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Oolong tea is also known as green tea and semi-fermentation tea. Oolong tea is a type of tea with excellent quality produced through the processes of Rolling, Withering, Shaking and Roasting. The quality of Oolong Tea is between Black Tea and Green Tea, integrating the production methods of Black Tea and Green Tea, its flavor is sweet and strong, and its gas is rich, not only has the fragrance of Green Tea and flower aroma, but also has the Tea Taste of Mellow and Rich, sex and not cold, and will not be bad for a long time. Oolong tea has the color of “green leaves with red edges” or “three red and seven green”, and the high-level oolong tea has a unique “flavor”, such as Wuyi Rock Tea with rock rhyme, Anxi Tieguanyin Tea with Guanyin rhyme.
Oolong Tea Making
Added process of Oolong tea mainly includes Sun-Drying, Cooling and Withering, Fixation, Bag Rolling and Roasting.
Sun-Drying
That is, in the sunshine to disseminate the water in the Fresh Leaves, so that the leaf material undergoes certain chemical changes, thus destroying chlorophyll, removing the green odor, and preparing for Shaking (i.e., making green).
Cooling and Withering
Indoor withering. The Sun-Drying tea leaves are placed indoors in a cool, breezy place to dissipate heat and redistribute the moisture in the various parts of the Fresh Leaves, making it easier to shake the Tea Leaves.
Shaking
It is carried out in a roller type Shaking machine, which makes Tea Leaves rubbing and colliding with each other, rupturing the cells at the edge of the leaves thus promoting the Oxidation of Tea Polyphenols, forming the characteristic of green leaves with red edges, and at the same time increasing the concentration of Tea Leaves aroma.
Most of these tools, such as the traditional tea sampling tray, dustpan and bamboo cage, have now been removed from the stage of history, and are relics that bear witness to the long history of handmade tea.
Handmade traditional tea production is to use such a bamboo basket to shake and collide Fresh tea leaves, because it is handmade, so it is easy to control the strength and number of times, and there are holes between the bamboo basket, which is breathable and can dissipate the green stench and water in the Fresh tea leaves more quickly.
Fixation
Equivalent to green tea Fixation, the purpose is to use high temperature to stop enzyme activity, thus terminating Fermentation, preventing the leaves from continuing to turn red, and further volatilizing the tea aroma and facilitating Rolling.
Rolling and Roasting
It is usually done in two steps, with the processes of initial kneading, initial roasting, re-kneading and re-roasting. These two steps are used to shape the Tea Leaves in order to achieve the shape of bending into a spiral and to knead out the tea juice so that the overflow is concentrated and solidified on the surface of the leaves for easy brewing.
After the high-grade oolong tea is twisted and shaped, the fragments, leaf stems and imperfectly shaped leaves in the gross tea are also picked out, and the Dried Tea is sorted and Packing.
Effects of Oolong Tea
Oolong tea is a neutral tea in terms of medicinal properties, and it is suitable for people of all constitutions, whether hot or cold.
- Daily health care: it has the functions of refreshing the mind, relieving heat and preventing heatstroke, diuretic Mouth-Watering, eliminating food and greasiness.
- Weight loss and slimming: oolong tea contains a large number of tea polyphenol substances, not only can improve the role of lipolytic enzymes, but also promote the metabolic activity of tissue-neutral lipase, effectively reducing the accumulation of subcutaneous fat.
- Beauty and skin care: long-term consumption of oolong tea can promote the amount of sebum to maintain a balance, but also to improve the water retention capacity of the skin stratum corneum, keep the skin moist, so that the skin has elasticity.
- Anti-tumor: Oolong tea can inhibit the production of cancer cells and can block the production of carcinogens, of which Anxi Tieguanyin Tea has the best anti-cancer effect.
- Anti-aging: polyphenolic compounds in oolong tea can effectively prevent the over-oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids; alkaloids can indirectly remove free radicals, so as to achieve the purpose of delaying aging.
Suitable dosage: Adults can drink 6 to 10 grams of Dried Tea a day, while others reduce it appropriately.
Suitable for people: women with cold stomach, dieters, people with high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia can drink the strong flavor type which is warm, and people with hot stomach can drink the clear flavor type which is cool.
Suitable Season: All seasons, strong flavor in winter, light flavor in summer.
Precautions for Drinking Oolong Tea
Drinking contraindications: empty stomach, can not drink before going to bed, pregnant women, wasting, neurasthenia should not drink.
Oolong Tea Brewing Method
- Selection of tea sets: Teapot with Yixing purple sand pot or Jingdezhen porcelain Teapot, these two pots in order to oolong tea the charm of the performance of the best. Tea Fragrance is often used to drink white porcelain cups or paste white porcelain inside the purple sand cups, with these two kinds of cups to drink Oolong Tea Fragrance is stronger.
- Control of water temperature: Oolong tea requires the highest brewing water temperature. Water temperature is high, the tea juice leaching rate is high, the active ingredients in the tea can be fully Steeping out, the tea flavor is strong, Tea Taste is easy to develop, Tea Taste is also mellow, more can drink out of the oolong tea unique flavor.
If the temperature of the water is low, the tea will seem bland and tasteless. However, the water used to make tea should not be boiled for too long.
- Brewing essentials: Oolong tea brewing time by the water temperature, Tea Leaves old and young and the amount of tea decided by three factors. Under normal circumstances, the tea can be consumed after 2-3 minutes of boiling water. However, the following two cases should be handled in a special way: First, if the water temperature is higher, the Tea Leaves are more tender or the amount of tea is more, the first channel can be poured out of Tea Liquor, the second channel after half a minute of brewing pour out, and then each channel can be slightly extended for dozens of seconds. Secondly, if the water temperature is not high, the Tea Leaves more coarse old or with less tea, the brewing time can be slightly extended, but can not Steeping too long, or Tea Liquor Color darkened, Tea Fragrance lost, there is a stuffy taste. If the brewing time is too short, the Tea Leaves flavor will not come out. Brew Endurance oolong tea, generally can be brewed 5 to 6 times, the top oolong tea is known as “seven bubbles have a residual fragrance”.