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Chunmee茶とは何か？
Chunmee, also written Chun Mee, is a refined Chinese green tea with a slender, slightly curved leaf — the name means eyebrow tea. It is produced mainly in Zhejiang and Anhui and is the second green tea category after gunpowder in West African trade, as well as the principal green grade moving into Central Asia. The liquor is a clear light gold, lighter than gunpowder.
gunpowderと同様に、Chunmeeグレードコードは、精製およびスクリーニング後に完成品を記述する。番号は、花園や収穫に関する声明ではなく、葉形、サイズ分類、破損の内容の仕様です。
| 等級 | 外観 | 典型的な役割 | 主要市場 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41022 | 標準輸出品 | 最も広く取引されているグレード | 西アフリカ、中央アジア |
| 9371 | 製造はいい | 936xシリーズ上のステップ | ウズベキスタン、中央アジア |
| 9366 | 標準 | 音量格 | 西アフリカ |
| 9367 / 9368 / 9369 | 降行品 | 混ぜたり価格による分数 | 混合、再輸出 |
杯の Chunmee と gunpowder はどう違いますか？
Gunpowder is rolled into pellets that release slowly and hold up to repeated infusion; Chunmee is an open, slender leaf that opens faster and gives a lighter, clearer liquor. In markets that brew three rounds from one charge of leaf, that difference is commercial: it changes how much leaf a household uses per pot and therefore the effective cost in use.
購入者はしばしば両方を運ぶ。Gunpowderは伝統的な調理品を運び、Chunmeeは混合、包装、小売品の軽い端を運びます。
Chunmeeの需要はどこに成長しているのでしょうか？
Central Asia. Uzbekistan took 29,217.4 tonnes of Chinese tea in 2025, up 17.3% — second only to Morocco by volume among China's ten largest markets and ninth by value. Uzbekistan is landlocked, so this site quotes it by rail through the Khorgos–Altynkol corridor rather than by sea.
Rail changes the packing brief. Transit humidity, handling profile and pallet configuration differ from a container moving Ningbo to Casablanca, and moisture control at or below 7.0% has to survive a different journey.
West Africa remains the volume base. Senegal, at 24,000 tonnes and USD 4,024.6 per tonne in 2025, and Ghana, at USD 72.4 million with 99.92% green tea, both run Chunmee alongside gunpowder.