明、清时期,闽茶发展快,出口多,创新也多,特别是清道光十四年(1831)以后,兴起种茶热,只瓯宁一县,就出现一千多家的茶厂,“每厂大者百余人,小亦数十人,千厂则万人,兼以客贩担夫络绎,道途充塞”,盛况空前。其他“各郡伐木为茶坪,且废田,种茶取利,闽中自此米薪倍贵,即木料杂植,亦因而缺,自北苑等而下之,皆市于夷”。到光绪十二年(1886),已“闽诸郡皆产茶”。为适应市场的需要,创制了红茶和乌龙茶,给茶 Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fujian tea developed rapidly, more exports, innovation is also more, especially after the Qing dynasty fourteen years (1831), the rise of tea hot, only Ou Ning a county, appeared more than a thousand tea factory, “Each plant big one hundred people, small also dozens of people, thousands of plants are ten thousand people, both to the client betrayed the family, the road stuffing” unprecedented grand occasion. Other “logging in the counties as tea-ping, and waste fields, growing tea for profit, Fujian since the rice double your salary, that is, the lack of wood hybrids, since the Beiyuan, etc., all in the city.” Twelve years to the Guangxu (1886), “Min Zhuo all tea production.” To meet the needs of the market, created black tea and oolong tea, to the tea