The invention provides a method for processing yellow tea from a tea tree variety of chuannong huangya zao. The method comprises the following steps: picking raw materials, performing sunshine withering, drying in the air, removing water, heaping for yellowing, making into strips, pre-baking, re-baking and the like. According to the method, yellow green fresh leaves of the tea tree variety of chuannong huangya zao in spring, summer and autumn, which is suitable for processing yellow tea, are taken as raw materials, the traditional yellow tea process is inherited and innovated, and the sunshine withering process and the air-drying process are creatively added based on the traditional yellow tea processing, so that the developed yellow tea has the quality characteristics of yellow soup, yellow leaves, sweet and mellow taste, sweet fragrance and aroma, and flower flavor, the problems that the yellow tea prepared by utilizing a green tea variety is not outstanding in fragrance, single in odor type, insufficient and dark in color, luster and yellowness of dried tea, and insufficiently sweet and mellow in taste can be successfully solved, and the method has the advantages of being simple, efficient, excellent in quality of prepared tea, and the like.