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Chinese Black Tea
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The origin of black tea in China can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, when tea farmers in Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province accidentally discovered the method of making black tea while making tea.
In the 17th century, Lapsang Sochong black tea, as the earliest black tea variety, began to be exported to Europe and was loved by European aristocrats, and since then black tea has gradually spread to the world.
Chinese White Tea
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White tea has a long history. It has been recorded in Tang and Song dynasties.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a great improvement in the production method of Chinese tea, which began to change from cake tea to loose tea.
In the Ming Dynasty, the improvement of tea making technology from cake tea to loose tea was completed. At the same time, the classification of Chinese tea also appeared for the first time, gradually breaking through the single category of green tea, and inventing and producing black tea, yellow tea, black tea and green tea.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, China gradually formed six complete types of tea: green tea, black tea, black tea, green tea, white tea, yellow tea, and the contemporary meaning of "white tea" was also invented and produced in this historical period