Loose leaf tea can be dried by sun-drying or oven-drying.
The use of tea began with chewing the fresh leaves of the tea plant, and later developed into boiling the fresh leaves into a soup-like drink; in both cases the fresh leaves of the tea plant were used directly. Before the Tang Dynasty, tea processing was relatively simple: the freshly picked leaves were sun-dried or oven-dried and then stored away. This was the budding stage of the sun-dried green tea process.
The use of tea began with chewing the fresh leaves of the tea plant, and later developed into boiling the fresh leaves into a soup-like drink; in both cases the fresh leaves of the tea plant were used directly.
Before the Tang Dynasty, tea processing was relatively simple: the freshly picked leaves were sun-dried or oven-dried and then stored away. This was the budding stage of the sun-dried green tea process.