Chinese Tea Classification(中国茶叶品种分类)

Chinese Tea Classification(中国茶叶品种分类)

The main varieties of Chinese tea are classified as green tea, red tea (black tea), Wulong tea, white tea, yellow tea, and reprocessed tea.
中国茶叶的主要品种分类为绿茶，红茶（红茶），乌龙茶，白茶，黄茶和再加工茶。

Green Tea(绿茶)

Green tea is also called unfermented tea. It is made with the new shoots of appropriate tea trees as raw materials, by applying the typical techniques of inactivation, rolling and drying. According to the drying and inactivation techniques, it is sub-divided into stir-fried green tea, roasted green tea, sun-dried green tea and steamed green tea. Green tea has the characteristics of "green leaves in a clear soup with a strong astringent taste ". It is the tea category with the longest history (more than 3,000 years) and also the one has the largest output in China. Contact Us for Tailor-made Tea Culture Tours.

Benefits of drinking green tea: It helps with anti-ageing, and it also prevents computer radiation and bad breath.
Production Areas: Mainly distributed in provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi.
Famous green teas include: West Lake Dragon Well Tea, Xinyang Maojian Tea and Biluochun Tea.
 

West Lake Dragon Well Tea(西湖龙井茶)

West Lake Dragon Well is called Dragon Well for short. The tea of this name is produced in the mountainous regions around Longjing (Dragon Well) Village to the southwest of West Lake in Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. Dragon Well Tea has four wonderful features, its color, its fragrance, its flavor and its shape. It is emerald in color, thick in fragrance, sweet and refreshing in flavor and its leaves are the shape of a sparrow's tongue. The compounds contained in Dragon Well Tea, such as amino acid, catechu (an astringent substance used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.) and vitamins, have the effects of stimulating the production of bodily fluids, quenching thirst, refreshing, speeding up thinking, aiding digestion, removing greasiness, reducing inflammation and detoxification.

Hangzhou is one of the best places to experience tea culture. Tourists can visit Hangzhou National Tea Museum, which vividly depicts the evolution of Chinese tea over a span of thousands of years and the colorful tea culture. Also, the West Lake Dragon Well Tea Plantation located near the museum provides closer experience with Chinese tea and its culture.
Guilin Tea Science and Research Institute located near Yao Mountain is also worth a visit. Here you will get to know different types of tea, the production process, and enjoy a tea ceremony while sipping a warm cup of tea.
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绿茶
  绿茶又称不发酵茶。它是由同为原料适当的茶树新笋，运用典型的失活技术，轧制和干燥。根据烘干和失活技术，它是分分为炒茶，烤茶，晒干的绿茶和蒸绿茶。绿茶的“绿叶在一个清汤具有强烈涩味特色”。这是香港历史最悠久（3000年），也是一个茶叶类在中国拥有最大的输出。联系我们的定制国产茶文化旅游。
  喝绿茶的好处：它具有抗帮助老化，而且也防止电脑辐射和口臭。 
  生产区：主要分布在浙江，安徽，江西等省。 
  著名绿茶有：西湖龙井茶，信阳毛尖茶，碧螺春茶。

  西湖龙井茶
  西湖龙井是简称龙井。这个名字产区周围龙井（龙井）村的丘陵山区的杭州西湖地区，浙江省西南部。龙井茶有4个美妙的特点，它的颜色，它的香味，它的味道和它的形状。这是绿宝石色，香厚，甜和风味清新的叶子是一只麻雀的舌头的形状。在龙井茶，内容，如氨基酸化合物，儿茶（1收敛物质用于医药，染料，鞣革等）和维生素，有刺激体液生产的影响，止渴，提神，加快思想，帮助消化，消除油脂，减少炎症和解毒。
杭州是最好的地方之一，体验茶文化。游客可以参观杭州国家茶叶博物馆，生动地描绘出了几千年的跨距，丰富多彩的茶文化的中国茶叶的发展。此外，西湖龙井茶种植园位于附近的博物馆为加强与中国茶文化的经验。 
桂林茶叶科学研究所姚山附近，也值得一游。在这里您将了解不同种类的茶叶，生产过程，并享受茶道，同时喝了一杯茶温暖。

Black Tea(hongcha 红茶)

Red Tea is also called fermented tea. Only the new shoots of tea leaves are suitable for use as the raw material for making this tea. It is exquisitely made through the typical technical processes of wilting, rolling, fermentation and drying. Its infusion is mainly red in tone. Hence what is known as black tea elsewhere is known as red tea in China.

Benefits of drinking red tea: It warms the stomach and helps with digestion. It is a most suitable choice in cold seasons.
Production Areas: Mainly distributed in provinces of Anhui, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Hunan.
Famous red teas include: Wuyi Lapsang Souchong,Fuan gongfublack tea,Dianhong black Tea, Yixing black Tea, and Qimen black Tea.
红茶（black tea）
红茶也被称为发酵茶。只有茶叶新芽适用于在作出此茶原料的使用。它是制作精美的通过萎蔫典型的技术工艺，轧件，发酵和干燥。其输液主要是红色基调。因此，被称为什么地方是在中国著名红茶红茶。
喝红茶的好处：它温暖的胃和帮助消化。它是在寒冷的季节最合适的选择。 
生产区：主要分布在安徽，云南，江苏，四川和湖南两省分发。 
著名红茶包括：武夷山正山小种,福安功夫红茶,滇虹红茶,宜兴红茶和祁门红茶。

Wulong(Oolong) Tea(乌龙茶,半发酵茶)

Wulong (Oolong) Tea is also called blue tea, and is an unfermented tea. It is a tea category with some unique and distinctive characteristics. Wulong tea, as a blend of green tea and red tea, has qualities of both green tea and red tea. It not only has the thick and fresh flavor of red tea, but also has the pleasant fragrance of green tea. It is affectionately known as green leaves with a red edge.

Benefits of drinking Wulong tea: It decomposes fat and helps people lose weight.
Production Areas: Provinces along the southeast coast, such as Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.
Famous Wulong teas include: Wuyiyan Tea(wuyi rock tea,dahongpao), Tieguanyin, and Dongding Wulong Tea.
乌龙茶
乌龙茶（oolong tea）茶也被称为蓝茶，是一种不发酵茶。这是一个独特的一些特点茶叶类别。乌龙茶是绿茶和红茶结合，兼有绿茶和红茶的品质。它不仅具有厚，鲜红色的茶味道，而且还具有绿茶清香宜人。它亲切地称为红边与绿叶。饮用乌龙茶的好处：分解脂肪，帮助人们减肥。 
生产区：东南沿海省份如福建，广东和台湾。 
著名乌龙茶包括：武夷岩茶,大红袍，安溪铁观音，台湾冻顶乌龙茶的。

White Tea(白茶)

White tea is uncured, unfermented, fast-dried green tea. It is a specialty of Fujian province. It got its name from the recourse of poor Chinese of offering boiled water to guests if they didn't have any tea, which they called "white tea" (the word for white can mean plain in Chinese). Thus they would save face and come across as routinely hospitable. As might be imagined white tea is lighter in color and flavor than other teas.

Benefits of drinking white tea: It helps dispel heat within the human body. It also enhances immune function and protects the heart and blood vessels.
Production Area: Fujian Province.
Famous white teas include: Baihao Yinzhen (Baihao is a place name while Yinzhen means Silver Needle) and Bai Mudan (White Peony).
白茶
白茶是固化，不发酵，快速干燥绿茶。这是福建省的特产。这一切终于从穷人提供汉语煮沸的水给客人，如果他们没有任何茶叶，他们所谓的“白茶”（即白色意味着在中国平原字）追索它的名字。因此，他们将保全面子，经常好客来作为跨越。正如人们可能想象白茶的重量比其他颜色和茶的味道。
饮用白茶的好处：它可以帮助消除人体内的热量。它也提高免疫功能，保护心脏和血管。 
生产区：福建省。 
著名的白色茶包括：白毫银针（白毫是一个地方的名字，而银针一样的银形状）和柏毪聃（白牡丹）。

Yellow Tea(黄茶)

Yellow Tea is produced by letting damp tea leaves naturally turn yellow. It has an original smell, which could be mistaken for red tea if it is cured with herbs, but its taste is most similar to green and white teas. Yellow Tea is also a term used to describe the top-quality tea served to the emperor, because the imperial color has traditionally been yellow.

Benefits of drinking yellow tea: It refreshes the mind, and helps clear away heat and toxic materials within the human body.
Production Areas: Hunan Province, Anhui Province, Guangdong Province
Famous yellow teas include: Junshan Yinzhen, Mengding Huangya, and Dayeqing.
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黄茶
黄茶是茶叶生产的潮湿让自然落叶变黄。它具有原始味道，这可能是错误的红茶，如果它与草药治愈，但它的味道是最相似的绿色和白色的茶。黄茶也被用来描述高档茶，任期送达皇帝，因为中国皇帝尊贵的颜色历来是黄色。
饮用水黄茶的好处：刷新头脑，并帮助在人体内清热和有毒物质。 
生产区：湖南省，安徽省，广东省 
著名的黄茶有：君山银针，蒙顶黄芽，和Dayeqing。 
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Reprocessed Tea

Tea products which are made by taking teas from the categories above as materials and reprocessing them, is called reprocessed tea. The product range includes scented tea, pressed tea, instant tea, extracted tea, fruit tea, medicinal tea and health tea, which have a variety of flavors and effects.
再加工茶
茶叶是通过从上述各类茶为原料的产品和再加工其中，被称为再加工茶。产品范围包括花茶，紧压茶，速溶茶，提取的茶，水果茶，药用茶，保健茶，有各种风味和效果。

Scented Tea

Scented tea is made by mixing and aromatizing tea leaves with scented flowers, letting the tea assimilate the fragrance of the flowers by taking advantage of the absorption of tea leaves. The tea leaves used for aromatization of a scented tea is mainly roasted green tea and a small amount of slender and tender stir-fried green tea. When processing the scented tea, the fresh fragrant flowers are piled up layer upon layer so that tea assimilates the fragrance of flowers. When the tea has absorbed the flowers' scent new flowers are added and the process repeated. The degree of fragrance of a scented tea depends on the quantity of flowers being used and the time of aromatization.

Common scented teas include Jasmine Tea, Pearl Orchid Scented Tea, Rose Tea and Sweet-Scented Osmanthus Tea.

花茶
花茶是由茶叶混合和芳香留给了花香味，让茶叶吸收采取了茶叶吸收利用花的香气。茶叶的一花茶芳构化主要是用来烤绿茶和少量的细长和投标炒绿茶。当处理的花茶，新鲜的香花是堆积层层叠叠，茶叶同化的花香。当茶吸收了花的香味的花的增加和重复的过程。这种把花茶香气程度上花的数量取决于所使用的芳构化和时间。常见的香味茶包括茉莉花茶，珍珠兰花花茶，玫瑰花茶，桂花茶。