Post #9: Revision— Different kinds of Oolong Tea

Oolong tea is the most famous tea from Asia. In Tang Dynasty, the Chinese had started to produce and drink Oolong tea. Then, through a lot of ambassadors and history events, Oolong was brought into other countries such as Europe and the United States. In Nowadays, not only Taiwanese or Chinese people drink Oolong tea, but also a myriad of occidentals love to drink this special tea from Asia. In virtue of different production methods, processes or various tea trees catalog, and they all have different smell and taste. Orientals always devote time and effort to the development of Oolong tea. Therefore, they created several kinds of Oolong tea such as High Mountain Tea, Dong Ding Tea, Tieguanyin and Dong Fang Mei Ren Tea.

High Mountain Tea

           

According to the name of this tea, we can immediately understand that it should grows in the high Mountains. In Taiwan, tea farmers cultivate high mountain tea in the places higher than 1000m sea level. Since High Mountain's temperature is low and the sun usually has a short time to shine on the place. Therefore, it will reduce the bitter tastes of theophylline, and make the tea smell more strong and sweet.

Taiwan has so many mountains, so it caused that Taiwan can have high production rate of High Mountain Tea. The most famous areas which produce most of High Mountain Tea are Chai-Yi County and Nantou County. Especially, in Chai-Yi county which is the Alishan located -also known as Mount Ali. The High Mountain Tea are produced in Alishan also called Alishan Tea too. The tea farmers plant the tea trees on the hillsides which are above 1200 to1400m sea level. This high terrain  produces the best quality of High Mountain Tea.

Dong Ding Tea

Dong Ding Oolong is the most famous kind of Oolong tea in Taiwan. The place of origin is Luku Town in Nantou County. The meaning of Dong Ding is actually a mountain which is located in Nantou County, and it named Dong Ding. This mountain produces the first Dong Ding Tea, so the inventor chose the toponym as the name of this tea. Dong Ding tea is partially fermented tea is only 30 percent. The most special part of this tea is that after a tea factory bake and dry it, they will put the tea leaves into a cotton cloth and knead to many little tea balls. The best quality of Dong Ding tea should be golden color like amber after brewing. In addition to an impact which made Nantou County destroy and have reestablished for a long time. In September 21^st 1991, a terrible earthquake almost destroys the whole Nantou County. Tea trees had serious damage that was hard to redeem at the time. However, after the tea farmers went back to their tea yards, they discovered that there came a huge number of Jacobiasca formosana (Paoli). Due to those bugs, they make the tea produce a different smell that is elegant and sweet. Tea farmers figure out a new idea, they called this tea Dong Ding Queen Tea. The special smell makes a lot of customer looks forward to drink and buy it and turned the tea farmers crisis to better.

Tieguanyin

Tieguanyin tea is originated from Fujian, China. In China, this is the most popular Oolong tea, and it has been invested for a long time. Before 18^th century, Chinese people started drinking Tieguanyin. It has entirely complex production processes. Only the purebred Teiguanyin tea trees can be used to produce this tea. Moreover, Tieguanyin is really hard to plant successfully. Tea farmer must need to find the most appropriate place that has good temperature, weather and soil for Teiguanyin. Good skill of tea baking, purebred tea trees and good environment are the most important keys that will affect the quality of Teiguanyin. The best Tieguanyin should have gentle curl, beautiful green color and the surface looks like hoarfrost on the top of it.

Tung Fang Mei Ren Tea

Tung Fung Mei Ren Tea also known as Oriental Beauty Tea and White Tip Oolong Tea. Since the tea buds have many visible white tip on the surface. Don Fang Mei Ren Tea is also only partially fermented tea about 70 percent. Dong Fang Mei Ren Tea has rich fruit and honey tastes. It said that it due to the tea bugs bite the tea leaves. Therefore, if tea farmers want to plant good quality Dong Fang Mei Ren Tea trees, they cannot spray chemical pesticides.

Oolong tea is the most popular oriental tea in the world.  It actually has a lot of benefits for human's body.  Keep drinking Oolong tea may help you stay in a good shape and prohibit some disease such as Hypertension.  No matter what kinds of Oolong tea that people drink, they can gain benefits from it.   It not only tastes great but also provides nourishment that a human needs.