Famous Chinese Green Tea


Green Tea is the most natural of all Chinese tea classes. It's picked, natural dried, and then fried briefly (a process called "killing the green") to get rid of its grassy smell. Green Tea has the most medical value and the least caffeine content of all Chinese tea classes. Aroma is medium to high, flavor is light to medium. About 50% of China's teas are Green tea. Here lists the best Chinese green ten as below:

Top Chinese Green Tea

Biluochun Tea Longjing Tea Huangshan Maofeng Tea
Luan Guapian Tea Xinyang Maojian Tea Lushan Yunwu tea
Guzhang Maojian Tea Junshan Yinzhen Tea Weishan MaojianTea

More Green Tea in China

No. 10: Duyun Maojian Tea
Chinese name: 都匀毛尖(du yun mao jian)
Type: green tea
Planting region: Duyun City, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, southwest China

It is one of the three famous tea in Duyun city. The shape of the tea is tight and fine curly. The blade surface is jade green and the dark side is even and bright. Its fragrance can be smelt from far away. The taste is fresh and thick. It can be used to quench thirst, clear eyes, remiss greasy, promote digestion and inhibit atherosclerosis.


No.11: Emei Zhuyeqing Tea
Chinese name: 峨眉竹叶青 (e mei zhu ye qing)
Growing area: Mt. Emei, Leshan City, Sichuan Province
Benefits: detoxicating, anti-microbial, refresh thirst, nourish skin, delay aging

Because of the unique climate, geographical environment, Emei Mountain gives birth to a unique type of tea - Zhuyeqing. It is processed from buds only, which is flat and straight with rich white pekoe on the surface. The tea soup is yellow green, clear and fragrant.


No.12:  Monkey Chief Tea
Chinese name:  太平猴魁(Tai ping hou kui)
Growing area: Taiping County, present Huangshan District, Huangshan  City, Anhui Province
Benefits: detoxicating, anti-microbial, lose weight, nourish skin…

This is another famous Chinese green tea growing in Huangshan City. Monkey Chief Tea has a unique shape, with two leaves wrapping a bud. The tea leaves are flat straight and of dark green color. After brewing, tea soup is very green and clear, and has long-lasting fragrance. Monkey Chief Tea of high quality possesses orchid fragrance, with fresh, sweet and mellow taste.

No.13: Anji White Tea 
Chinese name:  安吉白茶(Anji Bai Cha)
Growing area: Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Benefits: lose weight, delay aging, prevent cancer…

Though Anji White Tea has a “white” in its name, it has nothing to do with the white tea but the authentic green tea. It is so called in that there is rich white pekoe covering the emerald green leaves. The tea soup is light yellow with fresh aroma. Anji white tea tree is kind of mutant tea tree, and the spring tea leaves are of white color while the leaves in summer become green due to climate change.


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