Red-printed round tea can be divided into "early red printing" and "late red printing" according to the different graphic fonts printed on the outer packaging paper of tea cakes. Because woodblock printing was still used at that time, after the woodblock was used for a long time, the fonts on the woodblock would have burrs and needed to be trimmed. The symbol font and strokes of "Eight teas" in "Early Red Seal" are thicker, but the font of "Late Red Seal" is slightly smaller with knife marks. On the packaging, the bamboo chops used in "Early Red Seal" are thick, old, hard and dark in color, while those used in "Late Red Seal" are tender, thin and light in color. In terms of aroma, spearmint is the "early red seal" and camphor is the "late red seal".
Both kinds of round tea are green tea produced in Mengla, with thick leaves and full strings. The color of tea is chestnut red, the tea surface is shiny, the tea soup is red, and the leaves are soft and fresh. Old-fashioned mold production, the inner fly is completely buried in the center of the tea cake, and the navel-free round cake tea is comparable.
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