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The other day, my colleague gifted me a rare cake of dianhong tea as a late Christmas gift. Full of pleasant plum tartness with a light golden syrup sweetness and a good amount of hickory woodiness, the flavor became more even as I continued to steep it.

Reprocessed tea refers to tea that is reprocessed by certain means using the six basic tea types as raw materials. It mainly includes scented tea, pressed tea, extracted tea, fruity tea, medicinal health tea and tea-containing beverages.

Scented tea is also known as smoked flower tea, fragrant flower tea, and fragrant tablets. It is made from green tea, black tea, oolong tea and edible and fragrant flowers as raw materials, and is made by a cellar-making process. In fact, the practice of adding spices or fragrant flowers to tea has been around since ancient times, and it is an original creation in China. Cai Xiang of the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned spiced tea in "Tea Records": "Tea has a real fragrance, and those who pay tribute slightly use borneol and ointment to help its fragrance." Shi Yue's "Buyue·Jasmine" lyrics in the Southern Song Dynasty It records the history of using jasmine hojicha at that time: "It was produced by Caililing table...the ancients used this flower to melt tea." According to the records in "Tea Book" written by Gu Yuanqing in the Ming Dynasty, the flower that could be used for tea making at that time was osmanthus. , jasmine, rose, rose, orchid, gardenia, woodsy, plum blossom and more than ten kinds, and the production technology of scented tea has basically matured.

During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty (1851-1861), people began to make scented tea on a large scale. By the 1890s, the production of scented tea was very common. Now, the types of scented tea are more abundant than before, and new varieties such as chrysanthemum tea, nasturtium tea, lily tea, thousand day black tea, lantern flower tea, roselle tea, white orchid tea, and pearl orchid tea have appeared.

According to the variety of flowers used, scented tea can be generally divided into sub-categories such as jasmine tea, magnolia tea, pearl orchid tea, etc. Each sub-category is divided into special grade, first-grade, first-grade, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5, Level 6 (some do not have Level 6). The basic process of scented tea is: tea blank refire, flower base, smoked and combined, through flower heat dissipation, blooming, refire, jacquard, uniform stacking and boxing, etc. Scented tea is loved by people for its fragrant aroma, health care and long-lasting storage.

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