Preliminary Exploration of the Key Processes of Six Major Tea Categories from the Perspective of Philology
According to the current Chinese national standards and international standards,tea is divided into six ba-sic tea types.From a historical analysis of the key processes of the six basic tea types in numerous historical records,it can be found that the process of steamed green tea has appeared in the Lu Yu era of the Tang Dynasty at the latest,and the process of pan-fired green tea has appeared at least in the middle and late Ming Dynasty at the turn of the 16th-17th century Quite mature;the"yellow"process of yellow tea in the modern sense can be traced back to at least the late Ming Dynasty;the key craftsmanship of white tea through the"withering"process was first recorded in ancient books in the Ming Dynasty;The"fine manipulation"process of oolong tea was first seen in the early Qing Dy-nasty;the"enzymatic reaction"process of black tea should have appeared in the late Ming Dynasty;the prototype of the"pile"process of dark tea appeared in the early Ming Dynasty at the latest.