Pu’er tea knowledge answers (3)

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More and more people are drinking Pu'er tea, and new tea lovers will join in every period of time. However, for those who are new to Pu'er tea, many concepts, common sense, and terminology of Pu'er tea are easily confused. We have compiled 12 common sense knowledge about Pu'er tea for tea lovers. They are simply shared with you for reference only:


What is raw tea?

The large-leaf tea trees grown in Yunnan are picked and made into dried tea, and the tea leaves are pressed into cakes, Tuo, bricks, etc., which are called raw Pu'er tea.

What is cooked tea?

The produced dry tea, also known as loose tea, needs to be made through loose water, fermentation and other techniques. The tea is called cooked tea.

How to distinguish raw and cooked Pu'er tea? 3. We can distinguish from several aspects

1. From the appearance: the color of raw tea is dark green, gray green, green, etc.; the color of cooked tea is brown, brown, reddish brown, dark brown, etc.
2. From the tea soup: the color of the raw tea soup is bright yellow, yellow-green, golden, orange, dark yellow, etc.; the color of the cooked tea soup is bright red, bright red, thick red, reddish brown, brown, dark brown, etc.
3. From the aroma: The aroma of raw tea includes honey, orchid, dried fruit, plum, etc.; the aroma of cooked tea is old, jujube, camphor, woody, etc.
4. From the taste: raw tea tastes bitter, refreshing, cool, sweet, has the ability to produce body fluids and returns sweetness, has sufficient tea spirit, full soup quality, etc. New tea has a grassy taste; cooked tea tastes sweet, mellow, smooth, etc. Some new teas have a heaping taste.



What type of tea does Pu'er tea belong to?

Pu'er tea is neither dark tea nor black tea. Because the production technology and essential characteristics of Pu'er tea are different from the six major tea categories, the Yunnan Tea Association appeals to the Chinese tea industry and will seriously discuss with experts and scholars across the country: call Yunnan Pu'er tea a reprocessed special tea and rearrange its position in the Chinese tea spectrum.

What are spring tea, summer tea and valley flower tea?
How to tell the difference? Spring tea is harvested from February to April. Summer tea is harvested between May and July. Autumn tea is harvested from late September to early November, which is Guhua tea.


What is sun-dried green and roasted green, and what is the difference between them?
After fresh tea leaves are picked and brought home, they are stir-fried, rolled, spread to cool on a bamboo mat and dried naturally in the sun, which is called sun-dried green tea. It can be stored for a long time. After the fresh tea leaves are picked, they are dehydrated and dried using a dryer. The highly fragrant tea leaves are called roasted green leaves. They have a shelf life and cannot be stored for a long time. Simply put, sun-drying is the Pu'er tea process, and roasting is the green tea process.

How is Pu'er tea graded? What is the difference between high and low grades?
The grading of Pu'er tea is determined by picking fresh leaves, that is, one bud, one bud with two leaves, one bud with three leaves, etc. When grading, high-grade tea has more buds, while low-grade tea has more leaves and more stems. This can be seen in the blending of cooked tea and raw tea with cake tea.

What are dry warehouse and wet warehouse Pu'er, and what are the differences?
Pu'er tea is stored in a warehouse with a relative humidity of less than 80%, allowing it to age slowly and naturally, transforming it into an "old fragrance" quality. This kind of tea is customarily called "dry warehouse Pu'er tea". "Wet warehouse Pu'er tea" is to put Pu'er tea into a wet warehouse with a relative humidity of more than 80% to allow it to transform quickly. However, Pu'er tea that will become moldy during the transformation process is called "wet warehouse Pu'er tea". Aging in a dry warehouse will make it more fragrant as it ages. Some unscrupulous merchants use wet warehouse tea to pass it off as aged dry warehouse tea.



How to store Pu'er tea?
If you store pressed tea, do not unpack it. If it is loose tea, it is recommended to store it in purple sand or purple clay pots. Secondly, the environment should be clean and sanitary, without odor, stable temperature and humidity, and kept away from light. To put it simply, it means "dry, ventilated and odor-free".

Where are the Pu’er tea tea areas and tea mountains located?
The four major Pu'er tea producing areas are Banna Tea Area, Pu'er Tea Area, Lincang Tea Area and Baoshan Tea Area.


The six ancient tea mountains are Youle, Gedeng, Yibang, Mangzhi, Manzhuan and Mansa. Except for "Youle" in Jinghong City, the other five major tea mountains are all in Mengla County. The new six major tea mountains are: Mengsong, Nannuo Mountain, Nanqiao, Jingmai (Lancang County, Pu'er City), Brown Mountain and Bada Mountain. The last eight tea mountains along the Lancang River, from north to south, are: Mannuo, Menghai, Mengsong, Nannuo Mountain, Pasha, Hekai, Brown Mountain, Jinghong Mengsong, and Bada Mountain. The Icelandic tea that everyone is familiar with is produced in Lincang.


What are crab legs?
Crab legs are a parasite that lives on older tea trees. It is green in color and shaped like two claws of a crab.

How to brew Pu’er tea?
In fact, Pu'er tea can be brewed simply or complexly; simple means brewing it however you like, such as putting it in a cup or an elegant cup; and complex means using a tureen, purple clay pot, purple pottery pot, silver pot, etc. Tea brewing instructions include: tea amount, water temperature, water filling, soup brewing time, tea tasting, etc. When brewing Pu'er tea, it depends on whether you drink tea or taste tea...

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Pu'er tea is neither dark tea nor black tea.