Tea has a long history in China, and its hometown is China. It and silk are both important inventions made by the working people in China for mankind all over the world. As early as more than 5,000 years ago, it was said that when Shennong, the distant ancestor of the Chinese nation, was in power, he was unfortunately infected with 72 kinds of viruses in order to find herbs for treating diseases. He was miserable and finally found tea to cure the virus. Since then, people have known that tea can cure diseases and has medicinal functions. Later, in the long-term production and life, people gradually found that boiling tea has a strong thirst quenching effect. As a result, people in China began to have a special liking for tea, and the tea culture in China was born.

Speaking of tea in China, it's really a university question. First of all, let's learn about the classification of tea. Generally speaking, tea is divided into: one is basic tea and the other is reprocessed tea. Basic teas include green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and black tea. Processed tea includes scented tea, pressed tea, fruity tea and health tea.

These two kinds of tea have different characteristics. For example, the basic feature of green tea is its green leaves and clear soup, and its varieties mainly include Longjing in Hangzhou, Biluochun in Suzhou, clouds in Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi, melon slices in Lu 'an, Anhui, and Xinyang Maojian in Henan.

The basic feature of black tea is red leaves and red soup. The main varieties are Anhui Qimen black tea, Yunnan Dianhong and Jiangxi Ninghong.

Oolong tea belongs to semi-fermented tea, and its varieties mainly include Wuyishan Rock Tea in Fujian, Tieguanyin Tea in Anxi and Frozen Top Oolong Tea in Taiwan Province Province.

White tea is a kind of micro-fermented tea, which is mainly produced in Fujian. Black tea has a long fermentation time and dark leaves, so it is called black tea and can be drunk directly.

The scented tea in reprocessed tea is generally made by green tea after absorbing the floral fragrance, which is popular in northern China. The main varieties are jasmine tea, white orchid tea and osmanthus tea.

Compressed tea refers to brick tea, Pu 'er tea, etc., which are processed and steamed into a certain shape, so it is easy to store and transport, and is generally sold to China's frontier areas. In ancient China, tea sold to the frontier was monopolized by the imperial court. Whether to sell tea to frontier minority areas is a means for the central government to control the frontier. At that time, tea sold to the frontier was mainly brick tea.

Fruit tea and health tea were invented late. Fruit-flavored tea is a kind of tea beverage made by adding fruit juice in production, such as lemon tea and orange juice tea. Health Chaze adds Chinese herbal medicines to tea, which enhances the efficacy of tea in preventing and treating diseases.

From the time of picking tea, we can also divide tea into spring tea and summer and autumn tea. Spring tea, as its name implies, is the tea picked in the sky. After a winter's cultivation, the tea tree contains a variety of effective substances, so it has a strong aroma, fresh taste and good tea quality. Summer tea tastes bitter than spring tea because of its high temperature and strong photosynthesis in summer. Autumn tea tastes weak because the nutrients are obviously reduced after two seasons of picking. Generally speaking, especially green tea, spring tea is better.

Besides quenching thirst, tea has a special health care function for human body. Generally speaking, there are five main aspects: first, exciting functions. There is a substance called caffeine in making tea, which can excite people's central nervous system, help people cheer up, improve their thinking, eliminate fatigue and improve work efficiency. Second, diuretic function, often drinking tea water can treat diseases such as edema and acute hepatitis. Third, prevent arteriosclerosis Because vitamin C and other substances in tea have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to prevent arteriosclerosis, people who drink tea regularly have a lower incidence of hypertension and heart disease. Fourth, antibacterial function, there is a substance in tea that can coagulate bacterial protein and kill bacteria. Therefore, the skin is sore and suppurated, and the skin is broken by trauma. Washing with strong tea can diminish inflammation and sterilize. Oral inflammation and sore throat, treated with tea, also have certain effect. Fifth, the function of losing weight. Many compounds in tea can regulate fat metabolism, especially oolong tea has a good decomposition effect on protein and fat, which can reduce cholesterol and blood lipid, so there are many slimming teas on the market now.

Besides health care function, tea has many wonderful uses in daily life. If the tea can remove the fishy smell, put the fish in warm tea for 5- 10 minutes, and the fish will be less fishy. The soaked tea leaves can also be used as tea side pillows after drying, which smells delicious and is very comfortable when sleeping. Tea can also be used in cook the meat. For example, putting a tea bag in beef not only rots quickly, but also tastes delicious.

Tea is not only practical. On the contrary, it is also very cultured. In the long process of making tea, tea culture has really become an art after more than two thousand years of historical evolution. Tea-making technology, tea set, tea-making process, and even the water used to make tea have a lot of special attention. For example, there are many ways to make tea, tea sets have many shapes, and there are many ways to make tea, such as frying, boiling, lighting and brewing. Speaking of it, the water used for making tea is not common, but in ancient times, even water was divided into three or six grades. Emperor Qianlong loved tea very much. He visited Jiangnan six times and tasted the famous local tea everywhere. He brought his own measuring instrument to measure the weight and quality of water. He paid great attention to the quality of tea and put forward that "fresh water is more expensive". He thought it was on the lotus leaf. As for the taste of water, I can tell another short story. In episode 4 1 of A Dream of Red Mansions, Miaoyu made tea for Lin Daiyu, Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai. Because Lin Daiyu couldn't tell whether the water for making tea was rain or snow, Miaoyu smiled. Miaoyu said: this water was collected from plum blossoms five years ago and buried in an urn for making tea. Picking snow from plum blossoms is definitely more difficult than picking dew from lotus leaves, which shows how much the ancients paid attention to the taste of water.

Tea culture is an important part of China traditional culture. The ancients integrated their life enjoyment, happiness experience and artistic taste into this small world. This is a rich historical and cultural heritage, which we should continue to carry forward. Fortunately, busy modern people have also learned to find a little spiritual comfort from tea tasting. Nowadays, teahouses are quietly emerging in modern cities with various Internet cafes and bars. It has become one of the leisure fashions to make friends with tea, to make friends with tea, and to make peace in the middle of trouble. Perhaps this is the modern continuation of tea culture in China, and perhaps this is the modern tea culture in China.

It is generally believed that drinking tea can keep you healthy. Chinese medicine believes that tea has different tea properties, such as cold, warm and bitter, and has different effects on human body. In order to obtain better health care effect, people should choose different varieties according to the performance and efficacy of tea in spring, summer, autumn and winter, which is beneficial to health.

Drink scented tea in spring

When spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and the human body, like nature, is in a relaxed state. At this time, it is advisable to drink scented tea such as jasmine and osmanthus. Scented tea is warm. Drinking scented tea in spring can radiate the cold accumulated in the human body in the long winter and promote the hair growth of the human body. Scented tea is rich in fragrance, fragrant but not floating, refreshing but not turbid, which makes people feel refreshed, eliminates spring sleepiness and improves human functional efficiency.

Drinking green tea in summer

In summer, the sun is scorching, the heat is steaming, people sweat a lot and consume a lot of body fluids. At this time, you should drink green tea such as Longjing, Mao Feng and Biluochun. Green tea tastes slightly bitter and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, detoxicating, reducing dryness and quenching thirst, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and strengthening the heart and refreshing. Green tea soup with green leaves is fresh and refreshing, sweet and bitter, and rich in vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other nutrients. Drinking it not only has the effect of relieving summer heat, but also increases nutrition.

Drink green tea in autumn

Dry weather in autumn often makes people thirsty. You should drink green tea such as oolong tea and Tieguanyin tea. Green tea is mild in nature, between black tea and green tea, neither too hot nor too cold, suitable for autumn climate. Regular drinking can moisturize the skin and benefit the lungs, promote fluid production and moisten the throat, effectively remove residual heat in the body and restore body fluids, which is of great benefit to autumn health care. Green tea soup is golden in color, fat and even in appearance, tightly curled, green in color, rich in substances and refreshing and sweet in taste.

Drink black tea in winter

In winter, the temperature is low, the cold is heavy, the physiological function of human body declines, the yang is getting weaker, and the requirements for energy and nutrition are higher. The way of keeping in good health is more important than keeping out cold and keeping warm and improving disease resistance. At this time, you should drink black tea such as Qi Hong and Dianhong, and black tea such as Pu 'er and Liubao tea. Black tea is sweet and rich in protein. Drinking it in winter can nourish the body, nourish the yang, generate heat and warm the abdomen, thus enhancing the adaptability of the human body to the winter climate.

Black tea is also rich in protein, which can strengthen the body's supplement. Dry black tea is black, leaves are red after soaking, and soup is red. Full-bodied and dry, you can add milk and sugar, and the fragrance remains unchanged. In addition, in winter, people's appetite increases, eating greasy food increases, drinking black tea can also get rid of greasy, stimulate appetite, help to keep healthy, and make the human body better adapt to changes in the natural environment. Black tea has almost the effect of black tea.

Chinese medicine believes that the tea you drink in spring, summer, autumn and winter should be different. That is, according to the nature and taste of various teas, drinking black tea in different seasons can warm the stomach, wake up and help digestion. Drinking warm black tea is most suitable in cold winter. Green tea tastes bitter and cold. Drinking in winter is easy to cause stomach cold and may also affect appetite. When summer is hot, drinking green tea can just take its bitter and cold nature, relieve summer heat and quench thirst.

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1, eliminating reactive oxygen species harmful to beauty and health;

2. Drinking 1 L oolong tea every day can improve skin allergy;

3, drinking oolong tea can lose weight:

4. Anti-tumor and anti-aging effects

The efficacy of scented tea

Thistle flower-not suitable for pregnancy, has the effects of detumescence, pain relief, wound healing, clearing away heat, regulating qi and blood and relieving fatigue.

Citron-strong liver, digestion, nausea, leucorrhea, weakness of limbs.

Orange orange-relieves stress, helps digestion, removes oil, has obvious whitening effect and increases cell vitality.

Mulan-not suitable for pregnant women who have the functions of regulating spleen and stomach, relieving menstrual pain and eliminating phlegm and headache.

Lotus leaf-cool, reduce fire, eliminate body fat and achieve weight loss effect.

Sage-has the effects of strengthening brain, enhancing memory, preventing and treating apoplexy and paralysis, stimulating appetite, resisting allergy, effectively whitening teeth and preventing liver diseases.

Tam- inhibiting bronchitis, invigorating stomach and regulating intestine

Peony-beauty beauty has the effects of lowering blood pressure, nourishing liver, stopping menstrual pain, promoting blood circulation and relieving female anemia.

One-leaf tea-Qinggan cholagogic, hypolipidemic and hypoglycemic, is suitable for diabetic patients.

Hyssop-Treat asthma and mucositis, relieve sore throat, and treat respiratory and digestive symptoms.

Mint-antibacterial, liver-nourishing, stomach-invigorating, intestine-regulating, refreshing, and digestive function regulating.

Qingchang tea-a natural laxative, should not be taken by pregnant women. Has the effects of clearing intestine, relaxing bowels, reducing weight, and eliminating toxins in the body.

Smoked flowers-moistening lungs, caring skin, caring hair, relaxing mood, eliminating tension and eye fatigue.

Eupatorium odoratum-Helps sleep, relieves stress and improves rough skin.

Bodhi-Relieve joint pain, muscle aches, lose weight, lose sleep, calm down, purify blood vessels, prevent arteriosclerosis and relieve anxiety.

Sunflower-strengthening liver, reducing fire, treating headache, eye fatigue and improving eyesight.

Peony flower-regulating blood, activating cells, calming, clearing blood, night sweats and menstrual disorders

Cortex Moutan-used for clearing away heat and treating physiological pain, dry mouth and yellow urine.

Jasmine-regulating hormone secretion, relieving tension, effectively losing weight, beautifying and losing weight, treating abdominal pain and moistening intestines.

Abelmoschus manihot-clearing lung, treating cold, strengthening trachea, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and nasal allergy.

Violet-Eliminate fatigue, help wound heal, treat halitosis, clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve hangover, catch cold, and regulate qi and blood.

Lavender-skin care, detumescence, soothing mood, tightening skin and promoting cell regeneration.

Lemon fruit-effectively decomposes fat, and making tea or lemon vinegar is very helpful to lose weight.

Lemon grass-calming and helping digestion

Calendula-Treat skin allergy, clear away heat and toxic materials, and reduce liver fire.

Jinhua Fei-improving eyesight, dizziness, constipation, eliminating yellow phlegm, treating headache, cold, refreshing and antipyretic.

Kumquat fruit-invigorating stomach, relieving abdominal pain, helping digestion, sore throat and asthma

Heather-relieving fatigue, treating diabetes, regulating qi and blood, nourishing liver and dredging collaterals.

Fennel-warm dantian, rheumatic pain, relieving foot swelling, treating infertility, and treating bladder weakness.

Mint-calming, antipyretic, promoting blood circulation, eliminating phlegm, invigorating stomach, and treating headache and sore throat.

Winter jasmine-used for treating headache, toothache, regulating qi and blood, allergic rhinitis, arthritis, edema, clearing away lung heat and nourishing stomach.

Lady Enforcers-chronic gastroenteritis, tracheal diseases, strengthening the stomach, treating gastric ulcer, large lymph glands.

Apple blossom-beauty, abdominal pain, blood stasis, weight loss, stomach strengthening, digestion aid

Apple meat is appetizing, hangover-relieving, thirst-quenching, and beautifying.

Chinese rose-not suitable for pregnant women, has the effects of promoting blood circulation, treating traumatic injury, aching bones and muscles, regulating menstruation and nourishing liver.

Gui Xiang-cold-dispelling, heart-strengthening, refreshing, forbidden for pregnant women.

Mume-quenches thirst, detoxifies, stimulates appetite, relieves depression, and effectively treats acne.

Xuelian-? #092; Invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation, strengthening yang, strengthening body and invigorating qi.

Farfarfara- has obvious curative effect on asthma and cough, and can clear bone pain.

Sunflower-clearing lung heat, treating cold, qi and blood weakness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and treating nasal allergy.

Longan Tong-tonify blood, nourish blood, soothe the nerves, strengthen the stomach, strengthen the heart and make the urine turbid.

Mulberry-eliminate beriberi edema, black hair, promote blood circulation, nourish liver and kidney.

Honeysuckle-antipyretic, detoxifying, dry mouth, nourishing skin and eliminating acne

Verbena-forbidden for pregnant women, has the effects of treating migraine, clearing intestine, slimming and promoting blood circulation.

Rosemary-cooking spice, digestive aid, qi, relieving abdominal pain

Sore grass-cure muscle soreness, clear blood and regulate blood.

Delphinium-strengthening yang and tonifying kidney, dredging capillaries, enhancing memory, helping sleep and increasing black hair.

Stevia leaf-suitable for diabetics and dieters, it is the best sugar substitute.

Rose hips-slimming, beautifying, invigorating stomach, treating abdominal pain, removing blood stasis and helping digestion.

Imperial leaves-strengthening yang, tonifying kidney and enhancing memory.

Angelica keiskei-it can treat nocturnal emission, strengthen yang, activate bones and muscles, tonify kidney and strengthen brain.

Dragon tongue leaf-treating diabetes, nourishing liver and promoting blood circulation, lowering blood sugar and blood lipid, and relieving fatigue.

Thyme-Eliminate flatulence, increase energy and treat herpes zoster.

Cornflower-anti-inflammatory, beauty, hair care, mild antibiotics, sedative effect.

Fruit helps digestion and relieves rheumatic pain.

Juniper berry-a bactericide for urinary system, which can prevent cystitis and urinary tract infection, resist uric acid and relieve joint pain.

Pomegranate-suitable for patients to drink, treat bladder weakness and reduce uric acid and blood sugar.

Purple rose-regulating qi and blood, relieving fatigue, treating endocrine disorders, backache and wound healing.

Roman chamomile-used to treat headache, migraine, cold and constipation, relieve tension and eye fatigue, preserve health and moisten lungs.

European chamomile-treating constipation, moistening lung, keeping in good health, dizziness, cold, relieving tension and eye fatigue.

Jin Guihua-beauty beauty, moisten the intestines to relieve constipation and eliminate toxins in the body.

Korean ginseng flower-clearing liver and detoxicating, reducing fire, treating skin itching and allergies.

Delphinium flower-an excellent health tea with the functions of relieving hemorrhoids, enhancing cardiac circulatory system, astringing and promoting blood circulation.

Pink roses-promoting blood circulation, calming nerves, relaxing bowels, nourishing stomach, strengthening liver, caring skin, regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation.

Red roses-eliminate fatigue, effectively heal wounds, secrete disorders, backache, and regulate qi and blood.

Persian sun chrysanthemum-improving eyesight, clearing away heat, treating headache, cold, toxic sore, tension and eye fatigue.

Juniper-diuretic, leucorrhea removal, edema and arthritis elimination, kidney tonifying, sperm fixation, and muscle soreness relief.

Chrysanthemum indicum-clear gallbladder heat, clear liver and improve eyesight, treat headache, cold and furuncle.

White Chrysanthemum in Taiwan Province Province-Clearing liver and improving eyesight, treating headache, cold, furuncle and moistening lung qi.

The first cream of grape red leaves-can reduce muscle soreness and joint pain.

According to your own situation. Pay attention to drinking green tea in summer, because green tea can clear fire and reduce fire.

You can usually drink black tea in winter, because black tea has the function of warming your stomach.

Some herbal teas can be drunk according to their own needs and different uses, such as roses and roselle for beauty, cassia seed for eyesight, and chrysanthemum for clearing lung and moistening throat. ...

Green tea is bitter and makes people feel cold, but it is not suitable for people with cold hands and feet. These people prefer black tea because it is warm and has the effect of dispelling cold and warming stomach.

Green tea contains all kinds of catechins, and most of the catechins in black tea have been oxidized to theaflavins and thearubigins. Oolong tea is between black tea and green tea, and the older brick tea contains more tea polysaccharides. This is beneficial to the treatment of diabetes. Pu 'er tea contains some special ingredients transformed from microorganisms, which are cold in nature, but have little stimulation to the stomach and intestines.

Climate: Drink green tea dry and black tea cold.

In a hot and dry climate, people need to be cool and drink green tea, which can alleviate the heat in summer and make up for the shortage of some essential nutrients produced by vegetables.

In the northern latitude, the climate is cold, and people need warmth to drive away the cold. Black tea is warm, and hot drinking black tea or oolong tea can relieve depression, drive away cold and warm the body.

Season: drink Longjing in summer and oolong tea in winter.

Choose to drink green tea in hot summer. Because green tea is cool, drinking a cup of cool green tea or white tea can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, which is very comfortable.

It's cold in winter. Drinking a cup of warm black tea or a cup of oolong tea with high fermentation can give people a feeling of warm stomach.

Choose tea according to people's physical condition and physiological condition.

Although tea is a health drink, people have different habits because of their different constitutions. Therefore, what kind of tea is more suitable for everyone varies from person to person. As long as you don't drink too much, what kind of tea you drink can depend on your preferences.

Children and women can drink high-grade scented tea and green tea. Old people should drink black tea. Obese people and hypertensive patients can drink more oolong tea and Pu 'er tea to reduce cholesterol and blood lipids in the blood, while diabetics can drink more oolong tea and pressed tea. Patients with neurasthenia should not drink more tea at night. It is best not to drink tea, so as not to cause insomnia.

Those who like light taste can choose high-grade roasted green tea and famous tea. Usually, for those who want strong tea flavor, it is better to choose fried green tea. However, people with cold spleen and stomach and old and weak should not drink too much tea.

In frontier areas such as Tibet and Inner Mongolia, the meat and milk of cattle, horses and sheep have been staple foods for many years, and fresh vegetables are scarce. "I'd rather not eat for three days than drink tea for one day." Often drink black tea (brick tea) to relieve greasy.