Oolong, the Glossary
Oolong (("dark dragon" tea) is a traditional semi-oxidized Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced through a process that includes withering the leaves under strong sun and allowing some oxidation to occur before curling and twisting.Zhongguo Chajing pp. 222–234, 271–282, 419–412, chief editor: Chen Zhongmao, publisher: Shanghai Wenhua Chubanshe (Shanghai Cultural Publishers) 1991.[1]
Table of Contents
53 relations: Alishan National Scenic Area, Anxi County, Apartment Therapy, Assam tea, Bai Jiguan tea, Baozhong tea, Black tea, Caffeine, Cambridge University Press, Camellia sinensis, Chiayi County, Chinese tea, Chinese tea culture, Cultivar, Da Hong Pao, Darjeeling, Darjeeling tea, Dayuling, Dong Ding tea, Dongfang meiren, Flavonoid, Food browning, Fujian, Gaiwan, Ghrelin, Glycoside, Gongfu tea, High-mountain tea, Huangjin Gui, Jin Xuan tea, List of Chinese teas, Nanping, Nantou County, Pinglin District, Quanzhou, Rougui tea, Ruan zhi, Serious Eats, Shui Jin Gui tea, Shui Xian, Si Da Ming Cong tea, Spice, Taipei, Taiwan, Tea, Tea processing, Teaghrelins, Teochew cuisine, Terroir, Tieguanyin, ... Expand index (3 more) »
- Chinese tea
- Oolong tea
Alishan National Scenic Area
The Alishan National Scenic Area is a mountain resort and nature reserve located in Alishan township, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
See Oolong and Alishan National Scenic Area
Anxi County
() is a county of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China.
Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy is a lifestyle blog and publishing company focused on home design and decor.
See Oolong and Apartment Therapy
Assam tea
Assam tea is a black tea named after Assam, India, the region of its production.
Bai Jiguan tea
Bai Ji Guan or Bai Jiguan (pronounced) is a very light Si Da Ming Cong tea, a well-known oolong tea of Wuyi, in Fujian, China. Oolong and Bai Jiguan tea are oolong tea.
Baozhong tea
Baozhong tea, sometimes romanized as pouchong, is a lightly oxidized tea, twist shape, with floral notes, and usually not roasted, somewhere between green tea and what is usually considered oolong tea, though often classified with the latter due to its lack of the sharper green tea flavours. Oolong and Baozhong tea are Chinese tea and oolong tea.
Black tea
Black tea (also literally translated as red tea from various East Asian languages) is a type of tea that is more oxidized than oolong, yellow, white and green teas.
Caffeine
Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
See Oolong and Cambridge University Press
Camellia sinensis
Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrub or small tree in the flowering plant family Theaceae.
See Oolong and Camellia sinensis
Chiayi County
Chiayi County is a county in Taiwan.
Chinese tea
Chinese teas can be classified into six distinctive categories: white, green, yellow, oolong, black and post-fermented.
Chinese tea culture
Chinese tea culture includes all facets of tea (茶 chá) found in Chinese culture throughout history. Oolong and Chinese tea culture are Chinese tea.
See Oolong and Chinese tea culture
Cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.
Da Hong Pao
Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe, 大紅袍) is a Wuyi rock tea grown in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province, China.
Darjeeling
Darjeeling is a city in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea is a tea made from Camellia sinensis var. Oolong and Darjeeling tea are oolong tea.
Dayuling
Dayuling (el. 2565 m), formerly Hehuan Pass, is a mountain pass in Taiwan transversing the Central Mountain Range between Hehuanshan and Mt.
Dong Ding tea
Dong Ding (pronounced), also spelled Tung-ting, is an oolong tea from Taiwan. Oolong and Dong Ding tea are oolong tea.
Dongfang meiren
Dongfang meiren or baihao, among other Chinese names, is a heavily oxidized, non-roasted, tip-type oolong tea originating in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Oolong and Dongfang meiren are oolong tea.
See Oolong and Dongfang meiren
Flavonoid
Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids; from the Latin word flavus, meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of polyphenolic secondary metabolites found in plants, and thus commonly consumed in the diets of humans.
Food browning
Browning is the process of food turning brown due to the chemical reactions that take place within.
Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
Gaiwan
A gaiwan or zhong (盅) is a Chinese lidded bowl without a handle, used for the infusion of tea leaves and the consumption of tea.
Ghrelin
Ghrelin (or lenomorelin, INN) is a hormone primarily produced by enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach, and is often called a "hunger hormone" because it increases the drive to eat.
Glycoside
In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.
Gongfu tea
Gongfu tea or kung fu tea, literally "making tea with skill", is a traditional Chinese tea preparation method sometimes called a "tea ceremony".
High-mountain tea
High-mountain tea or gaoshan tea (pronounced) refers to several varieties of Oolong tea grown in the mountains of central Taiwan. Oolong and High-mountain tea are oolong tea.
See Oolong and High-mountain tea
Huangjin Gui
Huangjin Gui (pronounced) is a premium variety of Chinese oolong tea traditionally from Anxi in Fujian province. Oolong and Huangjin Gui are oolong tea.
Jin Xuan tea
Jin Xuan (pronounced) is a variety of oolong tea developed in 1980. Oolong and Jin Xuan tea are oolong tea.
List of Chinese teas
This is a list of Chinese teas. Oolong and list of Chinese teas are Chinese tea.
See Oolong and List of Chinese teas
Nanping
Nanping is a third-tier prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde to the east, Sanming to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to the north and west respectively. Part of the famous Bú-î Mountains range is located in this prefecture.
Nantou County
Nantou County (Hokkien POJ: Lâm-tâu-koān; Hakka PFS: Nàm-thèu-yen) is the second largest county of Taiwan by area, located in the central part of the country.
Pinglin District
Pinglin District (a.k.a. Ping-Lin) is a rural district of southeastern New Taipei, Taiwan.
See Oolong and Pinglin District
Quanzhou
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China.
Rougui tea
Rougui tea (pronounced) is a variety of the tea plant, commonly grown in the Wuyi Mountains and processed into oolong tea. Oolong and Rougui tea are oolong tea.
Ruan zhi
Ruan zhi or ruanzhi (pronounced) is a cultivar of the tea plant that is usually processed into oolong. Oolong and ruan zhi are oolong tea.
Serious Eats
Serious Eats is a website and blog focused on food enthusiasts, created by food critic and author Ed Levine.
Shui Jin Gui tea
Shui Jin Gui is a Wuyi oolong tea from Mount Wuyi, Fujian, China. Oolong and Shui Jin Gui tea are oolong tea.
See Oolong and Shui Jin Gui tea
Shui Xian
Shui Xian (traditional/simplified Chinese: 水仙, pinyin: shuǐxiān) is a cultivar of Camellia sinensis as well as an oolong tea traditionally from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian, China. Oolong and shui Xian are oolong tea.
Si Da Ming Cong tea
Si Da Ming Cong is a collective term referring to four famous Wuyi oolong tea bush varieties and the tea beverages made from them, namely. Oolong and Si Da Ming Cong tea are oolong tea.
See Oolong and Si Da Ming Cong tea
Spice
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
See Oolong and Spice
Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.
See Oolong and Tea
Tea processing
Tea processing is the method in which the leaves from the tea plant Camellia sinensis are transformed into the dried leaves for brewing tea.
Teaghrelins
Teaghrelins are acylated flavonoid tetraglycosides found in semi-oxidized oolong teas (Camellia sinensis), such as Chin-shin oolong tea and Shy‐jih‐chuen oolong tea.
Teochew cuisine
Teochew cuisine, also known as Chiuchow cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine or Teo-swa cuisine, originated from the Chaoshan region in the eastern part of China's Guangdong Province, which includes the cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang.
See Oolong and Teochew cuisine
Terroir
Terroir (from terre) is a French term used to describe the environmental factors that affect a crop's phenotype, including unique environment contexts, farming practices and a crop's specific growth habitat.
Tieguanyin
Tieguanyin (Standard Chinese pronunciation) is a variety of Chinese oolong tea that originated in the 19th century in Anxi in Fujian province. Oolong and Tieguanyin are oolong tea.
Tieluohan tea
Tieluohan or Tie Luo Han (pronounced) is one of the Four Great Oolongs and a light Wuyi tea. Oolong and Tieluohan tea are oolong tea.
Wuyi Mountains
The Wuyi Mountains or Wuyishan (formerly known as Bohea Hills in early Western documents) are a mountain range located in the prefecture of Nanping, in northern Fujian province near the border with Jiangxi province, China.
Yixing clay teapot
Yixing clay teapots, also called Zisha teapot, are made from Yixing clay.
See Oolong and Yixing clay teapot
See also
Chinese tea
- 24 flavors
- All in This Tea
- Arrowroot tea
- Baozhong tea
- Barley tea
- Butter tea
- Chinese tea
- Chinese tea culture
- Fermented tea
- Flowering tea
- Goji tea
- Green tea
- Jun (drink)
- Kelp tea
- List of Chinese teas
- Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute
- Matcha
- Oolong
- Ping-Lin Tea Museum
- Taipei Story House
- Tibeti
- White tea
- Yellow tea
Oolong tea
- Bai Jiguan tea
- Ban Tian Yao tea
- Baozhong tea
- Bu Zhi Chun tea
- Darjeeling tea
- Dong Ding tea
- Dongfang meiren
- Fo Shou tea
- High-mountain tea
- Huang Meigui tea
- Huangguanyin
- Huangjin Gui
- Jin Fo tea
- Jin Suo Chi tea
- Jin Xuan tea
- Oolong
- Qilan tea
- Rougui tea
- Ruan zhi
- Shui Jin Gui tea
- Shui Xian
- Si Da Ming Cong tea
- Sikkim tea
- Tieguanyin
- Tieluohan tea
- Wuyi tea
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong
Also known as Black Dragon tea, Blue tea, Light green tea, Oolong Tea, Ulun, Wu-Long, Wu-Lung, Wulong tea, Wulóng, Wūlóng, .