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Yellow tea is one of China’s basic tea categories, classified as a lightly fermented tea, and is also a distinctive Chinese specialty. It was created in the late Ming Dynasty and is primarily produced in provinces such as Zhejiang, Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong. The most distinctive feature of yellow tea is its “yellow liquor and yellow leaves.” It has tightly rolled, fine leaves with visible buds, a bright apricot-yellow liquor, a mellow and refreshing taste, and infused leaves that are tender and bright yellow. Yellow tea has a mild nature, and regular consumption is particularly beneficial for the spleen and stomach.
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Beigang Maojian Tea

Beigang Maojian is a famous historical tea. It was recorded in the Tang Dynasty under the name “Yonghu Tea”. Later, it was renamed “Beigang” when it registered a trademark. According to legend, it was this tea that Princess Wencheng brought with her to Tibet when she got married.
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Haima Gong Tea

Haima Palace Tea is a famous historical tea that originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. It has been passed down to this day as a tribute tea. Because it is produced in Haima Palace Township, it is named Haima Palace Tea.
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Huoshan Huangya Tea

Huoshan Huangya is a famous historical tea. According to the Ming Dynasty Wang Xiangjin’s “Qunfangpu”, Huoshan Huangya was one of the best teas at that time. It has undergone evolution and even the technology was lost. It was later restored in 1971 and has continued to this day. It is now as famous as Huangshan and Huangmei Opera, and is called the “Three Huangs of Anhui”.
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Junshan Yinzhen Tea

Junshan Silver Needle is a famous tea with a long history. It was once called “Yellow Feather” and “White Crane Tea”. It is produced in Junshan, Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. It is named Junshan Silver Needle because of its needle-like shape. It is not only a fine tea, but also a beautiful tea art. It is very beautiful when brewed.
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Luyuan Tea

Luyuan Tea is a famous historical tea. It was created during the Baoqing period of the Southern Song Dynasty and was selected as a tribute tea during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Its reputation has lasted for a long time. It participated in the national famous and high-quality tea competition in 1982 and 1986, and was rated as a “National Famous Tea” by the Ministry of Commerce.
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Mengding Huangya Tea

Mengding Huangya is one of the Mengding tea series products and is a top-grade yellow tea in bud shape. The cultivation of Mengding tea began in the Western Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,000 years. It was once listed as a tribute tea in history and was rated as one of the top ten famous teas in China after the founding of New China. In the early 1950s, the production of yellow buds began, and was called “Mengding Huangya”.
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Mogan Huangya Tea

Mogan Huangya is a famous historical tea, known as Moganshan Bud Tea in ancient times. It is one of the first batch of provincial famous teas in Zhejiang Province. It has been a treasure among teas since the Song Dynasty, with outstanding production. It faded out of the market in the late Qing Dynasty and resumed production in 1979.
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Wanxi Huangda Tea

Anhui Huangda Tea is a famous historical tea. It was already well-known during the Tang and Song dynasties. It was also offered as tribute to the royal family during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its sales volume continued to rise. In 2010, it was recognized as a “National Geographical Indication Protected Agricultural Product” by the Ministry of Agriculture.

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Tea Leaves after Fixation and Rolling are wrapped in paper or piled up and covered with a wet cloth for a few minutes or hours to promote non-enzymatic oxidation of the Tea Leaves under the action of heat and water to form a yellow color. The “Yellowing Process” is the unique Added process of yellow tea, making yellow tea with yellow soup and yellow leaves. Yellow tea color is golden and bright, the most significant feature is “yellow soup and yellow leaves”. Tea Leaves is tender and sharp, Tea Liquor is apricot yellow and clear, taste is sweet and fresh, Sweet Aftertaste, Astringency is weak.

Yellow tea is divided into three categories: yellow bud tea, yellow tea and yellow tea. Huangya Tea is picked the most tender single bud or a bud and a leaf Added process, the young bud color yellow and more Baihaozhen Tea, so the name Huangya Tea, the aroma mellow, such as Junshan Yinhaozhen Tea, Mengding Huangya Tea. Yellow small tea is picked tender buds and leaves Added process, a bud and a leaf, fine, famous varieties of Weishan Maojian Tea, Yuanan Luyuan. Yellow tea is China’s yellow tea in the production of the largest class, Fresh Leaves picking requirements of large branches and large rod, a bud of four or five leaves, the length of 10 to 13 centimeters, to Anhui Huoshan yellow tea, Guangdong’s big leaf green is the most famous.

Production of Yellow Tea

In the production process of Fixation green tea, people found that due to the green not kneading in time, or after kneading not timely Pan frying, Pan firing, stacked for too long, the leaf color is yellow, resulting in yellow leaves and yellow soup, and then produced a new category – yellow tea.

Yellow tea is a lightly fermented tea, the production process mainly includes Withering, Fixation, Rolling, Yellowing Process, Drying and so on. The special “Brewed Tea Yellow Process” creates its own unique “Dried Tea Yellow, Tea Liquor Color Yellow, Brewed Tea Leaves Yellow” three yellow quality characteristics.

Fixation

Yellow tea through the Fixation, in order to destroy the enzyme activity, evaporate part of the water, exudes the green grass gas, the formation of the aroma has an important role.

Yellowing Process

Yellowing Process is a characteristic of yellow tea manufacturing process, is the formation of yellow yellow soup key process. From Fixation to the end of Drying, can be for the yellowing of Tea Leaves to create the appropriate conditions for the hot and humid process, but as a tea-making process, some tea in the Fixation after the Yellowing Process, some in the hair fire after the Yellowing Process, and some of the alternation between the smothering and frying. For different Tea Leaves quality, different methods, but the same way, are to form a good yellow yellow soup quality characteristics.

Factors affecting Yellowing Process are mainly the water content and leaf temperature of Tea Leaves. More water content, the higher the leaf temperature, the yellowing process under hot and humid conditions is also the faster.

Drying

Drying of yellow tea is usually done in several times and at a lower temperature than other teas.

The Health Benefits of Yellow Tea

  1. Remove stomach heat: yellow tea is slightly cold in nature, so it is suitable for people with stomach heat. Yellow tea is compost tea, in the composting process will produce a large number of digestive enzymes, the most beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Indigestion, loss of appetite can drink it.
  2. Preventing esophageal cancer: yellow tea is rich in tea polyphenols, amino acids, soluble sugar, vitamins and other nutrients, which are effective in preventing and treating esophageal cancer.
  3. Anti-inflammatory and sterilization: more than 85% of the natural substances in the Fresh Leaves of yellow tea are retained, and these substances have a special effect on sterilization and anti-inflammatory.
  4. Anti-fat weight loss: yellow tea in the composting process produces digestive enzymes can also promote the metabolism of fat, reduce the accumulation of fat, to a certain extent, but also to remove fat, is a good product for weight loss.

Precautions for Drinking Yellow Tea

Suitable for: people with cold stomach, dieters, hypertension, hyperlipidemia patients.

Drinking habits and contraindications: empty stomach, bedtime can not drink, pregnant women, emaciation, neurasthenia should not drink.

How to Brew Yellow Tea

  1. Selection of tea utensils: it is best to use transparent glass cups, and use glass as a cover. With such a cup of yellow tea can best show the charm of yellow tea. The height of the cup is 10-15 centimeters, and the diameter of the mouth is 4-6 centimeters.
  2. Control of water temperature: yellow tea after composting, most of the nutrients in the tea has become soluble, general boiling water can make the nutrients dissolved, so the water temperature is not very high, 70 ℃ ~ 75 ℃ can not be soaked cooked tea buds. Before brewing, first of all, the Teacup should be preheated to maintain a suitable brewing temperature. After brewing, it should be covered with a lid to keep warm to prevent a rapid drop in temperature.
  3. Brewing Essentials: Take Junshan Yinzhen Tea as an example, preheat the Teacup with boiling water, clean the tea set and wipe the cup dry to avoid the tea buds absorbing water and not easy to stand up. Use a teaspoon to gently remove about 3 grams of yellow tea from the tea canister and place it into the Teacup to be brewed. Use 50 to 60 ml of boiling water per gram of tea. Using a kettle, pour boiling water at about 70℃ into the cups until the tea buds are halfway wet, then pour boiling water at about 70℃ into the cups. A little later, rinse again until it is 7/8 full. Cover with a glass lid piece. After about 5 minutes, remove the glass lid. Under the action of water and heat, you can see the tea buds gradually standing upright, floating up and down, and there are crystal bubbles on the tips of the buds. The shape of the tea posture, the sinking and floating of the tea buds, and the occurrence of air bubbles are all rare when brewing other teas. As the yellow bud tea is almost never rolled, and the water temperature is low when brewing, the tea juice is not easy to leach out, so the brewing time has to be lengthened. Therefore, yellow bud tea is usually brewed for 10 minutes before tasting.

Suitable dosage: Adults can brew 6 to 10 grams a day, it is advisable to brew in small portions, the elderly or children will be appropriately reduced.

Suitable Season: All seasons, especially for fall.

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