What tea is fresh and fragrant? What tea is strong and intense?
Teas can be broadly categorized based on their taste profiles into fresh/fragrant types and strong/intense types. Fresh and fragrant teas, such as Dongting Biluochun and Mengding Ganlu, are known for their clear, refreshing aroma and brisk, sweet taste, typically made from tender leaves processed pr...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
The Connotation of Tea Soup Color
The most crucial step in tea appreciation is brewing and tasting, which involves steeping the tea leaves and then evaluating them. The general procedure includes: appreciating the soup color, smelling the aroma, tasting the flavor, and examining the brewed leaves. This article focuses on 'appreciati...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Tieguanyin Charcoal-Roasted Tea
Charcoal-roasted tea refers to Tieguanyin or Taiwanese oolong roasted using charcoal. Only high-quality raw tea leaves can produce top-grade roasted tea. The process demands superior raw materials and highly skilled artisans with over a decade of experience. Charcoal roasting is challenging due to t...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Six Questions About 'Pre-Qingming Tea'
'Pre-Qingming Tea' refers to tea leaves picked and processed before the Qingming Festival in the Jiangnan tea region of China's Yangtze River basin. It is primarily green tea, with some black tea. Due to low pre-Qingming temperatures, tea trees grow slowly, resulting in low yield but high quality. T...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Cooking Rice with Fu Brick Tea Water Can Prevent 5 Diseases
Professor Liu Zhonghua from Hunan Agricultural University recommends using tea water to cook rice as a disease prevention method, which has been affirmed by health and tea research experts. Using Fu Brick Tea (a type of dark tea water for cooking rice is believed to help prevent five types of disea...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Try Mulberry, Chrysanthemum, and Almond Tea for Purulent Sore Throat
This article introduces a traditional folk remedy for symptoms like a purulent sore throat, including sensations of a foreign body, itching, burning, dryness, and mild pain. The remedy involves brewing a tea with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, almonds, and rock sugar. It explains that mulberry leav...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Five Clever Methods for Storing Tea at Home
Proper home tea storage is essential to maintain flavor and freshness. Tea generally prefers dry, cool environments and is sensitive to moisture and strong odors. Effective storage requires airtight, odor-free containers with good moisture resistance. This article outlines five practical methods: ge...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Clever Tea Storage for Longer Preservation
Tea is highly susceptible to moisture and odors, and under conditions of high temperature, humidity, sunlight, and ample oxygen, its internal components deteriorate rapidly, lowering quality and accelerating spoilage. Proper storage is crucial, especially for valuable new-harvest green teas and aged...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
Friends Who Smoke, It's Time for You to Drink Tea!
Scientific research indicates that drinking tea can mitigate the harms of smoking. Components in tea, such as tea polyphenols and vitamin C, help degrade various harmful substances found in cigarettes. This provides a scientific basis for why many smokers favor tea. Tea consumption may reduce the li...
Tea News · Feb 03, 2026
The Health Value of Tea Lies in Tea Polyphenols
The primary reason tea contributes to health preservation is its content of tea polyphenols. National standards for tea beverages also use tea polyphenol content as a key indicator. Each kilogram of tea beverage must contain more than 300 milligrams of tea polyphenols. However, tea beverages are not...
Tea News · Feb 02, 2026