Drinking tea is an indispensable part of people's daily life. Lin Yutang, a wise man in the literary world, once said that China people love to drink tea, drink tea at home, have meetings, fight and reason, drink tea before breakfast and drink tea after lunch. With the improvement of people's quality of life, people pay more and more attention to tea. For example, what kind of tea is good, who drinks what kind of tea, what kind of tea is the best, and what is the standard of drinking tea, etc., are often asked. The above questions are difficult to answer. This is because China is the hometown of tea, with a wide variety. There are green tea, yellow tea, white tea, black tea, green tea, black tea, reprocessed scented tea and extracted tea, all of which have their own flavors and characteristics.

Green tea, which originated in China, has a complete variety and is also the most famous and abundant tea. West Lake Longjing, Lushan Wu Yun, Dongting Biluochun, Huangshan Mao Feng, Taiping Monkey Kui, Xinyang Maojian, Lu 'an Guapian, Laozhu Dafang and other famous historical and traditional teas are well known. Green tea has good color, fragrance and shape, and has high artistic appreciation value. Endoplasmic aroma is fresh and high, with fine fragrance, tender fragrance, faint fragrance, fruity fragrance, chestnut fragrance and so on. , with fresh and rich astringency, refreshing aftertaste and sweet taste. For example, Longjing, the lion peak, has many tender leaves, flat and straight as a bowl nail, even and smooth, with few hidden buds, and a slightly yellowish green color (commonly known as "brown rice color"). The aroma is fresh and tender; Lofty and lasting, the soup is green, clear and transparent, and the taste is sweet and mellow; The aftertaste is fresh olive, and the leaves are tender and even. It is famous for its green color, fragrant smell, sweet taste and beautiful shape, and is known as "national tea". Green tea does not ferment, has natural color, fragrance and taste, and is high in vitamin C and tea polyphenols. It has antibacterial, hypertension prevention, blood lipid lowering, anticancer, anti-radiation and anti-aging effects.

Black tea is a kind of fermented tea. Through the special technology of black tea, it has formed unique quality characteristics of color, fragrance and taste. China has different colors, such as Qi Hong, Dianhong, Ninghong, Yihuang, Hong Min and Hong Hu, each with its own characteristics. The most famous are "Qi Hong", one of the world's three high-aroma black teas, and "Dianhong" produced in Yunnan. "Qi Hong" is black and smooth in color, rich and long in inherent aroma, with unique honey-like aroma and orchid aroma. Known as "Qimenxiang", it enjoys a high reputation in the international market. Dianhong is a kind of big leaf Kung Fu black tea. Its strips are fat and heavy, covered with golden buds and fragrant with flowers and fruits. Black tea is rich in caffeine, which has the functions of refreshing and diuresis, helping gastrointestinal digestion, stimulating appetite, eliminating edema, strengthening myocardium and preventing radiation-induced skin cancer. Black tea is mild and less irritating. Adding milk and sugar to tea in winter can nourish the stomach. In summer, instant black tea can be mixed with fruit juice to make iced black tea with different flavors.

Green tea (commonly known as oolong tea) is a semi-fermented tea, which has the advantages of both red and green tea. It has both the color fragrance of black tea and the refreshing and exciting taste of green tea, but it is not as bitter as green tea. Wuyi rock tea, northern Fujian green tea, has fat tea strips and tightly curled leaves, commonly known as "dragonfly head", with frog skin-like sand white spots on the leaves, commonly known as "toad back"; The color is green, brown and bright, commonly known as "Bao Guang"; Red dot; The aroma of tea soup is stronger, deeper and more lasting than that of orchids; The taste is mellow and clear, and the body fluid is sweet, although it is thick and bitter; Known as "rock bone flower", commonly known as "rock rhyme". Anxi Tieguanyin, Minnan green tea, the production process is rigorous and exquisite. Its quality is curly, strong and heavy, showing the head shape of a green-bellied dragonfly; The color is fresh and moist, the sand is green, the red spots are bright, the leaves are frosty, and its aroma is like an empty valley and a secluded orchid, lofty and meaningful, wonderful and fresh; The soup is rich and clear in color, mellow and sweet in taste, sweet in honey juice and endless in aftertaste. The varieties of green tea, such as James J.S.Wong, Hairy Crab, Ren Tao, Meizhan and Narcissus, all have their own unique floral or fruity fragrance, commonly known as "lasting appeal", and the quality of green tea is the best. Green tea can also promote human metabolism and fat oxidation.

White tea is unique to China and belongs to light fermented tea. The production method of white tea is very unique, without frying or kneading. The appearance of finished tea is white and white, so it is called "white tea". It is produced in Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and Jianyang counties in Fujian, and there is a small amount of production in Taiwan Province Province. Its quality characteristics are: dry tea is covered with white hairs, with heavy aroma, obvious taste, light soup color and fresh and mellow taste, which is very simple and elegant. The creation of white tea is white silver needles, whose buds are nearly inch long, covered with white hair and silver luster. The endoplasmic aroma is fresh and strong, the taste is fresh and sweet, and the soup is bright and elegant apricot yellow. Bai Mudan is one of the flower-shaped white teas, named after its silvery white heart with green leaves and drooping back. It looks like a flower. The leaves are green and the back is white, which is called blue sky and white land. Veins turn red during withering and are sandwiched between green leaves and white hairs, so they are called "wrapped in red". Very fragrant, mellow taste. White tea does not undergo high-temperature enzyme fixation and intense kneading, but only undergoes moderate natural oxidation, forming a unique health care function. White tea is cool, has the effects of invigorating stomach, refreshing, eliminating dampness and reducing fever, and has the functions of sterilization, antioxidation, anti-aging and inhibiting skin cancer.

Yellow tea is a specialty of our country, and it was tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty, such as Sichuan Mengding Yellow Bud and Hunan Junshan Silver Needle. The basic quality characteristics of yellow tea are: yellow color, yellow soup color, yellow leaf bottom and mellow aroma. The most famous Junshan silver needle, a treasure in tea, is produced on an island in Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. Its appearance is plump, covered with white hair, golden in color and shining with silver, so it is called "gold inlaid with jade". Its soup is apricot yellow, which is fresh and sweet in Qing Xiang. After brewing, its bud head becomes a spectacle in the embrace of three ups and downs, which is not only for drinking, but also for people to watch Mengding yellow bud, which is also a precious variety of yellow tea. "The Yangtze River is in the heart, and Mengding Mountain serves tea" has been talked about by people since ancient times, which shows that Mengding tea is extraordinary. The top yellow bud is tender and smooth, golden in color, blue in soup color, with ripe chestnuts in the fresh fragrance. Yellow tea is rich in tea polyphenols, amino acids, soluble sugars, vitamins and other rich nutrients, which has obvious effects on the prevention and treatment of esophageal cancer. Yellow tea leaves retain more than 85% natural substances, which has special effects of prevention, anti-cancer, anti-inflammation and sterilization.

Black tea is also a kind of tea unique to China, with many varieties and different colors. There are Hunan Xiangjian, black brick, Huazhuan and Fuzhuan teas, Hubei Blue Brick Tea, Guangxi Liubao Tea, Sichuan South Road Side Tea, West Road Side Tea and Yunnan Pu 'er Tea. It was customary to call black tea "selling tea at the same time". Black tea is an essential drink for Tibetan, Mongolian and Uygur brothers in border areas. "A day without food is better than a day without tea", which is a true portrayal of the brothers' demand for tea. Black tea The famous Pu 'er tea has many names, including Pu 'er loose tea, Pu 'er Tuo tea, round tea (wolfberry cake tea), compact tea and cake tea. Pu 'er tea refers to Pu 'er loose tea. Its quality is characterized by fat strips, orange color, rich aroma and special fragrance. Pu 'er tea has special effects such as relieving greasy, resolving phlegm, scraping intestines and stopping diarrhea.

As the saying goes, a thousand miles is different from the wind, and a hundred miles is different from the customs. China has a vast territory, different folk customs and different drinking habits in different regions. What kind of tea to drink and what kind of tea to drink depends entirely on everyone's "cognition" of tea products, drinking habits and other factors. It is better not to be limited to one kind of tea, but to be different according to age, sex, physique, working nature, living environment and seasons, such as drinking scented tea in spring, green tea in summer, scented tea in autumn and winter, oolong tea, Tieguanyin and black tea. Drink many kinds of tea, so as to appreciate the flavor of all kinds of tea and make the life content and tea affairs more colorful.