What kind of tea is Tieguanyin? Is Tieguanyin tea green tea?
Tieguanyin is not green tea, but belongs to the category of green tea, namely oolong tea, which is one of the top ten famous teas in China.
Tieguanyin is not only the name of tea, but also the variety name of tea tree. Tieguanyin tea is between green tea and black tea and belongs to semi-fermented tea. Tieguanyin has a unique "Guanyin rhyme", which is fragrant and elegant. After brewing, it has a natural orchid fragrance, pure taste and lasting fragrance, and has the reputation of "seven bubbles are more fragrant".
Classification of Tieguanyin varieties
According to the fermentation degree and production technology, Tieguanyin finished products can be roughly divided into three types: faint scent type, strong fragrance type and aged fragrance type.
1, fragrant Tieguanyin
Fen-flavor is light in taste, slightly sweet on the tip of the tongue, biased towards modern technology, and currently occupies the most market. The fragrant Tieguanyin is green in color, clear in soup color, rich in aroma, obvious in floral fragrance and mellow in taste. Because the new tea is cold, you can't drink too much, otherwise it will hurt your stomach and insomnia to some extent.
2. Luzhou-flavor Tieguanyin
Luzhou-flavor tea is mellow in taste, long in aroma and sweet. It is a product made by baking and reprocessing tea fried by traditional technology. Luzhou-flavor Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "fragrant, thick, mellow and sweet", with deep color, golden soup color, pure aroma and heavy taste. Compared with the fragrant type, the fragrant Tieguanyin is mild and has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach.
3. agarwood Tieguanyin
Chenxiang tea, also called old tea or cooked tea, is a kind of tea with strong aroma or fragrance made by Tieguanyin after long-term storage and repeated processing, and also belongs to semi-fermented tea. Aquilaria Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "thick, mellow, moist and soft", which is characterized by deep color, thick soup, sweet and mellow, and fragrant agarwood. Its characteristics and taste are close to Pu 'er tea, black tea and black tea, and it has a heavy historical and cultural precipitation.
Tieguanyin charcoal is a strong aroma of Tieguanyin, and it is also the last process to change the quality of finished oolong tea. It is the baking process of Tieguanyin fragrant tea after using charcoal. The time, frequency and duration of baking depend on personal taste and market.
Health care function of Tieguanyin
1, lose weight
Tieguanyin can lose weight. Many people feel uncomfortable after eating greasy food. Drinking Tieguanyin can lower blood lipid and cholesterol, and help to lose weight.
2. Anti-aging
Tea polyphenols, the effective component of Tieguanyin, can not only improve the function of lipolytic enzyme, but also promote the metabolic activity of neutral lipase in tissues. Therefore, drinking Tieguanyin can improve the body shape of obese people, effectively reduce the subcutaneous fat and waist circumference of obese people, and thus lose weight.
3. Prevention and treatment of dental caries
Fluoride in Tieguanyin tea can easily combine with calcium in teeth, forming a layer of calcium fluoride on the surface of teeth, which plays a role in preventing acid and caries. It can be seen that drinking Tieguanyin has a preventive effect on people without dental caries and a therapeutic effect on people with dental caries.
Step 4 sterilize and stop dysentery
Tieguanyin has been effective in treating dysentery and neck pain in Anxi for a long time. Many ancient medical books have recorded the operation of tea in treating bacillary dysentery, red dysentery, white dysentery, acute enteritis and acute gastritis. Tieguanyin can sterilize and stop dysentery. First of all, after tea polyphenols enter the gastrointestinal tract, it can destroy the intestinal tract seeking help, coagulate the protein in the intestinal tract and kill the bacteria immediately, so it can be used to treat enteritis.
5, clearing heat and reducing fire
Drinking Tieguanyin can moisten the mouth, produce fluid to quench thirst, and also clear away heat and reduce fire. According to reports, drinking a cup of hot tea can make people sweat to cool off the heat, which is 50 times that of this cup of tea.
To sum up, Tieguanyin is a variety of oolong tea with good taste and good health care effect. This is a green and healthy tea. If you drink it regularly, it will be good for your health.