Hunan: Eight Tea Regions of Dark and Yellow Tea湖南:8 个茶区
湖南 · HUNAN
A centre for dark and yellow tea: Anhua dark tea and Junshan silver needle, with qianliang and fu brick tea crafts still passed down.黑茶与黄茶重镇:安化黑茶被茶界视为中国黑茶之祖,君山银针为黄茶代表。千两茶、茯砖茶制作技艺入选人类非遗。
8 tea regions below. Compiled from public sources, October 2026. Region names are as recorded on the map.下文 8 个茶区,据公开资料整理,2026 年 10 月。
Anhua Dark Tea安化黑茶
Dark tea黑茶Grown in Anhua county, Yiyang, and named for the place. The range covers fu brick, black brick, flower brick, green brick and the xiangjian grades. In the Wanli reign of the Ming it was designated an official tea and sold to the northwest.产于益阳安化县,因产地得名,产品有茯砖、黑砖、花砖、青砖、湘尖(三尖)。明代万历年间被定为官茶,销往西北。
A key town on the thousand-year tea-horse road.千年茶马古道重镇。
A main area for rough tea.毛茶主产区。
Yiyang Fu Brick Tea益阳茯砖茶
Dark tea黑茶Fu brick is made in Yiyang. It is the only dark tea with the 'flowering' step — the fungus Eurotium cristatum, known as golden flowers — and it is called the tea of life by the peoples of the northwest.茯砖产于益阳市,是黑茶中唯一有「发花」工艺(冠突散囊菌,即金花)的茶种,被誉为西北各民族的「生命之茶」。
Junshan Silver Needle君山银针
Yellow tea黄茶Grown on Junshan island in Dongting Lake, Yueyang. The buds are plump and covered in golden down — nicknamed gold set in jade — and they rise and sink three times when brewed. Picking is limited to about 7–10 days around Qingming.产于岳阳洞庭湖中的君山岛,芽头肥壮、金黄白毫,雅称「金镶玉」,冲泡三起三落。采摘仅限清明前后 7–10 天。
Guzhang Maojian古丈毛尖
Green tea绿茶Grown in Guzhang county in the Wuling mountains of western Hunan.产于湘西武陵山区古丈县。
Baojing Golden Tea保靖黄金茶
Green tea绿茶Grown in Baojing county, western Hunan — 'an ounce of gold, an ounce of tea'.产于湘西保靖县,「一两黄金一两茶」。
Jietan Tea碣滩茶
Green tea绿茶Grown in the Jietan hills of Yuanling, Huaihua; it was called Chenzhou jietan tea in the Tang dynasty.产于怀化沅陵碣滩山区,唐代称「辰州碣滩茶」。
Nanyue Yunwu Tea南岳云雾茶
Green tea绿茶Grown on Mount Heng near Hengyang. Lu Yu's Classic of Tea notes that tea from south of the mountains grows in the valleys of Hengshan county.产于衡阳南岳衡山,陆羽《茶经》「茶出山南者,生衡山县山谷」。
Weishan Maojian沩山毛尖
Yellow tea黄茶Grown at Weishan in Ningxiang, Changsha; with Junshan silver needle it is summed up as 'the two mountains of Xiaoxiang yellow tea'.产于长沙宁乡市沩山,与君山银针并称「潇湘黄茶数两山」。
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- ← Back to the China Tea Map — all 24 provinces and their 109 tea regions.← 回到中国茶地图 —— 24 个省份、109 个茶区。
- Fujian in full — nine tea regions written out with their origins, land, craft and taste.福建茶区全解 —— 九个茶区,逐条写源流、风土、工艺、品鉴。
- Choosing a gongfu tea set — what actually goes into one, and why.功夫茶具怎么选一套 —— 一套里到底有哪几件。
- Choosing a tea tray — the piece everyone forgets until it is too late.茶盘怎么选 —— 最容易忘、又最晚才想起来的那一件。
- Questions about how to brew any of these? Write to me — if I don’t know, I’ll say so.不知道这些茶该怎么泡?写信给我——不知道的,我会直说。
We sell tea ware, not tea. Region names and origin details on this page are compiled from public sources (October 2026); where a claim cannot be sourced, we leave it out.本站卖茶器,不卖茶。本页茶区名称与产地信息据公开资料整理(2026-10);没有出处的,我们不写。