Chapter 18 【Famous Tea Introduction Dark Tea】

"Hunan Dark Tea" Hunan black tea is originally produced in Anhua. It was first produced in the bracts on the bank of the Zijiang River, and then conveyed to Yashengping, Huangshengping, Sezhou, Jiangnan, Xiaoyan and other places along the Zijiang River. For quality, Gaojiaxi and Majia are the most famous.In the past, Hunan black tea production was concentrated in Anhua, but now the production area has expanded to Taojiang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Ningxiang, Yiyang and Linxiang. Heizhi tea is divided into four grades, high-grade tea is more tender, and low-grade tea is thicker and older.The first-grade tea is tightly rolled, round and straight, the leaves are tender, and the color is black and lustrous.The second-grade tea is still tight, and the color is dark brown and still moist.The third-grade tea is not tight, showing loach autumn, and the color is pure, showing bamboo leaf green with purple oil color or willow green color.The fourth-grade tea is wide, thick and old, with loose, flat and wrinkled strips, and yellowish brown in color. Ningxia and other provinces.

"Old Green Tea" Old green tea is mainly produced in Puzhe, Xianning, Tongshan, Chongyang, Tongcheng and other counties in Xianning, Hubei Province, and old green tea is also produced in Linxiang County, Hunan Province. The old green tea used to press green brick tea is divided into two types: noodle tea and inside tea. The noodle tea is finer and the morning tea is more extensive.Old green tea is generally divided into three grades, and the standards for picking fresh leaves are usually divided according to the skin color of the stem.First-grade tea (wine noodle tea) has mainly green stalks, with slightly red stalks at the base.The second-grade tea (two-mian tea) is mainly red stems, with a little green stems on the top.The third-grade tea (li tea) is the raw red stalk of the year without hemp stalk.

According to the quality requirements of old green tea, the leaves of the first-grade tea (sprinkled noodles) are in strips, mainly red stalks, and the leaves are dark green and yellowish.The third-grade tea (li tea) has wrinkled leaves, red stalks, dark green leaves with flowers, and the tea stalks are based on the new shoots of the year. "Liubao Loose Tea" Bao loose tea is famous because it was originally produced in Dabao Township, Cangwu County, Guangxi. It has a production history of more than 200 years.Now the Liubao loose tea production area is relatively expanded, distributed in the two cliffs of Xunjiang, Yujiang, Hejiang, Liujiang and Hongshuihe, including Cangwu, Hexian, Hengxian, Gongcheng, Zhongshan, Fuchuan, Guixian, Sanjiang, Twenty to thirty counties such as Hechi and Liucheng produce Liubao loose tea.The main producing area is Wuzhou area.

The quality characteristics of Liubao tea are that the rope is long and tight, the color is dark brown and smooth, and the soup is red and thick.The aroma is mellow, the taste is mellow and refreshing, the bottom of the leaf is brown, with the smell of pine smoke and betel nut. In addition to domestic sales in Guangdong and Guangxi, Liubao loose strips are also exported to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and other places. "Puer Tea" Pu'er tea is produced in Yunnan Province in its original form, and is well-known both at home and abroad.Now, Pu'er tea is still abundant in Xishuangbanna, Simao and other places in Yunnan.

Pu-erh tea is thick and thick in appearance, dark in color or brownish red (commonly known as pig liver color), mellow in taste and sweet in taste, and has a unique aroma.Pu'er tea has always been considered as a beverage with health benefits.It is proved by domestic and foreign relevant experts' clinical trials that Pu'er tea has various functions such as lowering blood fat, losing weight, antibacterial, helping digestion, warming stomach, promoting body fluid, quenching thirst, sobering up and detoxifying.Due to the introduction, general tea has the reputation of beauty tea, slimming tea, longevity tea and slimming tea in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and industrial areas.

In addition to Yunnan Province, Guangdong Province produces a small amount of Pu'er tea. "Sichuan Side Tea" Sichuan side tea production has a long history.During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was stipulated that the side tea produced in Ya'an, Tianquan, Rongjing and other places should be exclusively sold in Kangzang, and slightly south of the road side tea.The side tea produced in Guanxian, Chongqing, Dayi and other places is exclusively sold in Songpan, Lixian and other places in northwestern Sichuan, and is called West Road side tea. Nanlubian tea is harvested in season or the mature shoots and leaves of the year, and Nanlubian tea is the raw material for pressing Kangzhu and Jinjian.

The raw materials of the fresh leaves of tea on the west side of the road are thicker and older than those on the south side of the road. The branches and leaves of tea trees in the same year or one to two years old are harvested, and they can be dried in the sun after being greened.The tea hair tea on the side of the west road is withered and yellow in color, and it is the raw material for pressing Fuwu and square bag tea.