Abstract:16 kinds of China tea as raw materials，the national standard method （GB/T8313 -2008 second method，determination of total polyphenols and catechins content in tea） was used for determining the content of the tea polyphenols. The results showed that the tea polyphenols content of 16 kinds of tea was from 91.59 mg/g to 376.60 mg/g； different types and different processing methods leaded to different content.The content order was ： green tea >white tea > yellow tea>oolong tea>red tea>black tea；not fermented tea > semi fermented tea > fermented tea. TP content of tea with the same breed and fermentation varied with factors such as origin and ag－ ing time. So green tea with high TP content （Pu-Er raw Tuo， Xinyang maojian， etc.） was expected to become the best tea source for people's health drink and TP functional product.