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What is Black Tea?
Black tea, as completely fermented tea, uses sprouts picked from tee trees in season, which go through a series of processes including withering, rolling, fermentation and drying before being brewed. Withering is an important process in the preliminary stage, when black tea is called “dark tea”. The name black tea is named after the dark red color of tea infusion and leaf base color after brewing. There is a wide variety of black tea, including Rizhao Black Tea, Keemun Black Tea, Zhongping Black Tea, Huohong Black Tea, Yunnan Black Tea, Yuehong Black Tea, Quancheng Black Tea, Suhong Black Tea, Chuanhong Black Tea, Yinghong Black Tea and Dongjiang Chuyunxian Black Tea.
Black Tea Benefits
Black has medical effects on aiding digestion, stimulating appetite, inducing diuresis, eliminating edema and strengthening heart functions. Black tea is rich in flavonoids compounds which can eliminate free radicals, thus resisting acidification and lowering morbidity of myocardial infarction. It is believed in traditional Chinese medicine that there are cold teas and hot teas. For example, green tea belongs to cold tea, suitable for drinking in summer (depending on individual constitutions of individuals) to relieve summer heat. Black tea and Pu’er tea belong to hot tea, suitable for drinking in winter. As for neutral tea, there are Oolong tea and TieGuanYin.
Black Tea Taboos
1. Not suitable for people suffering lithiasis and cancer. Generally, lithiasis patients cannot have black tea.
2. Not suitable for people suffering anemia, psychasthenia and insomnia. Drinking black tea can keep people’s mind refreshed, thus aggravating insomnia.
3. Not suitable for people who can easily get emotional or sensitive and those in poor health and physical weakness. It is because black tea has a good effect on refreshing.
4. Not suitable for people suffering stomach heat. It is because as a warm tea, black tea can warm stomach.
5. Not suitable for people with thick libngual fur and halitosis and those that easily have acnes and red eyes. People that can easily get inflamed should not have black tea, due to its nature of being warm.
6. It is not suitable for people taking any medicine, because black tea will cause damage to pesticide effectiveness.
7. It is not suitable for females in menstrual period, because menstruation consumes a large amount of ferrum in body and tannic acid in black tea hinders absorption of ferrum in food.
8. It is not suitable for pregnant women, because caffeine in black tea adds more burden to heart and kidney of pregnant women and causes discomfort to them.
9. It is not suitable for lactating women, because tannic acid in black tea influences blood circulation in breasts, thus inhibiting secretion of breast milk and influencing nursing quality.
10. It is not suitable for menopausal women, because tea polyphenol in black tea may cause strong heart beating, poor sleep and others in menopause.
Assam black tea is brewed with tea leaves originating in Northeast India, which are thin and flat and in dark brown. The tea infusion is dark red and a little bit brown, sending out a faint fragrance of malt and rose, but tasting strong. It is the best choice for a tea drinking in winter.
Assam tea is a black tea produced in northeastern India. The soup of the tea is dark red and slightly brown and its shape is thin and flat. Assam tea is the best choice in winter with a light malt and rose aroma, and a strong taste.
Dark tea is a kind of post-fermented tea, which is unique to China. It has a long history and is mainly produced in Hunan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi. Dark tea takes a long time to ferment during the production process, the leaf color becomes black, so it is called dark tea.
Darjeeling tea is a kind of black tea produced in Darjeeling, India. Darjeeling tea is highly appreciated due to its light golden luster and muscat grape-like flavor after brewing. Darjeeling is a town located on the slope of beautiful Himalayas, with an altitude of 7000 feet.
Ceylon black tea, produced in Sri Lanka, is a collective term. It’s also called “Xileng Black Tea” and “Xilan Black Tea”. The name is derived from the pronunciation of Ceylon in English, which is directly transliterated. The best Tingbula tea and Nuwara Eliya tea, produced in the mountainous area, are those harvested from January to March due to the influence of the southwest monsoon rain in summer (May-August).