Cha (commonly known as tea and vegetables) from the picking down to the blanching During this period, wilt in the sun (or hot air wilt), "Indoor wilt and stirring" and so the process of fermentation has been going on, in order to fit around the habits may be non-fermented green tea is divided into classes, semi-fermented green tea fermentation class, and fully fermented black tea class, fully fermented black tea.

Tea fermentation degree of severity is not absolute, and when there is a small margin of error, according to their degree of fermentation about 95% of the fermented black tea, yellow tea, 85% of the fermentation, 80% fermented black tea, oolong tea 60 ~ 70% of the fermentation, Pouchong

30 ~ 40% of the fermentation, 15 ~ 20% green tea fermentation, white tea is about 5 ~ 10% fermented, green tea is not fermented completely. The Tippy is not fermented and the green tea, green tea's anti-Tang HUANG some fermentation.

A more general classification of international law, is based on non-fermented tea, semi-fermented tea, fully fermented tea, fermented tea to make a simple sort.

1. Fermented tea (scientific name: Green tea category):

Longjing, Biluochun, they agree to anything shrimp heads (also known as bead buds), Gunpowder, eyebrow tea, green tea, brewing tea and general.

2. Semi-fermented tea (part of the fermented tea) (scientific name: green tea category):

a. light-fermented tea (also known as "Pouchong Class"): white tea, Pouchong (tea), Ilan package types, Nankang pack species, scented tea, Matilda tea, frozen top tea, aging tea, iron Kuanyin, Wuyi, narcissus.

b. re-fermented tea: Oolong tea.

Note: commonly known as semi-fermented tea as "Oolong tea." Real "oolong" is the Oriental Beauty Tea, or Oolong Tea Pekoe, or also known as Ponkan and tea, oolong tea, however, a matter of fact all the others are known as the confusion.

3. Fully fermented tea (scientific name: Black tea category):

According to Variety points: lobular kinds of black tea, Assam tea (large-leafed species)

According to shape,: strip black tea, black tea and general tea fractal.

4, post-fermentation tea: (scientific name: Black Tea)

Pu'er tea: Pu'er tea processing is part of its former practice of non-fermented tea, and then by Ottawa and made post-fermentation reactor, which is part of Black Tea.