Tea Processing (Withering)

[Jneb802]

Hey guys I am working on building an extensive guide on how tea is processed.

Does anybody know if tea is withered both indoors and outdoors? Or is it that the farmer chooses to wither indoors or wither outdoors?

Also, is it true that only oolong, black and puerh teas are withered? It also says in this article that green and white teas go straight to the fixation (killing the green) stage?

I am reading this article and was getting a little confused.

http://zhidao.baidu.com/link?url=HOSNa7 ... JolAMNMive

If anybody has any other good resources about tea processing, please do send them my way.

Thanks so much!!!!

[TheCeylonTea]

In Sri Lanka, for traditional black tea manufacturing, we wither the tea indoors