Is Darjeeling Tea black tea? Is Darjeeling Tea suitable for anyone to drink?

Among the six major tea systems in China, green tea is refreshing, oolong level, black tea is sweet and Pu'er is mellow.

But how much can you know about Western tea culture when you jump out of the Chinese circle? I guess it can only be described as lady afternoon tea.

As everyone knows, the clean, fresh and sweet flavor of black tea produced by high-grade international manors is what makes black tea popular among the ruling class, the royal aristocracy and the common people.

The charming flavor is like being in an European garden after the rain. As long as you drink a few cups, you can feel that the culture it carries and the Chinese tea system are two parallel lines that coexist in the world but develop independently.

Is Darjeeling black tea black tea?

Darjeeling Tea's tea is lighter in color, especially in spring picking, its tea color is almost attractive golden yellow, but can this be regarded as black tea?

However, the tea history of foreigners is different from that of tea culture, and the tea history and tea culture of Chinese are different, even the thinking of both sides is very different.

The tea that the Chinese come into contact with is diverse and each has different flavors. The Chinese classify tea with six major tea families and distinguish them according to the color of tea stem, tea soup and production methods.

However, most of the tea recognized and touched by Western culture at the beginning belong to two categories: green tea and black tea.

Let's not discuss how the later tea-making process technology is transferred, at first, as long as it conforms to the black tea production process, such as Darjeeling, the tea produced in this area belongs to black tea in the western cultural definition. In other words, Westerners do not care about the color of Darjeeling Tea's tea and the degree of fermentation and oxidation.

You know, different degrees of fermentation and oxidation will result in different colors of dried tea.

On the other hand, Chinese-style green tea has a variety of colors, not pure green.

The same is true of Darjeeling Tea. Darjeeling Tea's tea is even more colorful, from green to red and black.

In ancient China, in the eastern world, green tea was more common and prosperous, but it was easy to move in the process of long-term transportation. At that time, black tea was inferior.

In the era of great maritime trade in the past, Chinese businessmen sold black tea to foreigners and claimed to be the best tea!

However, due to the hard water quality and too many minerals in Europe, the green tea bud tip is fresh and tender, but it is suitable to use thick, charred, fermented black tea.

However, because the black tea in hard water is also bad, it is spawned to add sugar, dried fruit, milk and other things to make the tea easier to taste and more fragrant.

Therefore, the culture of drinking tea and fragrant tea has been formed. So much so that the positioning of tea in Western culture should be as thick and suitable for tea with milk and sugar, rather than a single drink of tea directly.

At that time, the trend of tea in the western world, led by the Netherlands and Britain, blindly relied on imports from China, and the British East India Company sent plant hunters to study Fujian tea and learned the tea-making technology, which also continued some Chinese traditions. then breed tea plants from China to Darjeeling, and localize the cloned species of tea trees.

After more than a hundred years since the 19th century, they have already developed a set of local experience and knowledge in Darjeeling, that is, local knowledge.

In Darjeeling, black tea is defined as black tea as long as it is finished according to the standard production process of black tea, from picking, drying (depending on the manor), withering, re-kneading, drying, regardless of the weight of the finished product fermentation, the process is appropriate.

Coupled with the manor-like management thinking, from the tea garden management quality of picking, screening, grading, each stage will have experience to assess whether the process or sanitary conditions meet the standards.

This idea can be traced back to British industrialization. After the Industrial Revolution, everything was a commodity as long as it was produced according to certain specifications and rules.

But China is different. Tea is like a work of art in China. The master's income skills determine the presentation of the work, not necessarily according to a set of rules.

For example, manor black tea, only Chinese people would say that it is not fermented enough like oolong tea, but in the western view, as long as it is finished in accordance with the standard process of industrialization, it can be seen that the standards and definitions of tea in China and the West are different.

Darjeeling black tea, is black tea.