Is Longjing tea green tea or black tea?

Longjing tea belongs to green tea, which does not ferment and is cool. Black tea belongs to fully fermented tea, which is mild. Longjing tea has the characteristics of green tea clear soup and green leaves, while black tea dry tea and tea soup are mainly red.

Longjing tea is made by picking, drying, rolling and frying, and belongs to the green tea among the six major teas. The biggest difference between Longjing tea as green tea and black tea is the degree of fermentation. Longjing tea belongs to non-fermented tea, and the fermentation degree of black tea reaches 70%-80%, so Longjing tea is green tea.

The finished Longjing tea has smooth and straight appearance, green and tender color, light green and clear soup color and refreshing and sweet taste. Longjing tea has the characteristics of clear green tea soup and green leaves, while black tea and tea soup are mainly red, which is very different from Longjing tea.

The super West Lake Longjing and Zhejiang Longjing in spring tea have flat and smooth appearance, sharp seedlings, longer buds than leaves, light green color and no fuzz on the body surface; The soup is light green (yellow) and bright; Fragrant or tender chestnut fragrance, but some teas are highly fragrant; The taste is refreshing or mellow; The leaves are light green and intact.

With the decline of other grades of Longjing tea, the appearance color changed from light green to turquoise and dark green, the tea body changed from small to large, and the tea strips changed from smooth to rough. The fragrance changed from tender to thick, and the fourth-grade tea began to have a rough taste; The bottom of the leaves changed from tender buds to sandwich leaves, and the color changed from light yellow-turquoise-yellow brown.

Longjing tea in summer and autumn is dark green or dark green in color, with large body and no fuzz on the body surface. The color of the soup is Huang Liang, fragrant and thick, thick and slightly astringent, with bright yellow leaves. The overall quality is much worse than that of spring tea of the same level.