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Basic Introduction to Taoyuan Black Tea Taoyuan Black Tea belongs to the black tea category of China's six major tea types, named after its origin in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, China. Traditional Taoyuan Black Tea is divided into floral black tea, Gongfu black tea, and red brick tea. Modern Taoyuan Black Tea includes golden buds, red curly snails, Gongfu black, and red Fu brick. The outstanding quality of Taoyuan large-leaf tea lies in its "large leaves, soft texture, robust color, abundant down, jade-green liquor, fragrant aroma, and lingering aftertaste." Tea experts have determined that this tea is rich in selenium, zinc, and other trace elements beneficial to human health, as well as over 500 types of polyphenols, with a tea polyphenol content as high as 35% and an amino acid content of 8.56%, more than twice that of conventional teas. Due to the fact that these tea plants only flower but do not fruit, along with excessive picking over centuries, by the 1960s, there were very few wild tea plants left in Taoyuan. At this time, many domestic tea scholars and experts came searching for them. Liao Yuzhao, a tea taster from Anhua, was astonished to find two distinctive large-leaf…