Black Tea

Black tea is originated from Xishuangbanna, YunNan Province of Guizhou, southwest China. Black tea is called "Red tea" in China. The tea's name is influenced by Chinese culture and describes the colour of the liquid. Black tea can retain a long time even in several months. For this reason, it has long been an article of trade and compressed bricks of black tea.

Black tea is very popular in western countries and over ninety percent of all tea sold in the West. Most westerners like to black tea because it has a lot of benefits. Black tea is a variety of tea that is more oxidized than the oolong, green, and white varieties. Black tea is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than the less oxidized teas. Black tea have many health benefits such as anti-inflammatory, detoxification (absorb heavy metals and alkaloid), raise a stomach, resisting oxidation, tumor and radiation. Black tea is also known as "Congou" in the international tea trade business. The name Congou is actually taken from the Chinese term GongFu or Kung-Fu.

Today, black tea is planted a lot and mainly distributed in AnHui, YunNan, GuangZhou, SiChuan province. The name of QiMen and DianHong are very famous in China and overseas.

There are some methods to identify the black tea. High quality of tea's leaves look tight, slim, flat handsome and its color looks glossy black and golden yellow point bud. Black tea's liquid smells sweet aroma and looks charming red color, golden color on the bowl edge. It tastes a strong flavor, fresh and sweet. The spent of tea leaves look bright red and evenly.chinesetea-shop