China is a big tea-producing country, but also a big tea-drinking country, whether you drink tea or not, life is inevitable and tea to deal with.This 18 tea knowledge, perhaps can solve your eighty percent of the doubts.
What is tea?
Tea, a healthy beverage, belongs to the category of food.
Tea contains a variety of beneficial ingredients, long-term reasonable drinking, is conducive to good health, but can not replace water, not to mention as medicine.
The international status of tea
Tea is one of the world’s top three non-alcoholic beverages, along with cocoa and coffee.
What is the difference between foreigners drinking tea and us?
Most foreigners drink black tea, and black broken tea.
Most Chinese people drink green tea.
According to the China Tea Distribution Association, in 2021, out of China’s 312 billion yuan of tea consumption, green tea accounted for 63.9%, black tea accounted for 16.2%, black tea accounted for 8.3%, oolong tea accounted for 8.3%, white tea accounted for 2.9%, and yellow tea accounted for 0.4%.
How is tea categorized?
Tea leaves, named by color, are classified by process.
Green tea, clear soup and green leaves, unfermented. Anji white tea is green tea, its tea tree is albino variety, buds and leaves are not very green, white.
Yellow tea, yellow soup and yellow leaves, lightly fermented, similar to green tea, with a smothered yellow process. Junshan silver needle is yellow tea.
Black tea, soup color red, fully fermented. The world’s first black tea is Zhengshan Xiaojiao, produced in Wuyishan Tongmuguan. The English name of black tea is Black tea.
Oolong tea, also called green tea, semi-fermented. Although Tieguanyin is green in color, it is oolong tea. Dahongpao is also.
White tea, slightly fermented. Native to Fujian, it comes in four grades, White Hair Silver Needle, White Peony, Gong Mei and Shou Mei. White tea from other places developed later and the standard has not yet been clarified.
Black tea, black in color, post-fermented. Pu-erh ripe tea belongs to black tea, and newly made Pu-erh raw tea, which has not yet been transformed, is closer to green tea.
In addition, there are reprocessed teas, such as various kinds of flower tea; there are also non-tea teas, such as bittersweet tea, mulberry leaf tea, flower and herb tea, etc., which are made from the leaves of plants other than the tea tree.
Tea has six categories, tea tree is also divided into six categories?
Such as black tea tree and green tea tree?
No distinction.
According to the process, the fresh leaves of any tea tree can be made into the six categories of tea, but because of the different proportions of substances contained in the fresh leaves of different tea trees, they are suitable for making different kinds of tea.
The main sources of tea flavor
Tea polyphenols: bitter and astringent, the catechins in them have antioxidant and free radical scavenging abilities.
Caffeine: bitter taste, refreshing and diuretic.
Amino acids: fresh and sweet, relaxes the nerves.
Top Ten Famous Teas
There is no official definition of the top ten famous teas, they are all ranked by the public, and there are many versions.
The following tea, have been selected as one of the top ten famous tea: West Lake Longjing, Biluochun, Xinyang Maojian, Junshan Silver Needle, Huangshan Maofeng, Wuyi Rock Tea, Keemun Red Tea, Duyun Maojian, Iron Goddess of Mercy, Liu’an Gua Pian, Lushan Yunwu Tea, Nanjing Rain Tea, Enshi Yulu, Pu’er Tea, Mengdingshan Ganluo, Yongxi Huoqing, Fujian Silver Needle.
Tea-producing province
China’s tea production in the world, the first time in 2021 production exceeded 3 million tons, the main tea-producing provinces are 19, the most northern to Shandong, the most western to Tibet, the most eastern to Taiwan, the most southern to Hainan.
The major tea-producing provinces are as follows: Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei.
Strong tea to relieve alcohol?
Drinking tea does not relieve alcohol, and drinking strong tea after drinking will aggravate the body burden.
What is the cold and warm of tea?
The cold and warm properties of tea stem from the stimulating substances contained in tea, such as tea polyphenols, caffeine content is high, it is said to be cold.
Normal tea drinking, no physical discomfort, you can not have to consider this point.
How did the ancients drink tea?
In the beginning, tea for medicinal purposes and food, and later evolved into a beverage.
In the Tang Dynasty, tea was decocted and boiled, and it was favored to add ingredients such as salt, onion, ginger, and cinnamon.
In the Song Dynasty, it was called “tea”, and Japanese matcha tea was its style.
After the Ming Dynasty, the popularity of drinking, the habit extends to the present.
Tea, is the Opium War trigger?
The widespread dissemination of this statement, from a best-selling book “tea war”.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the import of large quantities of tea caused by the outflow of British silver, the British to China’s massive output of opium, which in turn caused a massive outflow of Chinese silver.
So the Qing government imposed a ban on smoking, Britain was not willing, so the Opium War broke out.
Why spring tea?
For tea drinkers, after a whole winter of recuperation, the tea tree has accumulated a wealth of internal substances, and the taste is fresh and mellow. And spring tea in line with the psychological expectations of people in pursuit of freshness.
For tea farmers and tea merchants, spring tea production, high prices, spring tea revenue accounted for the bulk of the year.
What kind of tea set is good for tea?
Glass is suitable for green tea, purple sand pot is the most with oolong tea, gaiwan versatile, soak what tea can be.
Japanese Tea Ceremony
There are two types of Japanese tea ceremony.
One is the Matcha Ceremony, which originated in the Song Dynasty, and is generally referred to as the Matcha Ceremony, which is now basically an aesthetic program.
A sencha ceremony, originating from the brewing of tea in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese usually drink more sencha.
Japanese matcha, is it ground green tea?
Ground is not enough. Japanese Matcha, is a particularly fine tea powder; and the tea plantations have shade requirements to reduce bitterness and enhance the fresh flavor.
Is jasmine tea better with or without flowers?
For good jasmine tea, there are usually only tea leaves in the dried tea, no jasmine flowers. There are exceptions, such as Bitan Piu Xue from Sichuan.
Nowadays, more and more dried jasmine flowers are added to the tea for the sake of aesthetics.
Drinking tea can be drunk?
Tea intoxication is the result of the body’s inability to metabolize substances such as caffeine, fluoride and theophylline. Similar to alcohol intoxication, people will panic, cold sweat, dizziness, weakness, chest tightness and shortness of breath.
Drinking tea on an empty stomach, drinking strong tea, or drinking too much tea is relatively easy to cause tea intoxication.
Drinking tea normally, most people do not need to worry.
