Modern tea studies commonly classify Oolong tea into Fujian(North Fujian Oolong and South Fujian Oolong), Guang Dong Oolong and Taiwan Oolong.
South Fujian Oolong tea is lightly oxidized, mainly produced in south Fujian counties, such as Anxi, Yongchun, Nanan, Pinghe, Huaan, etc. Anxi Oolong is the best known.
Anxi has been a large tea-producing area since ancient times, especially well-known for asexual tea reproduction (reproduction through cutting, layering, etc.). Before the Ming Dynasty, China’s tea trees were grown from seeds. During Chongzhen’s reign (Ming Dynasty), tea farmers in Anxi invented asexual reproduction (layering the whole plant to reproduce tea trees of the same breed), which was widely adopted later.
