Why can't green tea and white tea be mixed together? There are seven reasons, reading knowledge.

It seems that young people do not like tea very much. Compared with light tea, those carbonated drinks can stimulate the central nervous system of young people more, just as they call carbonated drinks "fat house happy water", which can bring them happiness.

It is one-sided to say that young people don't like tea because carbonated drinks "win love in a horizontal knife".

Instead of complaining, we may have to find the reason from the tea itself.

Many young people always complain that they can't drink tea, and drinking tea is too difficult. The tea culture is splendid and the history of tea is thick. I have no idea where to learn, and I have no confidence. Sensory can't.

Indeed, it is not easy for newcomers to get started quickly, let alone master it.

So the question is, how difficult is it to drink tea? Cha Sheng Lu Yu's "drinking tea" recorded in "The Book of Tea" thinks:

Lu Yu believes that there are nine difficulties in drinking tea:

Some tea leaves grow in a bad environment and are not easy to pick. Picking tea is not easy.

You have to have the ability to distinguish good tea from bad tea, and you have to work hard to gain the ability to distinguish tea.

Understand that different teas need different tea sets. For example, making white tea is not suitable for sharing a teapot.

There was no induction cooker in ancient times. It used to be a technical job to make a fire and master the temperature.

Pay attention to the water for making tea. Tea soup will taste better if the water quality is good. At that time, Lu Yu didn't go around looking for a good water source, so it was very important to choose water.

That is, the tea-making process, and baking tea is an ancient drying process. If you are not good at studying, it is easy to burn tea.

The way of making tea in the past is different from that in modern times. People in the Tang Dynasty like to make tea cakes from tea leaves, then grind them into powder and pour them into a pot to cook.

Lu Yu put forward the viewpoint of "three boiling points" in Tea Classic, which is one of the secrets of making good tea.

After eight difficulties, I came to the last one. Drinking tea is not a bull drink, but an understanding of tea rhyme. Want to be inspired in the process of drinking tea. How can I get inspiration? It is really not easy to rise from tea ceremony to tea ceremony.

The tea-making environment in ancient times was not good. Without the help of advanced equipment, tea is basically made by hand, which is quite difficult. Now that technology is more developed, it is much easier to make tea or make tea. We don't have to worry about starting a fire, just use electronic equipment to control the temperature.

Compared with the ancients, we are very happy, and the process of drinking tea saves a lot of "difficult things".

But for young people, learning to drink tea is too difficult and boring. This "blandness" is manifested in the profound knowledge of tea, the complicated steps of making tea, the single taste of tea and no irritation.

The main reason is that the taste of tea is not irritating, which is the biggest problem that puzzles young people to learn to drink tea.

Einstein said a word:

Young people don't like the taste of tea and are not interested in it, so naturally they can't devote themselves to learning tea.

To solve the problem, the solution is actually very simple. You have to make the taste of tea interesting. When the taste of tea is rich, young people will naturally become interested.

Someone once threw out such an interesting idea, can different teas be mixed and soaked? For example, whether green tea and white tea can be mixed and brewed. I think the person who raised this question must be a young man who is full of vigor and likes novelty and excitement.

For the traditional concept of drinking tea, young people seem to be more keen on innovation and change, but is this alternative way of drinking tea feasible?

There are many kinds of teas in China. In 1970s and 1980s, Professor Qiu Chen, a master tea maker, divided tea into six categories according to the different processing technologies, namely green tea, white tea, yellow tea, green tea, black tea and black tea. Besides the six teas, there are also scented teas.

This kind of "6+ 1" tea has its own characteristics.

Green tea is a kind of non-fermented tea, which is made by the processes of enzyme fixation, rolling and drying. Traditional green tea includes Longjing, Biluochun, Luan Guapian, Taiping Monkey Kui and so on. White tea belongs to micro-fermented tea, and its main process is withering and drying. The main representative teas are Fuding White Tea, Zhenghe White Tea.

So can we mix two different types of tea, green tea and white tea?

The answer is that it is best not to do this for the following seven reasons.

0 1

As mentioned earlier, the technology of white tea and green tea is different.

The process of green tea inactivation is mainly to destroy the oxidase activity in fresh leaves through high temperature and prevent the tea polyphenols in fresh leaves from being oxidized by enzyme. The withering process of white tea is mainly that many people do not interfere and do not destroy the cell structure of fresh leaves. The withering process is a natural dehydration phenomenon of fresh leaves of white tea, which moderately promotes the activity of enzymes in fresh leaves.

Green tea is non-fermented tea, while white tea is slightly fermented tea, so the degree of fermentation is different. Due to different technologies, there are great differences in appearance, taste and efficacy between white tea and green tea.

02

Because of enzyme fixation, green tea retains a lot of natural substances, such as tea polyphenols, catechins and chlorophyll, and because of chlorophyll, most green tea is a pair of "green clothes". Green tea is not only green in color, but also green in tea soup and leaves.

There are four kinds of white tea, namely Baihao Yinzhen, Bai Mudan, Gongmei and Shoumei. The color of Yinzhen dry tea is silvery white, the color of Bai Mudan is grayish green, and the longevity eyebrows are green or dark green. If you forcibly mix and brew (green tea and silver needle are brewed together), the taste will not be mentioned first. Just looking at the white and green colors in the cup, I always feel out of harmony.

The soup color of green tea is generally green and clear, while the soup color of white tea is generally pale yellow or apricot yellow, which is also translucent. Generally speaking, the soup colors of green tea and white tea are similar.

But what if green tea and black tea are brewed together? As we all know, the soup color of black tea is red, while the soup color of green tea is green. According to the principle of three primary colors, red and green produce yellow. However, there is a prerequisite for producing yellow, that is, the proportion of red and green is exactly the same. Obviously, the color of tea soup can't be as accurate as the color light, so more often, tea soup will become turbid.

03

Green tea is mainly fragrant, chestnut, pot and covered, while white tea is mainly fragrant and floral. However, the green grass flavor in green tea will be heavier than that in white tea, the main reason may be that some green teas are not done well in the process of enzyme fixation.

The scents of green tea and white tea are different, and the scents of the two teas collide. We can't guarantee that everyone will like the taste. Just like we can't mix sugar water with salt water. These two tea families have their own characteristics and unique tastes. It's a waste to drink together.

04

Green tea does not ferment, so it tastes fresh and refreshing (green tea has a strong fragrance, such as sweet, mellow and refreshing). Green tea gives people an active feeling, but it has a strong convergence.

The taste of white tea is also very fresh, but the taste of white tea is fresh and soft, and the sense of convergence is not strong. Similarly, if you drink together, will the tea soup that is not convergent become a sense of convergence?

I could have enjoyed two flavors, but I ended up drinking this "strange" tea flavor.

05

Green tea has the functions of refreshing, diuresis and fatigue elimination, while white tea has the functions of clearing away heat and reducing fire, clearing away heat and moistening lung, calming the liver and nourishing blood. The pharmacological effects are different and should not be mixed.

06

Green tea is raw and cold. Like some elderly friends, friends with bad stomachs and friends with weak constitution, it is not advisable to drink a lot of green tea.

Tea properties of white tea can be divided into two types:

Therefore, it is suitable to drink new white tea in summer, which can remove fire and prevent heatstroke, while old white tea is very suitable for old friends to drink.

Green tea and white tea have different tea properties and should not be mixed.

07

Speaking of the phenomenon of tea drunkenness, I am afraid that many experienced tea lovers will not feel strange. When you drink a lot or different types of tea, you will feel uncomfortable, listless and a little drunk. This is the phenomenon of tea drunkenness.

Why are you drunk?

This is caused by theophylline.

There are more theophylline substances in green tea, and the theophylline content in white tea will be less than that in green tea, but if mixed together, it will be easier to get drunk. It is worth mentioning that tea tasting experts only take a sip when trying tea.

Because the judges have to drink a lot of tea, if each tea sample has to take a big sip, it is estimated that they will be "drunk" later, which will affect the next evaluation work. Moreover, don't underestimate a sip, good tea is bad tea, just take a sip and you will know.

The taste of tea can influence each other. Some teas are sweet and some are bitter. Some teas are weak, while others are mellow. Tea tastes different, and the experience is naturally different. I'm afraid we will lose a lot of fun if we mix them together and turn them into a taste.

In short, there are many differences between green tea and white tea. I'm afraid both kinds of tea can't taste good together, and it's easy to get drunk (the premise of getting drunk is that you drink a lot of tea), so drinking two kinds of tea together is not recommended.

Although it is not appropriate to mix and drink, it is not bad to stick to it.

However, mixed drinking is conditional, or if you do it in the following three ways, then mixed drinking will be quite good.

You can add a small amount of white tea to green tea, or you can add a small amount of green tea to white tea.

In this way, neither green tea nor white tea will affect the taste of another tea, but it can be used as a "icing on the cake" to "make the finishing point" and sublimate the tea soup without affecting the taste of the tea soup.

In the tea industry, we can call it "preparation", and there are still traces to follow.

Why are there several? It turned out that the output of Fuding white tea was limited at that time, and it was all handmade tea. White tea depended on the weather to eat, and the production capacity was unstable. Silver needles became a hot commodity abroad. After all, the quantity is good, and the British can only put a few pieces in.

In other words, it is feasible to mix two kinds of tea together, but it is only required that the other kind of tea must be small, very small, which can only play the role of ornament and cannot pretend to be the owner.

For example, you can mix green tea with jasmine tea.

Scented tea itself is made of tea leaves and flower buds. For example, jasmine tea is the finished tea made of green tea and jasmine. If you mix green tea with jasmine tea, it generally has little effect, except that green tea tastes heavier.

And we can also make some scented tea ourselves, such as lotus flower tea.

We just need to dry the lotus leaves and brew them with green tea and yellow tea. You can not only enjoy the taste of green tea, but also get the effect of lotus leaf, so you can have your cake and eat it.

You can find two similar teas.

(1), and the degree of fermentation is similar.

For example, like green tea and yellow tea, green tea is non-fermented tea and yellow tea is slightly fermented tea, and the degree of fermentation between the two will not be much different.

(2) The process is similar.

Moreover, in terms of technology, yellow tea is just one more "stuffy yellow" process than green tea, so the two are similar and can be mixed and drunk. Of course, it is best not to have too many of them.

Green tea and white tea can also be matched, and it is enough to master the way of "one more and one less". Black tea and black tea are highly fermented teas. Theoretically, it is ok to mix some.

(3) The properties of tea are similar.

The similarity between the two is also reflected in the attributes of tea. It is better to mix teas with similar tea properties than to mix teas with different tea properties.

So what are these six teas?

(4) Similar in appearance and connotation

We can choose the mixed object according to the tea properties mentioned above, because if the tea properties are different, we are afraid of mutual influence. The nature of tea is similar, and the impact will be less. In addition, similarity can also be expressed in appearance and connotation, and the connotation of tea mainly includes aroma, soup color, taste and leaf bottom. In a word, the more similar the two teas are, the better.

To sum up, two different teas should not be mixed. But nothing is absolute, just meet the above three conditions. After all, drinking tea is your own business, as long as you don't dislike it and feel uncomfortable.

In fact, it can be seen from the "mixed bubble" incident that young people's concept is to pursue innovation. They like to endow traditional culture with novel elements to show their individuality.

However, the pursuit of innovation does not mean that tradition can be completely overthrown. We should not innovate for the sake of innovation, but rationally, and even more, we should take its essence and discard its dross, innovate on the basis of inheriting excellent traditional culture and innovate according to the actual situation.

Without excellent traditional culture as the foundation, innovation is a castle in the air.

Furthermore, we should ask ourselves, what is the purpose of innovation?

The purpose of our innovation is to get better experience and more practical use. If the mixing experience is not good and the effect is not good, then we don't have to do it deliberately to show strangeness.