tea in history generally refers to the fresh leaves of the tea plant planted with large leaves in Yunnan, which are made by killing, kneading and drying. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the green tea produced in southern Yunnan has been concentrated in Pu'er Province (present-day Pu'er County) for sale, hence the name Pu'er tea.
Pu'er tea is produced in two ancient tea regions of Simao and Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan. "Fog locks a thousand tree tea, clouds open ten thousand onions." The fragrance drifts ten miles away, and the taste is mellow in a cup. "This is people's praise for the origin and quality of Pu'er tea in Yunnan. Because Yunnan is located in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the traffic is blocked in history, tea transportation and sales rely on people's backs, from the Yunnan tea area to Tibet and Southeast Asia and Hong Kong and Macao, which lasted at least one and a half years, tea in transit, tea polyphenols in wet and wet conditions continuous oxidation, the formation of Pu'er tea special quality style. In today's developed transportation, the transportation time is greatly shortened, in order to meet the needs of consumers in the special style of Pu'er tea, the use of sun-dried Green Hair Tea through high-temperature artificial rapid hair alcohol treatment, made of Yunnan Pu'er tea.
Yunnan Pu'er tea has two kinds of Pu'er loose tea and Pu'er tight tea: Pu'er loose tea has a fat shape, brownish red color, pig liver color or gray white, which is divided into five grades according to the quality of good or bad; Pu'er tight tea is formed by autoclaving Pu'er loose tea, and the appearance is correct, uniform, elastic and moderate. According to the shape, it is divided into bowl-shaped Pu'er Tuo tea, rectangular Pu'er tea bricks and Qizi cake tea.
The endoplasm characteristics of Pu'er tea are: the soup color is rich and bright, the aroma is unique and fragrant, the bottom of the leaves is brownish red, and the taste is mellow and sweet. Mild in nature, resistant to storage, suitable for cooking or drinking, not only quenching thirst, refreshing, but also medicinal. After clinical trials, it has been proved that Pu'er tea is generally loved and welcomed by people at home and abroad because of its role in bacteriostatic, lipid-lowering, weight loss, prevention and treatment of hypertension, etc., with an annual export volume of more than 1,000 tons.
Yunnan tea type 4: pressed tea
Tightly pressed tea is a tea that is sieved and autoclaved with sun-dried green hair tea, with a tight knot in shape, orange and yellow soup color, mellow taste, long-lasting aroma, mainly produced in Xiaguan, Kunming, Jinggu, Menghai, Yanjin and other places. Its decors are:
(1) Tight tea. Ancient name "cow heart tea", commonly known as "brute tea", is the Tang Dynasty due to the evolution of tea, historically kneaded into a heart-shaped tight tea with a handle. The quality characteristics are: the color is moist, there is pekoe, the aroma is pure, the taste is mellow, the soup color is orange and red, the leaf bottom is still tender and uneven, the shape is smooth and neat, and the tea handle is complete. This tea is mainly used for butter tea.
(2) Cake tea. Because the shape is round, it is called cake tea. Yunnan large-leaf seed qingmao tea is selected as raw material, and processed through sieving, picking, autoclaving and other processes. This tea drinking method generally uses simmering, that is, after the tea leaves are placed in a tea pot and simmered with water, according to the habits of consumers, dilute with boiling water, plus salt or sugar to drink.
(3) Square tea. The raw materials and pressing process are the same as the tight tea, but the shape is different, and it is pressed into a square.
(4) Tuo tea. It is a traditional high-grade compacted tea with a unique style. It is shaped like a bowl and has a concave nest under it, like a compressed bird's nest. The raw materials are 50% of the first and second grades of Yunnan large-leaf qingmao tea, which are blended, sieved, colored and covered with pekoe, rich and fragrant, the soup color is orange and yellow, and the taste is mellow and sweet.
(5) Pu'er square tea. It is made of first-class raw materials of Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-dried green hair tea, seiko sieving, and autoclaved into a square block. The shape is tight and upright, the color is dark green, the silver is particularly prominent, the soup color is yellow and bright, the taste is mellow, the aroma is long-lasting, and the bottom of the leaves is tender and even. It has the characteristics of easy to carry and durable storage, and is mainly produced in Kunming.
(6) Kang brick tea. Produced in Yanjin County, it is one of the main products of the roadside tea in southern Tibet. The endoplasm is characterized by: brown color, pure aroma, mellow taste, soup color reddish brown, dark and coarse bottom flowers. This tea is mainly served to tibetan ethnic minorities to cook butter tea.
(7) Bamboo tube fragrant tea. It is a famous tea produced in Yunnan and a drink with a unique style for the lahu people. Produced in Menghai County, Xishuangbanna and Diwei District, Guangnan County, Wenshan, it is made by using Yunnan large-leaf tea plants that have been killed, kneaded and put into a tender and sweet bamboo tube that grows for one year and baked over a low flame. Bamboo tube fragrant tea shape like a bamboo tube like a dark brown cylinder, with buds and leaves fat, white and more, soup color yellow and green, clear and bright, rich aroma, taste fresh and sweet characteristics. There is both the mellow tea aroma of tea and the rich sweet bamboo fragrance, which both quenches thirst and relieves fatigue.
Yunnan tea type 5: flower tea
It is made with rich and fragrant flowers and fine Yunnan green. Due to the difference between the flowers and tea embryos, they are divided into jasmine tea, white orchid tea, pearl orchid tea, osmanthus tea, mass flower tea, and fragrant tea. Jasmine tea is divided into single smoke, double smoke and three smokes due to the level of tea embryos and the number of flowers. Yunnan flower tea is characterized by a strong tea flavor, fragrant floral fragrance, the two are integrated, complement each other, and after drinking, people make people leave a fragrance in the teeth.
Yunnan tea type 6: health tea
(1) Three seven tea. It is a bag brewed tea made of three leaves, stems and appropriate amounts of tea leaves, because three seven is also called Tian Qi, so it is also known as "Tian Qi Tea". Panax notoginseng is a valuable Chinese medicinal material mainly produced in Wenshan, Yunnan, and its leaves and stems are rich in panax notoginseng saponins, which have similar effects to ginseng. Sanchi tea has the health function of cooling and quenching thirst, invigorating the spirit, enhancing the physique, and has a good preventive effect on various diseases such as cardiovascular diseases.
(2) Gynostemma blue tea. It is made of Yunnan tea as raw material, natural gynostemma blue as an ingredient, and scientifically formulated and processed. Gynostemma is a gourd family plant grown in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, containing more than 50 kinds of saponins that have a health effect on the human body, of which 4 kinds of saponins are the same as ginsenosides, which is an immune enhancer with similar effects to ginseng, and is known as "southern ginseng" in China. Gynostemma blue tea not only has the characteristics of Yunnan tea color, aroma and taste, but also has the pharmacological effects of liver protection, hypnosis and sedation, lowering blood lipids, delaying aging, etc., especially for obesity, stomach ulcers, migraines and other diseases, which is a good product in precious health tea.
(3) Snow tea. Yunnan snow tea is a famous specialty of Dali, Diqing and Lijiang, because of its shape like snowflakes, and produced in the snowy mountains, so it is called "snow tea". Snow tea shape like hollow grass buds, gray color, after brewing with boiling water, the soup white is clear and bright, the aroma is unique, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, and has a special effect on the hoarseness caused by cold. The taste is sweet and bitter, and it can quench thirst. However, due to the special ecological environment in which it grows, the yield is limited.
(4) Kuding tea. Kuding tea is made by using the leaves of several wild plants in Yunnan as the main raw material and is made by scientific precision. This tea contains bitters, glucuronic acid, plant sterols, vitamins B and C, as well as minerals needed by the human body, its taste is refreshing and delicious, the aftertaste is sweet, the soup color is turquoise, and it has health care effects such as heat prevention, thirst quenching, and vitality. #Tea##Tea Life##Love Chinese Tea##云南 #