The diagram illustrates the process of five tea types producing from tea leaves.
From the quick glance, almost kinds of tea are projected through 5 main steps which divided by 2 main phases while there are 3 steps for White tea. It is beginning with plucking and the last step is oven drying during this process.
Initially, the workers plant tea trees and pick up leaves which are mature, followed the selective leaves are kept to be wilted. In addition, two above steps are basically experience in all of teas and display as one of the main roles in all of process. Generally, there are several distinction in the central steps which include steaming, rolling and crushing between each kind of tea. In particularly, both Olong Tea and large leaf black tea undergo rolling as well as crushing for Small leaf Black tea. Regarding to Green tea which contrasts to White tea, with no central steps, it includes steaming step before rolling.
On the latter phases, the remaining steps of the process will decide taste of each kind of tea for each purpose. Fermentation divided by 2 ways is undergone in these stages in 3 certain kinds of tea. Specifically, Black tea and Oolong are becoming to be the most complex process in comparision with the other terms, with Full Fermentation and slight Fermentation step, respecitvely. Finally, all of the production will be dried and end up to the comsumers.