What Is Green Tea? An Introduction to Common Green Tea Varieties

The fall of a single leaf, a pool of boiling water, the taste of the water changed by the leaf, and from then on there was tea. Tea is life waiting to be awakened. Since ancient times people have loved drinking tea. Green tea is moreover the earliest tea type to appear. Today we will talk about green tea and the varieties of green tea

What Is Green Tea

Green tea is a very common major tea category in China, hailed as the country's “national drink”; it is a tea product made without fermentation, using suitable new shoots of the tea plant as raw material, and made through processes such as high-temperature fixation, rolling and drying. Its finished color and the tea liquor after brewing largely retain more of the green character of the fresh tea leaves; clear liquor and green leaves are the common feature of all kinds of green tea. Because it has not undergone processes such as fermentation, green tea retains the natural substances of the fresh tea leaves

So next let us talk about the varieties of green tea

Green tea varieties include West Lake Longjing. Longjing is a traditional famous tea of the Han people and ranks first among China's ten famous teas.

Dongting Biluochun was listed as a tribute tea as early as the Tang Dynasty; the ancients also called Biluochun “gongfu tea” and “new blood tea”

Huangshan Maofeng, which belongs to the roasted green tea category, is produced in Huangshan, Anhui. The premium-grade Huangshan Maofeng can be called the finest of China's maofeng teas

Lu'an Guapian, a traditional famous tea of Chinese history and one of China's ten famous teas, abbreviated as guapian or piancha, is produced in the Dabie Mountains area of Lu'an City, Anhui Province

Lushan Yunwu: Lushan Yunwu tea has a long history, appearing in history and gaining its name because of Mount Lu, and it is even more famous throughout the world because of Mount Lu.

Taiping Houkui, a traditional famous tea of China and one of China's historically famous teas. It has the fine reputation that “Houkui is pointed at both ends, neither scattering nor curling nor rolling at the edges.”

Of course, there are also Anji Baipian, Mengding tea, Xinyang Maojian tea, Zhuyeqing and so on.

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