White tea is a micro-fermented tea, and green tea, yellow tea, green tea, black tea, black tea belongs to the same level of relationship, they are known as “China’s six major types of tea”.
White tea is a separate category. According to the degree of fermentation, green tea is unfermented, black tea is fully fermented, black tea is post-fermented, and white tea is slightly fermented. According to the process, green tea needs to be killed, black tea needs to be fermented, black tea needs to be post-fermented, while white tea is about no frying, no kneading, no killing. From all aspects, white tea and other five types of tea are different, can not be arbitrarily categorized.
In the six tea categories, white tea tea production process is the most simple, traditional white tea production process, tea green leaves picked, do not need to go through the frying and kneading, only need to go through the natural withering and drying process, can be completed. Under the simple tea-making process, a large number of slender white hairs on the white tea buds and leaves are retained intact, giving it the appearance of intact buds and hairs, characterized by dense white hairs.