Is Dahongpao black tea? When is the harvest season for both?

Is Dahongpao black tea? Presumably many people are not clear, let's take a look at the truth, by the way to see when the picking season of Dahongpao and black tea.

Is ► Dahongpao black tea?

Many tea friends who have just come into contact with tea must have made a mistake, that is, Dahongpao belongs to a kind of black tea. In fact, although Dahongpao and black tea grow in the same place in Wuyi Mountain, Dahongpao belongs to oolong tea, which is the green tea of the six major tea categories.

The growing area of Dahongpao is limited to Wuyishan City in northern Fujian and belongs to semi-fermented tea.

Black tea is a kind of fully fermented tea, which is refined by a series of technological processes, such as withering, kneading (cutting), fermentation, drying and so on. Black tea is widely distributed, such as "Keemun Black Tea", Yunnan "Dianhong" and so on.

Picking season of ► Dahongpao

The best quality tea of Dahongpao was picked before and after the Beginning of Summer, followed by second spring, third spring and winter tea, with the quality from high to low. Specifically:

Spring tea is usually picked best after Grain Rain and before the Beginning of Summer.

Summer tea: usually before the Summer Solstice

Autumn tea: usually after the Beginning of Autumn.

Experienced tea farmers pick tea at 9-11:00 in the morning. These are all in order to pick tea with moderate tenderness, only in this way can the aroma of tea be fragrant. Generally speaking, if the weather is fine on the picking day, the quality of the tea is high.

The picking season of ► black tea

The picking time of black tea is around Qingming Festival, among which Mingqian tea is the best, but the yield is less and there are many limiting factors. The quality also declined with the passage of time after the Qingming Festival.

The main varieties of Chinese black tea are: Rizhao black tea, Qi Hong, Zhaopinghong, Huo Hong, Yunnan Hong, Yuehong, Quancheng red, Quancheng green, Su Hong, Chuanhong, Yinghong, Dongjiang Chu Yunxian black tea, etc., especially Keemun Black Tea is the most famous.

The picking time of Keemun Black Tea spring tea is from around Qingming Festival to Grain Rain every year, and the picking time of Keemun Black Tea summer tea is from June to August, so we should pay attention to the climate before and after picking. The cloudy and rainy weather will affect the quality of the tea, and the tea grows rapidly the other night.