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10/12/2008

Chinese Tea Info

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Chinese Tea Information and teas

tea is the second most consumed beverage after water. There must be something special about this brewed beverage. If we want to discuss a variety of teas and tea, we must first of what he really is. What is tea? Chinese tea is substantially dried and processed leaves of a single species of plant called Camellia sinensis. Strangely, herbal teas or infusions are not real, but only dried flowers and / or plants

Although all teas come from a single species, there are three varieties.

China -. small leaves and usually grows at altitudes

India (Assam or) -. larger leaves and grows in low altitude>

hybrid – a kind of in-between the Chinese and Indians.

At first I talked about the transformation of camellia leaves. There are four methods of processing and each produces a different kind of Chinese tea. The four main types are: *

White Tea

* Green tea

* Black tea

* Oolong Tea

A tea for all:

What is Oolong Tea?

Oolong tea is nothing more than the leaves of Camellia sinensis, which have been processed in any way. It is one of four types of tea (white, green, oolong and black).

Oolong teas are to handle the most difficult of the four types of tea. The best way to describe oolong tea is that they are somewhere between green tea and black. That is because they are only partially oxidized during processing.
What is the processing of tea?

Processing tea is generally regarded as the art of tea. This is where many of the subtleties in taste, body and general character can be created.

In its simplest form, it takes the raw green leaves and deciding whether and how much oxidation (or fermentation) should take prior to drying.

Tea leaves have enzymes in their veins. If the leaf is broken, smashed, crushed or enzymes to oxygen, suspended from the oxidation. The level of oxidation is exposed depends on the amount of enzymes are and how long
treatment of oolong tea.

processing oolong tea requires only partial oxidation of the leaves. After the leaves are picked, withered, they are ready for about 8 to 24 hours. This allows more water evaporates.

the leaves are then thrown into baskets to bruise the leaf edges. This causes oxidation of bruising the leaves in part because only some of the enzymes are exposed to air.

After steaming the leaves to neutralize the enzymes and stop any oxidation. Oolong tea, different degrees of oxidation. Some are closer to black teas, and some are more green.

This is followed rather than a final drying. From there, sorted, graded and packed.

02/12/2008

The Chinese Tea Culture

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Who were Chinese discovered tea

discover the first Chinese tea

In the early 17th Century the Dutch East India Company introduced Chinese tea for the first time in Europe. From the mid-17th Century, tea was a ritual standard of British aristocracy. It is interesting that the two different pronunciations for “tea” in the most common languages, the word from the Chinese-Cha and T-are borrowed from different dialects of Chinese.
Chinese people have enjoyed tea for over 4,000 years. Legend has it that Yan Sun, one of three leaders in ancient times, tasted all kinds of herbs to find medical cures. One day when he spoke of herbs, which had swallowed was a drop of water from a tea-tree poison flowed into his mouth and he was saved. For years, tea has been used medicinally. During the Zhou Dynasty of the West, tea was a religious offering. During the period of spring and fall, people ate fresh tea leaves as a vegetable. With the popularization of Buddhism of the Three Kingdoms Dynasty of North and South, cooling effect of tea is a favorite among monks in Za-Zen Meditation.
as a drink in the Tang Dynasty and flourished popular tea. An important event of the period was the completion of the traditional tea, the cornerstone of Chinese tea culture, by Lu Yu Tea Sage China. This brochure describes the rules for the various aspects of tea, taste like growth areas for trees, tea products and skills for processing tea, tea, the history of Chinese tea and citations Documents Other, tea comments from various locations, and advice on the product times this tea must be complete and if certain goods may be omitted. is
How Chinese Tea

proportion of tea leaves, water is also used by the type of tea leaves. The teapot with a quarter to three-quarters can be filled full with tea leaves depends mainly as curly leaves, after the process of rolling and frying. The teapot is then filled with water. Infusion begins a minute, but varies from tea to tea. The time for the following beers from the same sheets is required to be extended proportionally. Using the best kind of tea for most fermented teas is a purple clay ceramic pot. The pot size must be the size of the cups are proportioned. Ideally, the cuts have white interior, an accurate assessment of the color of the tea easier.
teas
Chinese tea can be classified into five types of teas according to the different ways in which they are processed.
green tea

Green tea is the variety that keeps the original color of the tea leaves without fermentation during processing. This category consists mainly of Longjing tea of Zhejiang Province, Maofeng Huangshan Mountains in Anhui Province and Jiangsu Biluochun product.
black tea

black tea, as “red tea” (hong cha) in China is known, the category which is fermented before cooking is a later species on the basis of green tea developed. The best brands of black tea are Qihong Anhui, Yunnan Dianhong, Suhong Jiangsu, Sichuan and Hunan Chuanhong Huhong.
oolong tea

This provides a number halfway between green and black tea produced from the fermentation of ways. It is a specialty from the provinces on the southern coast of China: Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.

23/11/2008

How To Distinguish The Different Kinds Of Chinese Tea?

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If you drink Chinese tea drinks only the smell and taste, it might not be important. However, it is very important when you drink tea for health, because green tea has the highest level of antioxidants in tea, black tea, and almost none with the level of oolong tea will between them.

Over the last five years, most laboratory studies and animal studies support that the conclusion of a benefit to the health of Chinese tea drinking water, especially in the chemoprevention of cancer and obesity, using fresh green antioxidant green tea or tea antioxidant, (-) – epigallocatechin gallate, EGCG, in short, as a test search for bioactive material. Black tea is not as effective. Although epidemiological evidence of the benefits of eating high-antioxidant green tea for cancer prevention, the data on black tea and oolong tea drinker not favorable benefits of drinking tea for this purpose.

There are three main types of  Chinese tea / strong, namely green tea, black tea and oolong

In the old days, the fresh leaves were restricted from the tea tree harvested, stirring journey into hot water of the ocean stirred cooked by hot, humid weather was a high quality “Pekoe tea, green tea probably in a half-black, with its characteristic bitter taste changed in response to oxidative degradation and, when the ship arrived in Holland. It is not surprising that some Europeans sugar and milk set in the bitter tea from China.

oolong tea , which has deliberately oxidized short (half-black tea) and fully oxidized black tea introduced to farmers in the South has often hungry as a beverage calories and keep foreign exports, in 1650 AD as the crisis of society in China repeated famines resulted in poor farmers quickly learned that they should avoid drinking tea Green is an irritant to emptystomach and began to half degraded oolong tea or black tea instead of completely oxidized to the body tosurvive sorely missed drinking conserve fat.

The effect of green tea fat-depleting discovered onlyrecently in animal experiments. TheTerms oolong tea and black tea (red tea in Chinese) were in the Chinese vocabulary in the mid 1600′s AD The custom of drinking tea WESTERN addition of imported sugar and milk in black tea was initiated by the British in 1657 AD The Japanese and Chinese tea never drinkers or milk sugar in their tea set green.

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