Drying the tea

Drying　　

　　After the process of rolling, tea leaves are dried in the drying machine, over a charcoal fire, or heated with gas.  With high temperature, enzymes in leaves are destroyed and the moisture is under 5%.  With the drying process, tea won’t be easily deteriorated.   The rolled leaves are spread out on a plate and place in a drying machine.  Those dried leaves are called “Crude tea”.

Crude tea	Drying machine	Drying machine

• Photo credit：Tea Journey in Taipei Wenshan

• Reference：Tea Journey in Taipei Wenshan

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