history
Hunan black tea has an important position in history. In a nutshell, one has a long history, the second is a huge output, the third is a good quality, and the fourth is a rich variety.
In the middle of Tang Dynasty, with the development of tea production and consumption increased. Tea trade is booming. During the Taihe period (827~835), it began to trade tea and horses with Saiwai. From Jiangnan to North China and even beyond Sai, a vast tea market has formed. Merchants acquired more of Tan Chau, Yue Chau and Heng Cha Cha in Hunan. History records, in 952, the court sent three soldiers will buy tea in Hunan there are several. The drainage of Yiyang tea in Qujiang flake slices from Hunan Province was sold to Jiangling and Xiangyang in Hubei Province.
In the Song Dynasty, the government-purchased monopoly tea system was used to collect taxes from tea merchants to collect tax votes from the government, take them to production sites, and transport them to the north. In 1088, the Song government set up a “Bo Yichang†in Longtang on the north bank of Zishui County, Anhua County, where it transported salt rice cloth and exchanged tea and other local products.
The Ming Dynasty continued to implement the tea-horse policy that was monopolized by the government. The black tea produced in Hunan's Anhua was sold and sold by the merchants in the northwest and was managed by the government. Because of its good quality and low price, it was favored by the ethnic minority areas. Officially, it was designated as official tea in 1595. Since the Northwest China lawsuit, the tea was mainly Hanzhong and Sichuan tea, and Hunan tea was the supplement. At this time, the place of production is concentrated in the cities and towns along the banks of the capital. The tea merchants who come to purchase dark tea include provincial businessmen from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei and Hunan.
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasty, Anhua Black Tea gradually occupied the northwestern side of the tea market, and Anhua became the main tea production and supply base of the “Tea and Horse Tradingâ€. And shipped to Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei Provinces and other provinces, the highest year of more than 4,000 tons.
During the Qing dynasty, with the booming of tea drinking and domestic and foreign export trade, the Hunan tea production area gradually expanded to most of the counties within and outside the province. Hunan black tea has become a “citation†tea, and tea merchants have taken the lead to purchase places for production. In 1683, the fixed quota was 22400. Local marketing in Xining, Zhuanglang, Handan, Hezhou and Ganzhou. The old green tea produced by the Supervisor Xiang was purchased by the Shanxi businessman Lailou Building and sold to Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia and Russia. At the beginning of the Qing emperor's reign, Taoyuan County had Jiang, Zhou and other eight surname tea merchants with black tea. At this time, the sales and sales of black tea were very popular. At the height of Anhua County's peak, the production and sales volume reached 2000 giants (150,000 fold, combined 8952). Tons), annual production of 7.2 to 8,000 kilos during the Qing Jiaqing period (before 1820).
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the tea trade was stopped. In the twenty-first year of Emperor Qianlong (1756), Hunan governor Chen Hongmou played an Anju tea regulation. Before the tea season, Gushan tea merchants first seized the tea. The tea after the valley rain can be sold to visitors. Prior to Daoguang's first year (1821), Shaanxi tea merchants cited the commission of remittances from the bank to Anhua to order or purchase black teas from wool and hides, and processed them into Hanamaki (two thousand tea) and tea tea in situ. At the height of its peak, there were more than 30 traders and annual output of 30,000-40,000 variegated teas sold principally in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, and Harhar, and Suiyuan.
Hunan's black tea is of good quality and has been selling well and flourishingly, holding an important position in the northwest tea sales. Among them, although there were two major wars, the sales of black tea in Hunan caused a period of time, but due to the historical status of the dark tea in Hunan and the role it played, the government adopted a series of reform measures. It will soon be restored.
Hunan's black tea is rich in categories, ranging from the early bulk teas (Gan Yin and Shan Yin) to the later hand-pressed bundles of 1,000 teas, to black brick tea, remorseless brick tea, brick tea, Tiangong, Gong, and Health. Sharp tea is full of dazzling colors and colors. Year after year, a variety of different grades of drinking, taste style of new products is springing up, emerging one after another.
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds,Baking Pumpkin Seeds,Cooking Pumpkin Seeds,Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
Wuyuan county dafeng oil food co.,ltd , https://www.dafengfood.com.cn