Black tea (dark tea) is named after the black appearance of the finished tea. It is one of the six major tea groups and is a post-fermented tea. The main production areas are Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi and Anhui. The traditional black tea is made from high maturity black wool tea, which is the main raw material for pressing tightly pressed tea.
The process of making black tea generally includes four steps: killing, kneading, stacking and drying. Black tea is mainly classified as Hunan black tea (Fu tea, Qianliang tea, black brick tea, Tri-tip, etc.), Hubei green brick tea, Sichuan Tibetan tea (border tea), Anhui Gu Yi black tea (An tea), Yunnan black tea (Pu'er tea), Guangxi Liubao tea and Shaanxi black tea (Fu tea) according to geographical distribution.
The yellow powder in black tea is commonly known as golden flower, a beneficial microorganism, the so-called golden flower, is in the processing of raw materials through the flowering of this special procedure, specifically in the black tea bricks to cultivate a kind of coronary aspergillus substance called coronary scattered cystic bacteria, commonly known as the golden flower, observed under the microscope, each individual golden flower is umbrella-shaped clusters, the whole body is golden and eye-catching, ringed into a group, evenly distributed.
