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These Tea Knowledge Points: Even Tea Masters May Not Know Them All!

Tea News · Jun 16, 2026

       Understanding tea does not necessarily mean understanding life; those who appreciate life may understand tea.

Drinking tea does not cause calcium loss; on the contrary, moderate tea consumption is beneficial to calcium absorption.

 


 

Don't believe the nonsense that the first infusion is good for health—rinsing tea leaves makes them healthier.

Pu'er tea is not necessarily more valuable the older it gets; garbage from 100 years ago is still garbage today.

Da Hong Pao belongs to oolong tea, not black tea.

Anji white tea belongs to the green tea category, not white tea.

Dongting Biluochun is produced in Dongting Mountain, Jiangsu, not Dongting Lake, Hunan.

 


 

Jasmine tea is not necessarily better with flowers—after all, it is tea, not flowers.

Junshan Yinzhen belongs to the yellow tea category, not white tea.

Oolong tea is qing tea (blue-green tea).

Beigang Maojian and Weishan Maojian are yellow teas, not green teas.

Aged Pu'er tea can be very valuable, but it is not necessarily from old tree tea plants.

Pure material old tree tea does not mean no blending; blending is absolute, pure material is relative.

 


 

Drinking tea immediately after a meal does not aid digestion; on the contrary, it can hinder digestion.

Not all teas are better when fresher; some need to have their heat or coolness tempered to be beneficial.

Pu'er raw tea will not become ripe tea no matter how long it is aged; ripening is a process, not a passage of time.

"Black tea" in English is not dark tea, but red tea.

 


 

Chrysanthemum tea is a flower infusion, not tea.

Yunnan Moonlight White is white tea, not Pu'er tea.

Matcha is a special processed tea powder, not ground green tea.

The commonly referred to "Lu'an tea" is not the green tea Lu'an Guapian, but dark tea.

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