"Dan Stromberg" > wrote in message

> http://chineseteas101.com/teaclass.htm
>
> Is it true that black tea and red tea are two different things in China?
> I had thought Red tea in china was what we called black tea in the West.

That's not contradictory. As the site says, the process is different.

Black tea :
-leaves are heated
-leaves are massaged by hand*
-time of maturation in high temperature
-leaves are massaged by hand*
-leaves are dried

Red tea :
-leaves are displayed on baskets
-leaves are massaged by hand*
-fermentation
-leaves are dried

*I translate without knowing the technical term in English, but that's
litterally what they do.

Kuri