The Most Popular Traditional Drink in China

Chinese Tea Culture
It is known to all that, in traditional Chinese culture, tea plays an important role. With the development of social economy and people’s awareness of the importance of fitness, tea has become a more and more important part in people’s daily life.
The tea culture in China not only brings humankind’s spirit and wisdom to a higher level, but also creates a more close relationship between friends, making people more enjoyable and healthy. In China, tea not only has the embodiment of spiritual civilization, but also riches the cultural accomplishments.

Chinese Tea History
Actually, Chinese tea has a long history. China is the homeland of tea. Tea has a history of about four or five thousand years.
Tea has been a great development in the Song Dynasty, which in return, promoted the development of tea culture. During the Yuan Dynasty, tea culture has come into the rapid development period. And in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the tea has become very popular among ordinary people. After the founding of New China, China's annual output of tea has risen from 7500 ton in1949 to more than 60 million ton in 1998. In the year of 1998, the China International Tea Cultural Exchange Center was established. With the emergence of tea culture, more and more tea houses have been established.
Chinese tea is one part of Chinese culture. In China, many people, no matter young or elder people, likes drinking tea.

Chinese Tea Classification
The most famous Chinese teas are green tea, black tea, Wulong tea, white tea and yellow tea. In the following, there will be a short introduction of each kind of tea.

Green Tea
China's major tea is green tea, its national annual output is 100,000 tons. Chinese green tea is produced in many provinces. Shandong, Zhejiang, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Fujian, Guizhou are China's green tea-producing provinces.
Latest scientific findings show that the retention of natural substances in green tea ingredients on aging, prevent cancer, anticancer, bactericidal, anti-inflammatory and other special effects, which are unique from other kind of tea.

Black Tea
Because of the color of dry tea and brewing tea mainly in red tone, hence it has the name of black tea. Black tea ranks China's second largest export tea. It accounts for about 50% of customers located in 60 countries and regions, in which the largest circulation are Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Canada, Chile, Germany, the Netherlands and Eastern Europe.

Wulong tea
The Wulong tea, which blends the production of green tea and black tea together, has a quality between green tea and black tea. It not only has the thick and fresh flavor of black tea, but also has the pleasant fragrance of green tea. It enjoys a good reputation as green leaves with a red edge.
White tea
By definition, this tea is white. White Tea has a history of about 200 years.
Traditional pharmacological show of cool white tea has the effect of cooling pathogenic fire, overseas Chinese tend to look white as rare treasures.

West Lake Dragon Well Tea
The West Lake Dragon Well is called Dragon Well for short. It is produced in the mountainous regions around Longjing Village to the southwest of the West Lake in Hangzhou City in the Zhejiang Province. The Dragon Well tea has four wonders: color wonder, fragrance wonder, flavor wonder and shape wonder, namely, emerald in color, thick in fragrance, sweet and refreshing in taste and in the shape of a sparrow's tongue. The elements contained by the Dragon Well tea such as amino acids, catechu and vitamins have the effects of stimulating the production of bodily fluids, quenching thirst, refreshing, benefiting thinking, digesting food, removing greasiness, diminishing inflammation and detoxification.