What is Black Tea?
Black tea
(1) Black tea is a post-fermented tea, one of the six major types of tea in China, and it is also an indispensable drink in the daily life of ethnic minority compatriots in China's border areas.
(2) The initial processing of black tea includes four processes: greening, kneading, pile-up and drying. Among them, Wodui is a unique processing process of black tea, and it is also a key process for the formation of black tea color and aroma quality.
(3) Black tea produced in Hunan: three bricks, three tips and one flower roll. Namely, Poria brick tea, flower brick tea, black brick tea; Xiangjian, Tianjian, Gongjian and Qianliang tea.
Bricks, black bricks, flower bricks
Hunan
1) Brick tea
(1) Poria brick tea is also known as Fucha, Poria tea, side tea, side sell tea. Because in ancient times, it must be produced in the summer "Futian" so it is named "Fucha", and because its tea tastes like the Traditional Chinese medicine soil poria, called "Poria Tea", and later in order to facilitate transportation and storage, the producer will build it into a brick pattern so named "Poria Brick Tea". At the same time, because Poria brick tea was once mainly sold to Xinjiang, Gansu, Tibet and other frontier provinces and regions, commonly known as side tea or side selling tea.
(2) The compression of porcelain brick tea must go through raw material treatment, vapor stacking, pressing and formulating, flower drying, finished product packaging and other processes. In the process of porcelain brick tea processing, it is mainly due to the large participation of microorganisms such as crown fungus that has formed a unique floral fragrance. (So there are golden flowers are bricks) Its taste is mellow, and the mushrooms are fragrant. Suitable for obese, three high people to drink.
2) Black brick tea
Black brick tea is produced in Anhua, Hunan. Using black hair tea as raw material, the color is black and moist, the finished product is blocky like a brick, and each piece weighs about two kilograms. The black brick tea brick surface is black brown, flat and tightly knotted, the pattern is clear; the soup color is brown and yellow, the aroma is pure, and the taste is mellow. Black brick tea does not have a flowering process and generally does not contain gold flowers. Black brick tea has a smooth taste and a rich tea aroma.
3) Flower brick tea
Flower brick tea: The raw material used is the raw material of hanamaki tea, and the production process is the same as that of black brick tea. The finished product of block-like Anhua black tea with patterns on all four sides of the brick surface is used to distinguish it from black brick tea, so it is called flower brick tea.
Three-tip and flower roll tea
Flower rolls
1) Three-pointed:
(1) The three tips refer to Tianjian, Gongjian and Shengjian, which were once renamed in 1972 and restored in 1983. The three-tip material is relatively delicate, is the top product in black tea, generally in the basket bulk, the three-tip of the Qing Dynasty in the tianjian and the tribute tip have been listed as tributes with their excellent quality.
(2) Processed from fresh leaves during the rainy season of the valley, the tea has a tight and beautiful shape, a smooth taste, and a unique aroma of pine smoke in the three tips of the traditional craft. Today, the output of gongjian and shengjian in the three tips is also decreasing year by year, and only the production of tianjian is retained, so the figure of gongsheng and sheng in the market is difficult to find.
2) Hanamaki Tea:
(1) It was founded in the Jiangnan area of Anhua County, Hunan Province during the Qing Dynasty (1821-1850).
(2) Hanamaki tea is simple on the outside, shaped like a tree trunk, tight inside, dry tea is black and oily, the aroma is pure pine smoke, and the taste is mellow and slightly brown sugar ginger water. The hanamaki tea making process is the most unique, and the Senju tea stepping process is listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. Hanamaki tea is packaged in the shape of a tree with rice dumpling leaves (indigo leaves).
How to identify the advantages and disadvantages of black tea?
Differential
Black tea dark tea
(1) Look at the shape: look at the color, cord, stem content of dry tea, smell the aroma of dry tea. Black tea has a fermented fragrance, old tea has a chen fragrance; the tightly pressed tea brick surface is complete, the mold is clear, the edges are clear, and there is no crack on the side; the loose tea strips are evenly aligned and the oil is of good quality.
(2) Look at the color of dry tea: different types of black tea have different colors of dry tea. For example, the color of black brick tea is dark and oily, the porcelain brick tea is frog skin blue, and the green brick tea is green and yellow.
(3) Smell the tea aroma of dry tea: pure Anhua black tea with pine smoke fragrance and sweet wine fermentation aroma, Anhua brick has "fungus flower fragrance".
(4) Look at the soup color of the tea soup: a good Anhua black tea color is like amber, pure and translucent.
(5) Taste: Good quality Anhua black tea is mellow and smooth in the mouth.