Abstract: The chromatographic fingerprinting of dark teas from different regions in China was established by high performance liquid chromatography using diode array and evaporative light- scattering detector. The results showed that 27 common peaks were demarcated and eight constituents, for example, gallic acid and epigallocatechin were identified in the chromatographic fingerprinting with HPLC-DAD of 36 dark tea samples; 15common peaks were demarcated and six constituents, for example, glutamicacid and L-theanine were identified in the chromatographic fingerprinting with HPLC- ELSD.The results of similarity evaluation showed that the HPLCDAD similarity of 36 dark tea samples was from 0.903 to 0.979, the HPLC- ELSD similarity of 36 dark tea samples was from 0.902 to 0.974, and the similarity of six control samples was less than 0.900. The research supplies a reference method to the identification and quality assessment of dark tea.