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Pu-erh Tea Knowledge

The difference between raw pu-erh tea and ripe pu-erh tea

	Raw pu-erh tea (Green)	Ripe pu-erh tea (Black)
Appearance	The main color of raw pu-erh tea is green or dark green. Some of them are red and yellow. White of them are Bud.	The main color of ripe pu-erh tea is black or reddish-brown. Some bud are dark golden. It have a strong taste of ottawa heap similar to moldy. The light ferment have a taste like longyan, and the deep ferment have a taste of stuffy wet straw mat.
Production process	Picking fresh leaves ->Fixation->Rolling the tea leaves->Sunning. So the tea leaves become loose pu-erh tea alao named "green Maocha by sun". After the loose tea been high-temperature steam, put it into the mold. And then shine it to be pressed tea cake or Brick or tuo cha.	Picking fresh leaves ->fixation->Rolling the tea leaves->Sunning. So the tea leaves become loose pu-erh tea alao named "green Maocha by sun". After the loose tea been ferment quickily, sprinkler ottawa heap, it become the loose ripe pu-erh tea. And then put it into the mold to be steamed, the pressed ripe pu-erh tea is producted.
Taste	The taste is strong.The tea aroma is full. The tea soupe is fragrance, bitter and with astringent. Good tea is bitter and can return to sweet, astringent can return to fluid.	It is thick and sweet, and it is almost not bitter (expect Half-cooked). And it is smooth and rich mellow (New tea have slightly taste of heap).
Tea soup	Clear yellow or golden yellow. It is brighter.	Chestnut red or dark red. It is micro-translucent.
Tea leaves outlay	The main color of tea leaves is yellow-green or dark green. High activity, softer.Variegated, bars and stylish. Expand the leaves outlay can be the entire leaf shape is good tea.(It is not the primary,there are difference according to different tea type and origin)	The tea leaves after light pile-fermented is reddish brown, and not flexible. The tea leaves after deep pile-fermented is dark brown or black,and thery are stiff and broke easily.
Health benefits	It contains a large amount of polyphenols. It is very good drinks to anti-cancer. It is very nice for you to drink pu-erh duiring the day. You will be very clear-headed and fell aclear sense of your whole body. It also good for vascular.	A healthy benefits on loss weight.The light pile-fermented tea contains a large number of beneficial bacteria which is very good for stomach. The deep pile-fermented pu-erh tea is warm for woman.
Related tea	Xia Guan Tuo Cha, Gao Li Gong Shan Tuo Cha, Feng Huang Tuo Cha, Da Hei Shan Cake	Menghai Da Ye, Jin Fan Cake, Haiwan Chen Xiang Zhuan Cha

How to pry Pu-erh tea properly?

The way for you to pry and lossen the Pu-erh tea.

Many new Pu-erh tea drinker have the same question: How to pry Pu-erh cake? Which is the best way to pry the tea?

ChineseTeaArt suggest you to use the tea-pin to pry the pu-erh tea. Beacuse the tea-pin is sharp. Pinpoint of the tea-pin can pry the Pu-erh tea easily. The best direction for you is pry the tea from the back. First, it is very safe for you. It don't have any risk to hurt your hand. Second, it is very convenient for you to pry the tea next time.

The right way to pry pu-erh tea

There are three wrong way to pry the tea:

1. It have much risk for you to hurt your hand.

2. Pry the tea from the front. It have much risk for you to hurt your hand and it is hard for you to pry it next time.

3. It is hard for you to pry the tea nex time and have risk to hurt yourself.

How to brewing pu-erh tea with covered bowl (GaiWan)?

1. Rinse the GaiWan

Rinse the GaiWan with hot water that have the high-temperature sterilization effect. It also can rise the temperature of the tea cup to make the tea exudation easily.

2. Put the pu-erh tea in the GaiWan

Put in about 5g (25ct) pu-erh. According to your personal habits, you can use differnt weight.

3. Wash the pu-erh tea

Pour the boiling water to the GaiWan, keep 2 second and then pour the water out for washing the fair cup and the tea cups. Wash the tea can clean and wake the pu-erh tea.

4. Stuffy tea

Pour the boiling water to the GaiWan again and then cover the GaiWan for 5s.It will make the tea tasteful.

5. Tea soup

Put the tea funnel on the fair cup, and then pour the tea from GaiWan to the fair cup. The tea funnel will filter the tea leaf from the tea soup.

6. Divide tea

Pour the brewed tea from the fair cup into each teacup equally to enjoy with your friends.

If you think the brewing way with GaiWan is too troubled, you can use the elegant cup for brewing. It is quite convenient.

How to brewing pu-erh tea with the elegant cup?

1. Rinse the elegant cup

Rinse the elegant cup with hot water which have the high-temperature sterilization effect. It also can rise the temperature of the tea cup to make the tea exudation easily.

2. Put the pu-erh tea in the elegant cup

Put about 5g (25ct) pu-er in the elegant cup. According to your personal habits, you can put differnt weight.

3. Wash the pu-erh tea

Pour the boiling water to the elegant cup, keep 2 second and then pour the water out for washing tea cups. Wash the tea can clean and wake the pu-erh tea.