What kind of tea does Rougui Dahongpao belong to? A detailed explanation of its tea category
The teas I know include green tea, black tea, fruit tea, flower tea, and the herbal tea I recently started trying. At first I thought Rougui tea was also a kind of herbal tea, because rougui (cinnamon) is a Chinese herbal medicine, but later I found that Rougui and Dahongpao belong to the same category of tea, so what kind of tea do Dahongpao and Rougui belong to?
Dahongpao and Rougui are both rock teas (yancha). Dahongpao is a famous cultivar (mingcong), though Wuyishan has turned Dahongpao into a brand, and some people also collectively call Rougui Dahongpao. But both belong to the same variety, rock tea.
Wuyi rock tea has the fresh fragrance of green tea and the sweet mellow richness of black tea. It is the finest among Chinese oolong teas and belongs to the semi-fermented blue-green tea (qingcha) category; Dahongpao and Rougui are the most famous of the Wuyi rock teas.