由于我国产茶历史悠久，茶区辽阔，自然条件各异，茶树品种繁多，更因采制加工方法不同，从而形成了千姿百态、丰富多彩的茶品。人们通过长期的实践，创造并采用了不同的加工制作工艺，发展了从不发酵、半发酵到全发酵一系列不同茶类，逐步形成了中国传统意义上的六大茶类：绿茶、红茶、乌龙茶、白茶、黄茶、黑茶。此外，花茶和砖茶也是有名的茶品。
Since China has a long history of tea planting, extensive tea areas, various natural conditions, numerous varieties of tea trees and also different methods of tea collecting and processing, it has produced thousands of tea products. Through long-term practice, people have created and adopted diverse processing and making technologies for developing series of tea. These come from non-fermented, half-fermented and fully-fermented teas, which gradually formed the six major types of tea in traditional Chinese concept, which are green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and dark tea. Furthermore, scented tea and brick tea are famous teas as well.
