Tea Types

Tea Types
Tea is categorised by the way it's produced and processed.   

• White Tea (Younger leaves and delicate buds) : Wilted and unoxidised.
• Yellow Tea (Made like Green tea but longer drying processing) : Unwilted and unoxidised, but allowed to yellow.
• Green Tea: Unwilted and unoxidised (or very little oxidisation).
• Oolong: Wilted, bruised, and partly oxidised.
• Black Tea: Wilted, (crushed sometimes) and fully oxidised
• Post-fermented Tea: Green tea that has been allowed to ferment/compose more than Green Tea.



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    Fact: The smaller the tea leaf the more expensive it is.

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Teas' origins and why it started there.

Teas' Origins
No one is actually sure when tea was first drunk but they think that it has been around for over 5,000 years. The first recorded drinking of tea was in China. According to a Chinese legend tea was accidentally invented by Chinese Emperor Shen Nong in 2737 B.C. who back then was a scholar, herbalist and a scientist. He believed that drinking boiled water would keep you healthy so he made all his subjects and servants boil all their water before they drank it for hygiene reasons. One summer day he was he was visiting a distant part of his country when he decided he wanted to stop and have a rest. His servants started boiling the water for the emperor and themselves when dried leaves from a camellia bush fell into the boiling water. The emperor liked this new drink because it had a very nice smell so he drank it and found it tasted really nice and was refreshing. He then said that it gave great strength to the body. This is the legend of how tea was invented but back then it was only a medicinal drink. It began to be drunk as a casual daily drink circa 300AD. Tea has had lots more history in China through the many different dynasties and was finally brought to Europe in 1600s and was brought into England in 1669.

To show you the importance of tea to the people of China and to their culture I have an example from this

website that I found; http://www.chcp.org/tea.html. On this website it says that there is a Chinese saying that names tea as one of the seven basic daily necessities the other six are fuel, rice, oil, salt, soya sauce and vinegar.

                                                                      

Emperor Shen Nong depiction

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Introduction

The subject of my blog is The Geography of Tea. I chose this subject as I like tea and I've always wanted to know how tea is made. The topics I am going to cover in my blog are..

• Where tea originated and why it started there.
• The different types of tea.
• Tea cultures in different countries around the world.
• How to make a perfect cup of tea.