NO.1 Tit Koon Yam Tea (Tie Gunyin Tea/ Iron Buddha Tea) ---The Best of Oolong Tea
Produced esp. in Anxi County, Fujian Province, Tit Koon Yam Tea is coloured sand green and shaped like a combination of dragonfly's head and tadpole's tail. As its name goes, this tea is heavy as iron and grace as buddha. It is featured for the ever-lasting fragrance and delicate flavor, which is endeavored as "the aroma of buddha".
Legend of Tit Koon Yan Tea
NO.2 Lungching Tea (Longjing Tea/Dragan Well Tea)---The Best Chinese Tea
Lungching is listed as NO.1 in Chinese tea, most nominated for its 4 features---green color, delicate fragrance, sweet flavor and beautiful apparance. This tea is grown in mountains near West Lake, Hangzhou, including "West Lake Lungching", "Meijiawu Lungching", "Shifeng Lungching", among which Shifeng Lungching is the best.
Legend of Lungching
NO.3 Wuyi Cliff Tea (Wuyi Yancha/ Wuyi Rock Tea)---The Most Rare Tea
Wuyi Cliff Tea is grown in 99 cliffs of Wuyi mountain. Every cliiff grows a special tea, every tea has a unique name, and every name has its typical production procedure, among which "Da hong Pao (the big red robe)", "Tie Luo Han (Iron Man)", "Shui Wugui (Water Turtle)" are famous tea name in China.
Shaped like a nail and coloured sand green, the cliff tea is featured for its "Cliff Aroma"---rich flower fragrance and fresh flavor.
Legend of Cliff Tea (Big Red Robe)
NO.4 keemun Black Tea （Qimen black Tea/ Red Tea）
Grown in Keemun County， Anhei Province，keemun Black Tea is featured for its "treasure light", meaning the glittering pitch-black coulor. The tea is tasted pure and mellow, sweet as honey and fragrant as orchid.
NO.5 Duyun Maojian Tea
Grown in Duyun County, south Guizhou Province, Duyun Maojian Tea is featured by "3 Yellow Green", which means the tea, the liqiud, and the tea leave are all yellow green. There's a poem esp. written in praise of it:
Bud fragrance and mellowness
are no worse than Lungching and Pilou chun
Drink it and feeling the pureness and freshness
making me relaxed and joyous like a celestial
No.6 Hunan Dark Tea
NO.7 Zhang Yiyuan Jasmine Tea
NO. 8 Liu'an Guapian Tea (Liu'an Seeds Slice)
Grown in Liu'an District, Anhui County, liu'an Guapian gets the name for the seeds-like apparence. This tea is featured for the even shape, uniform size, emerald green colour, sweet flavor, bright liquid and special pureness.
This tea is named after the picking time---the tea with best quality picked before Grain Rain (April 20/21) is named "Tipian", after it is called "Gupian" (Seeds Slice), the worse quality is those oicked after Plum Rains (mid June), named "Meipian"(Plum Slice)
NO.9 Tianmuhu White Tea
NO. 10: Fuding White Tea
Fuding White tea is the tea that is made from new buds and very young, very gently dried tea leaves. Because of the careful and light processing, the leaves retain all their contents of antioxidants.
Antioxidants are compounds that have been shown to have a very beneficial effect on our health. Alle teas contain a lot of antioxidants, and white tea is the tea with the highest concentration of them. The antioxidants in white tea may help prevent cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes, and may even help slow down the aging process.
White tea is grown in Asia, predominantly China, and is harvested from the same tea plant that also gives us green tea and black tea.
As the name suggests, white tea is a clear brew with a slight golden tinge, not unlike white wine. It has a mild, delicious taste.
Green tea has become popular with a lot of people, and the additional health benefits and superb taste that white tea can provide are sure to make it the next "hot" thing. This site is dedicated to the enjoyment and health benefits of white tea.
White tea is a fascinating topic in itself, and we explore all there is to know about our favorite brew, with the barely hidden hope that it will become yours, too.
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