Flat green tea
West lake longjing tea
When it comes to West Lake Longjing, you can imagine flat dry tea in your mind. Yes, West Lake Longjing is the most common flat green tea. Flat green tea, with a straight and flat shape, is made by blanching fresh leaves, frying them in a pot and flattening them gradually. Besides the West Lake Longjing, the common flat green tea also includes Dinggu Dafang and Maoshan Qingfeng.
Strip green tea
Guiping Xishan tea
The strip green tea is rope-shaped and looks like an eyebrow. After the fresh leaves are fixed, they should be twisted into strips and then fried or dried to shape. The typical representative of strip green tea is Wuyuan Mingmei, with tight lines and straight peaks. Miao Ting is beautiful, its color is green and moist. In addition, Changchao green tea, Guiping Xishan tea and Yuhang Jingshan tea all belong to strip green tea.
Common shape: spiral green tea
Biluochun tea
Dongting Biluochun is the most famous representative of snail tea. Snail tea is characterized by being slender, curly and spiral, with white hair exposed. Fresh leaves are kneaded during frying. The same spiral green tea includes Wuxi Good Tea, Linhai Pan Hao and Cuiluo.
Common shape: pointed green tea
Taiping houkuicha
Pointed green tea is also called "orchid green tea". Take Taiping Monkey Kui as an example, cut the bud tip and stretch it naturally into the shape of an orchid. In the process of making, the tea leaves are not twisted after the enzyme is removed, but are slightly trimmed and shaped, then baked and dried to fix the shape of the tea leaves and keep the bud leaves intact. Huanghua Yun Jian, Cuilan Yuexi, Orchid Tea and Jingxian Tejian are all green teas in the shape of orchids.
Common styling: Mao Feng.
Huangshan Mao Feng [green tea produced near the famous Huangshan Mountain]
There are countless green teas with the word "Mao Feng" in their names. "Mao Feng" here is not only the name of tea, but also the shape of tea. Mao Feng is a strip, curly and white tea, made of fluffy and delicate bud leaves. After the fresh bud leaves are de-enzymed, they are fried in a pot to fine powder and then dried. Like our common Huangshan Mao Feng, the top-grade one is a bud and a leaf, and its shape is thin, flat and slightly curly, like a sparrow tongue. There are Emei Mao Feng, Lanxi Mao Feng, Jiuhua Mao Feng and so on.
Common shape: Maojian
Duyun Maojian tea
Like Mao Feng, many famous teas are also called Maojian tea. Duyun Maojian tea and Xinyang Maojian tea are undoubtedly the two most famous. Maojian is a kind of slightly curved and hairy green tea made of tender buds and leaves than Mao Feng. Bud leaves are made by deactivating enzymes, rolling, baking and shaping. Besides Duyun Maojian Tea and Xinyang Maojian Tea, Guzhang Maojian Tea, Jianghua Maojian Tea and Guanzhuang Maojian Tea are all famous products of Maojian Tea.
Common shape: flake green tea
Lu' an guapian tea
The shape of flake green tea is a loose and flat single leaf flake, such as Lu 'an melon flake is a typical flake green tea. The appearance of the finished tea is melon seed-shaped, with slightly warped leaves and uniform size. Picking fresh leaves, breaking into pieces in time, separating old pieces from tender pieces, deactivating enzymes, frying in a pan, forming a film, and drying. Qishan's business card is also a piece of green tea.
Green peony
In addition to the seven kinds of green tea introduced today, there are needle-shaped green teas like Anhua pine needles and pearl-shaped green teas headed by Yongqing Huo Qing.