Magic Tea
China is the hometown of tea and the birthplace of tea culture. The discovery and use of Chinese tea has a history of more than 4,700 years, and it has a long history and spread throughout the world. Tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation. At the same time, tea has become the most popular and most beneficial green drink in the world. The tea area in China is vast, and it is divided into three levels. The first-class is in the southwest and the south of the Yangtze River, the second-level is in the northwest and the north, and the third-level is in the south of China.
According to the production methods, Chinese tea is divided into green tea, yellow tea, white tea, green tea, black tea, dark tea and other major categories. Green tea is not fermented tea, the degree of fermentation is 0%. Its representative tea is West Lake Longjing, Xinyang Maojian. Yellow tea is a micro-fermented tea with a fermentation degree of 10%-20%. Guangdong Da ye qing is the representative of yellow tea. Oolong tea which belongs to semi-fermented tea, and its fermentation degree is 30%-60%. Feng Huang Dan Cong is one of oolong teas. Black tea is fully fermented tea, the fermentation degree is 80% — 90%. Dark tea is post-fermented tea, the degree of fermentation is 100%. The famous Yunnan Pu’er tea and brick tea belong to black tea.
Not only Chinese enjoy drinking tea, but the British are also tea lovers. And Britain’s love for tea is not inferior to that of China. But the British have their own unique way of drinking tea. British people like to drink tea, but their favorite is black tea. The British introduced tea from China a long time ago. Compared with the Chinese people’s reservation about the bitter taste of tea, the British prefer to cover up this taste. At the end of the 18th century, the habit of drinking tea became popular in the UK, because the British like to add sugar and milk to their tea. And black tea gradually occupied the dominant position in the tea market in United Kingdom. The British tea culture developed to the peak in the Victorian era. The British used the goods of other countries to create a unique British black tea culture and created an elegant European afternoon tea lifestyle.
