What are the classification and drinking characteristics of white tea? The category of white tea is based on the different varieties of tea tree to distinguish between the varieties picked from the large white tea tea tree is called Dabai, picked from the tea tree of Narcissus is called Narcissus white, picked from the vegetable tea tea tree is called small white. And because of the different picking standards, and will be selected from the large white tea made of single buds known as silver needle (also known as white silver needle); will be selected from the shoots of the tips of the buds, the finished tea tea colour such as flowers, known as white peony. What are the characteristics of white tea?

　　What are the characteristics of white tea?

　　White Hair Silver Needle

　　White Silver Needle, referred to as Silver Needle, also known as White Hair, is one of the only white tea varieties of the best, with Junshan Silver Needle in the world. The Ming Dynasty Tian Yihang "cooking spring sketches" said: tea to fire as a second, raw sunshine for the top, but also more close to nature, and cut off the fire gas ear. This shows the excellent quality of white tea. White Hair Silver Needle the origin of this name is because its finished products are mostly buds, the whole body is covered with white hair, dry tea colour such as silver, the shape of the slender as a needle, so take this elegant name.

　　White Hair Silver Needle is produced in Fuding County, Fujian Province, at the foot of Mt. Tai Mo Shan and Zhenghe County, nowadays the tea buds of White Hair Silver Needle are all picked from Fuding Dabai Tea or Zhenghe Dabai Tea's good tea trees, Dabai Tea is a kind of late-budding tea buds are strong and fertile, with a high polyphenol and water leachate content, which makes the finished product taste fresh, fragrant and clear, and the soup is thick. Shen Kuo in the Song Dynasty in the "Dream Stream Brush Talk" praised: the beauty of the tea, the quality of its good and planted in the soil and the beauty of the new shoots will be more than an inch long. These fine varieties of large white tea are the necessary foundation for the manufacture of White Hair Silver Needle.

　　White Peony

　　White Peony tea is another precious variety in China's famous white tea garden. It is named White Peony because its green leaves with silver-white centred hairs are shaped like flowers, and when brewed, the green leaves hold the young buds like the buds of peonies in their first blossom, hence the name White Peony.

　　White Peony tea was created in 1922 in Shui Ji, Jianyang County, Fujian Province, which was originally part of Jianou County. According to the Jianou County Record, White Peony tea was produced in Xixiang and Zixi, which is about 30 miles wide. Since then, the Zhenghe area also began to produce white peony, and gradually became the main production area of white peony tea. Currently, white peony is widely distributed in Zhenghe, Jianyang, Songxi, Fuding and other counties in Fujian Province.

　　Gongmei

　　Gongmei, sometimes called Shoumei, is one of the most highly produced varieties of white tea, accounting for about half of the total white tea production. It is made from the buds of the Vegetable Tea tea tree, and this type of gross tea made from Vegetable Tea buds is called Small White to distinguish it from the Large White gross tea made from the buds of the Fuding Large White Tea and the Zhenghe Large White Tea tree. In the past, vegetable tea buds used to be used to make varieties such as White Hair Silver Needle, but later on, they were changed to use Large White to make White Hair Silver Needle and White Peony, while Small White was used to make Tribute Eyebrows. Usually, Gongmei is a sign of superior quality to Shoumei, but in recent years it is generally referred to only as Gongmei, and no longer as Shoumei.

　　The above is the classification and characteristics of white tea for you, I hope you can remember. Finally, I wish you all good health.