Most infamously, Huo Shan Huang Ya, a famous yellow tea at one time, has been lost to history. Anhui, being a poor province, lost the technique because the expense in producing it could not be sustained in the local market.
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A tea called Huo Shan Huang Ya can still be found on the tea market, although it has been made as green tea. The people the Anhui found it still commands a respectable price, and it is easier to sell as a green tea.
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There are still people however that buy this tea thinking it to be yellow. Tea scholars are searching the area in Northwestern Anhui to find someone that still knows the technique with no luck.
The remaining yellow teas are Jun Shan Yin Zhen from Hunan on Jun Shan island in Dong Ting lake, Meng Ding Huang Ya from Meng Ding Shan in Sichuan, and Mo Gan Huang Ya from Mo Gan Shan in Zhejiang, being the least known and rarest of the yellow teas.
The leaves are fried, as is the case in most green teas, but then the leaves are wrapped in some kind of material, thick paper in the case of Yin Zhen, and cloth in the case of the other two.
Yin Shen is stored in a wooden box. At intervals the tea is fried again and re-wrapped to cool and oxidize slightly. This process continues for up to three days and then slow roasted at the finish.