Yellow tea is a particular lightly oxidized

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 south-western China and nor ...

, either Chinese ''huángchá'' ( zh, t=黃茶, s=黄茶, labels=no) and Korean ''hwangcha'' ().

Chinese ''huángchá''

''Huángchá'' is increasingly rare and expensive. The process for making it is similar to that of

green tea Green tea is a type of tea made from the leaves and buds of the '' Camellia sinensis'' that have not undergone the withering and oxidation process that creates oolong teas and black teas. Green tea originated in China in the late 1st millenn ...

but with an added step of encasing, or ''sweltering'', giving the leaves a slightly yellow coloring during the drying process. Chinese yellow tea is often placed in the same category as green tea because of its light oxidation. One of the goals of this production method is to remove the characteristic grassy smell of green tea.

Varieties

* Junshan Yinzhen (君山銀針): from

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is a ''Silver Needle'' yellow tea. A Chinese Famous Tea. * Huoshan Huangya (霍山黃芽): from Mt. Huo,

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. * Meng Ding Huangya (蒙頂黃芽): from Mt. Meng,

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. * Mogan Huangya (莫干黃芽): from Mount Mogan,

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. * Beigang Maojian (北港毛尖): from Yueyang,

. Also known by the Tang Dynasty-era name ''Yōnghúchá'' (邕湖茶). * Weishan Maojian (溈山毛尖): from Mt. Wei, Weishan Township, Ningxiang,

. * Haimagong Cha (海馬宮茶): from

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. * Da Ye Qing (大葉青): from

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. Literally ''Big Leaf Green''. * Pingyang Huangtang (平陽黃湯): from

. Could be called one of the ''Wenzhou Huangtang'' (溫州黃湯); the latter term is literally translated as ''Yellow Broth'' or ''Yellow Soup''. * Yuan'an Luyuan (遠安鹿苑): from Yuan'an County,

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Korean ''hwangcha''

In Korean tea terminology, domestic tea is categorized mainly as either green (nokcha; ) or fermented (balhyocha; ), "fermented" here practically meaning "oxidized"; "yellow tea" (''hwangcha'') denotes lightly oxidized ''balhyocha'' without implications of processing methods or a result that would qualify the tea as "yellow" in the Chinese definition. Unlike Chinese ''huángchá'', Korean ''hwangcha'' is made similarly to

oolong Oolong or Wulong (, ; ; , "black 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 Enzymatic oxidation, oxidation to ...

tea or lightly oxidized

black tea Black tea (also literally translated as red tea from various East Asian languages) is a type of tea that is more tea processing, oxidized than oolong, yellow tea, yellow, white tea, white, and green tea, green teas. Black tea is generally st ...

, depending on who makes it. The key feature is a noticeable but otherwise relatively low level of oxidation which leaves the resulting tea liquor yellow in color. File:Sejak, ujeon, hwangcha tea leaves.jpg, Tea leaves: ''

sejak ''Sejak'' (), also called ''dumul-cha'' (), refers to ''nokcha'' (green tea) made of young, tender leaves and buds hand-plucked after ''Guyu, gogu'' ("grain rain", 20–21 April) but before ''Lixia, ipha'' ("advent of summer", 5–6 May). Also c ...

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''hwangcha'' File:Hwangcha.jpg, ''Hwangcha'' File:Korean tea hwangcha Naju South Korea 2015-01-17(1).jpg, infusing ''hwangcha''

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Chinese ''huángchá''

Varieties

Korean ''hwangcha''

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