Is it better to drink raw or cooked Pu 'er tea? What is the difference?

Difference:

1. Pu 'er raw tea refers to all kinds of pressed tea made from sun-dried raw tea and stored in a dry and ventilated place, but has not been transformed (without fermentation process). Cooked tea refers to sun-dried green tea as raw material, which artificially shortens the transformation time through accumulation and fermentation.

Raw tea tastes bitter and astringent. Taste of cooked tea: The taste of cooked tea is sweet and pure, and the soup color changes from golden yellow to chestnut red and brown.

3. Raw tea is more exciting and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Cooked tea is mild and not easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.

Extended data:

The historical development of Pu 'er tea is divided into several stages:

The first stage (Tang and Song Dynasties)

The Central Plains has entered the stage of cake tea, and Yunnan Pu 'er tea is in the free development period of the method of scattered collection and non-collection.

The second stage (Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties)

The tea culture in the Central Plains has undergone great changes under the will of Ming Taizu, but the production of Pu 'er tea has developed faster, because the main consumers are ethnic minorities in the border areas and the need of long-distance transportation (entering Tibet).

As Pu 'er tea was favored by the Qing court because of its tribute, it entered the heyday of development, which was a real geographical Pu 'er tea stage.

The third stage (since the late Qing Dynasty)

That is, the stage of modern Pu 'er tea. Modern Pu 'er tea processing technology has sprouted, and the social pattern of diversified tea production has emerged. Since the late Qing Dynasty, Pu 'er tea in the traditional historical and geographical sense has withdrawn from the historical stage because,

First, since the late Qing Dynasty, Pu 'er has gradually lost its position as a tea processing and distribution center. With the change of administrative divisions, the original Pu 'er tea area is divided into Simao, Mengla, Menghai and Jinghong tea areas, and the tea is no longer labeled as Pu 'er.

Second, with the progress of processing technology, the tea in the original Pu 'er tea area has become diversified, including black tea, baked green tea, sun-dried green tea and fried green tea. Third, the ancient Pu 'er tea mountain gradually declined and was replaced by the new tea area.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-raw puer

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Puer Cooked Tea