Black Tea CTC can be divided into 2 types according to the shape:
 
1. Loose tea:
How is Pu'er tea classified
The tea still retains the original scattered leaf shape of its tea leaves, without being pressed by gravity or pressed into a special shape, it is loose tea. The scattered Pu'er tea is helpful for those who are new to Pu'er to carefully observe the shape and color of the leaves. It is convenient to touch the leaves and feel the feel of Pu'er tea.
 
2. Squeeze the tea:
How is Pu'er tea classified
Pu'er tea is pressed into certain shapes such as round cakes (Menghai Dayi brand Qizi cake tea), Tuo-shaped (Xiaguan Tuo tea) of different sizes, and square tea (Fang tea from Yunnan tea factory). ), brick tea (Pu'er brick tea of ​​Yunnan Animal Products Import and Export Company). Compressed tea is said to be invented for convenient transportation and good storage. Many raw teas are made into the shape of cake tea, while the mature tea is mostly brick-shaped. The tea leaves that have been pressed in the middle of the brick for a long time have better natural post-fermentation conditions, which makes it have a better taste.
 
Pu'er is classified according to the production process:
 
1. Shengpu:

Fresh tea leaves are picked and aged in a natural way. They are not processed into raw tea by fermentation. Raw tea is strong and irritating. Freshly made or old raw tea has a strong bitter taste, astringent taste, and the soup color is lighter or yellow-green. Raw tea is suitable for people who love Pu'er for long-term storage. It can be stored at home. Year after year, the color of raw Pu'er leaves becomes darker and the fragrance becomes more and more mellow. Just like the accumulation of life history, it has endless fun and excited. Of course, the value of Pu'er will increase year after year.
 
2. Cooked in general:

Xiang Cha has been fermented during the production process to make the tea tend to be mild, which is called cooked tea. In 1973, Menghai Tea Factory and Kunming Tea Factory jointly developed the Odui fermentation method. The tea bricks produced by Kunming Tea Factory were highly praised by Pu'er tea people for its golden and moist tea soup and rich ginseng jujube flavor. Ripe Pu has a mild tea nature, the tea is silky and smooth, and has a full-bodied fragrance, which is more suitable for daily drinking. Of course, if you have a piece of good quality ripe pu, it is also worthy of collection, and the fragrance of the ripe pu will still become more and more soft and rich with the aging time.