Tea茶

Since China has a long history of tea planting, extensive tea areas, various natural conditions, numerous varieties of tea trees and also different methods of tea collecting and processing, it has produced thousands of tea products. Through long-term practice, people have created and adopted diverse processing and making technologies for developing series of tea. These come from non-fermented, half-fermented and fully-fermented teas, which gradually formed the six major types of tea in traditional Chinese concept, which are green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and dark tea. Furthermore, scented tea and brick tea are famous teas as well.
由于我国产茶历史悠久，茶区辽阔，自然条件各异，茶树品种繁多，更因采制加工方法不同，从而形成了千姿百态、丰富多彩的茶品。人们通过长期的实践，创造并采用了不同的加工制作工艺，发展了从不发酵、半发酵到全发酵一系列不同茶类，逐步形成了中国传统意义上的六大茶类：绿茶、红茶、乌龙茶、白茶、黄茶、黑茶。此外，花茶和砖茶也是有名的茶品。

Green tea绿茶

Green tea
绿茶

Green tea is non-fermented. Its leaves and tea soup are green. Famous green tea in China includes West Lake Longjing Tea,Dongting Biluochun tea, XinYang fresh tea made of delicate leaf bud, etc.
绿茶是一种不经发酵制成的茶。叶片及汤呈绿色。中国著名的绿茶有西湖龙井、洞庭碧螺春、信阳毛尖，等等。

Black tea红茶

Black tea
红茶

Black tea is fermented. Its leaves and tea soup are red. Famous black tea in China includes Qimen black tea from Anhui, Zhenjiang black tea from Yunnan and Xuanhong black tea from Hubei, etc.
红茶是一种经过发酵制成的茶。叶片及汤呈红色。中国著名的红茶有安微祁红、云南镇红、湖北宣红，等等。

Oolong tea乌龙茶

Oolong tea
乌龙茶

Oolong tea is half-fermented. The character of this type is the leaves showing green in the centre and red at the edge, it is commonly called green leaves with red edging. It is mainly produced in Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan, etc. Generally, it is named in accordance with tea trees of producing areas, e.g. Tie Guan Yin, Da Hong Pao Tea and Oolong, etc. It is mellow as black tea but bitter and stronger than ordinary black tea while fresh as green tea but without the bitterness of ordinary green tea. It keeps strong and long-lasting flavor even after drinking, and has the effects such as refreshing oneself, promoting digestion, curing dysentery, cooling down the summer heat and sobering up, etc.
乌龙茶是一种半发酵茶，特征是叶片中心为绿色，边缘为红色，俗称绿叶红镶边。主要产于福建、广东、台湾等地。一般以产地的茶树命名，如铁观音、大红袍、乌龙等。它有红茶的醇厚，而又比一般红茶涩味浓烈；有绿茶的清爽，而无一般绿茶的涩味，其香气浓烈持久，饮后留香，并具提神、消食、止痢、解暑、醒酒等功效。