The ancient tea ceremony was cast in a thousand years, and the feelings of Dongzhuang were inherited in a hundred years.
This is one of the sources of the ancient tea-horse road in China. Along this ancient tea transportation road, you will find the history of prosperity or decline in many places. Through time and space, you finally discover how tea has quietly changed people's lives and rewritten the history of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Yang Lou Cave, located in Zhaoliqiao Town, the southwest border of chibi city, is the same symbol as Hankou in the imperial map of Qing Dynasty, but the name of this ancient town may be unfamiliar to many people today. However, this small town surrounded by mountains was an internationally famous town with a population of more than 40,000 in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This ancient town, which thrived on tea, is now as cold as an ancient well, leaving only one old street.
History of tea
China is the first country to grow and drink tea in the world, and Chibi is one of the places where tea is born prematurely in China. Chibi, the ancient city of Puyin, has a history of 1700 years, and the history of tea picking in Chibi far exceeds this figure, reaching more than 2,000 years. As far back as the Tang Dynasty, Chibi was turned into a gardener by the imperial court. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Chibi was designated as a place to buy tea. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yanglou Cave in Chibi became an international tea capital.
Chayuan
Song Feng is the origin of Dongzhuang tea, which has been famous at home and abroad for its unique natural environment and natural suitability for tea since ancient times. It is the origin of green brick tea and rice brick tea. Song Fengshan and its neighboring Mufu Mountain are adjacent to Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, with uneven peaks and slopes. The red soil in the south of the Yangtze River contains a little gravel and has good air permeability. Coupled with subtropical monsoon circulation, abundant rainfall, warm climate, frost-free period of more than 280 days, sunshine of more than 2300 hours, fully meet the photosynthesis of tea growth. Between the green mountains and green waters in Yang Lou Cave, there are three springs: Guanyin Spring, Liangyin Spring and Shiren Spring. The water here is so clear, transparent and mellow, containing hundreds of trace elements beneficial to human body, such as aluminum, silicon, potassium, calcium and selenium. For more than a thousand years, the green brick tea bred by the water here has been favored by nomads of all ethnic groups thousands of miles away, and even Europeans and Americans.
Those who live in Tibet, Mongolia, Uygur, Kazak, Russian and other three northern regions of China are located in the plateau or desert, with a cold climate and heavy work. High-fat and oily meat is the main food all the year round, and there are few fruits and vegetables. The indispensable vitamins of human body are mainly supplemented by drinking tea. The predecessor of brick tea is hat box tea, which is made of old green tea. First, the tea leaves are screened, then heated with steam and pressed in a mold. 186 1 year, hat box tea was transformed into rectangular bricks, so it was called brick tea. Therefore, Yang Lou Cave is the birthplace of China blue brick tea, and Dongzhuang brick tea is the life tea of ethnic minorities, which plays an important role in the survival of northern ethnic minorities in the harsh natural environment of Mobei. Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty abolished Tea and Horse Department and Horse Market in Ming Dynasty, and opened the folk trade of Han and Mongolian nationalities. Brick tea in Yangloudong was once used as currency, which made the brick tea manufacturing industry in Yangloudong more prosperous. At that time, Shanxi merchants and Guangdong merchants gathered in Yanglou Cave, and there were more than 400 tea houses at most. The huge sales of brick tea have also attracted the attention of foreign capitalists. /kloc-in the 1960s, Russian businessmen took the lead in opening a teahouse in Hankou.
Chashi
This is an existing ancient street in Yang Lou Cave, which was mainly built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The streets are paved with bluestone. Chickens carrying tea in the past dynasties pressed the slate into a ditch more than an inch deep. From Yang Lou Cave to Xindian, there is a 20-kilometer-long ancient road carrying green slate tea, and there are still more than 3,000 meters of intermittent ancient slate roads such as Jinjiawan, Hu Jiazhuang, Qianbuling and Qilichong. Yangloudong Shiban Street in Ming and Qing Dynasties can be regarded as the historical epitome of the development of tea industry in China. In the Tang Dynasty, Chibi, Yuezhou and Wuchang became the three major destinations for tea export in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of border trade tea made the tea market gradually turn to the southern Hubei tea area centered on Yangloudong. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the stable political and social environment at home and abroad, as well as the expanding market demand for tea in the frontier and Russia, made Jin and Guangdong businessmen go deep into the tea-producing areas in the mainland to buy tea. It is in this context that Yang Lou Cave has become an international tea market. During the reign of Qing Kang Gan, Lei Zhongwan opened the largest Dongzhuang tea shop in Yang Lou, producing the best brick tea. Taking Lotus as an example, with the word "Dongzhuang" as the knowledge, it mainly sells Mongolian grasslands, Russian and Western Asian countries, and Marx's works. There is such a narrative between Russians and China in the book. This industry adopts the annual meeting system.
Tea products
People on the mainland will never really understand green brick tea. It is strange that what is produced on such a beautiful land naturally belongs to the beautiful Mongolian grassland thousands of miles away and the thirsty places of Xinjiang, Tibet, Gansu and Ningxia. It belongs to people who drink a cup in the dry, cold and hot summer. This is brick tea.
Dongzhuang Brick Tea produced in Yang Lou Cave has obvious old aroma in terms of its intrinsic aroma, which contains the compound odor of fermenting bacteria, bamboo and wood. The aged Dongzhuang black tea, with the passage of time, becomes more and more fragrant, stronger and purer. It can also have obvious almond fragrance when stored for a long time in a specific geographical environment. In addition to alcohol, there is also a feeling, rough but not astringent, old but not light, and mellow taste. When you carefully taste tea soup, you have different levels of structural sense when you enter, turn your tongue, swallow and swallow. In addition to bright orange, aged green brick tea also has an amber crystal sense. The soup is deep red and bright, with pure and harmonious aroma and mellow taste. It has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing heart fire, refreshing, warming the body against cold, reducing fat and slimming.
Chalu road
Many people know that there was a Silk Road in ancient China, but they don't necessarily know that there is a Sino-Russian tea road that goes deep into the Mongolian Plateau and the hinterland of Siberia. The Russian brick tea is transported in Yanglou Cave by wheelbarrow (chicken cart) to the new store for shipment, out of Taipingkou along the east to Hankou, back to the Hanshui River to Xiangyang, then ashore by boat, then transported by warehouse truck, passing through Tanghe River, Henan Sheqi, and passing through the Yellow River from Luoyang. Then the caravan crossed the grassland and desert to trade in Russia's border port of Chaktu, and Russian businessmen were trafficked to Siberia and distant Moscow, Petersburg and European countries. This tea road is also called westward, and the tea is called western goods, while the eastern goods are from Taiyuan, Datong, Zhangjiakou or Baotou, Kulun (Ulaanbaatar) to Chaktu, an important town in China on the Sino-Russian border, and then Chinese and Russian businessmen reach northwest Asia, Moscow, Petersburg and European countries. Chaktu became the tea distribution center and marketing center of China and Russia at that time. /kloc-In the first half of the 9th century, the tea exported from southern Hubei through Chaktu reached 40% of China's total tea exports to Russia. This tea road, which started in Yang Lou Cave in southern Hubei, has a history of more than two centuries, with a total length near Wan Li and a journey of several months. Green tea and black tea go south to Guangzhou via Yueyang, Changsha and Shaoguan and are transported to European and American countries. Tea Road became the communication road between China and China.
Tea sage
After thousands of years of wind and rain, brick tea in Yangloudong, Zhaoliqiao Town has become a symbol of maintaining national unity, and has set up a monument to national unity in the hearts of people of all ethnic groups in the north. The unique natural conditions have created high-quality Dongzhuang brick tea and continued the thousand-year fragrance of Yangloudong tea culture.
Chibi city Qiaokouzhuang Tea Industry Co., Ltd. is a century-old tea production enterprise based on traditional brick tea processing technology. The company is located in Yangloudong Tea Farm, Zhaoliqiao Town, chibi city City, Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. The company is surrounded by tea gardens with elegant tea fragrance, adjacent to the famous ten thousand mu tea garden. The company's existing tea raw material base is 3000 mu, which has laid a good foundation for stabilizing product quality. The main products, green brick tea and rice brick tea (red brick tea), are adhering to the traditional fermentation processing technology, with compact and smooth appearance, clear and bright soup color, delicate and mellow taste, and have the nutritional and health-care functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, refreshing the brain, promoting digestion, strengthening the stomach, liposuction to lose weight, expelling toxin and stopping diarrhea, which are deeply loved by consumers.
In 2008, Dongzhuang brand brick tea was rated as a designated tourist commodity by chibi city Municipal People's Government, and in 20 10, Dongzhuang brand brick tea won the silver prize in China Food Expo. Today, Chibi Municipal Government guides, updates and transforms old tea gardens, expands new tea gardens, promotes pollution-free tea gardens, supports a number of outstanding tea production enterprises such as Dongzhuang Tea Industry, unifies product quality standards, builds brands, takes the road of industrialization, and forms scale advantages and brand effects. Tea has become a sustainable industry in Chibi, which has promoted rural economic development and increased farmers' income. Today, it has more than 60,000 mu of pollution-free high-quality tea gardens. Yangloudong brick tea has been successfully declared as a product protection of geographical indications in China and has become an organic tea production base in China. Dongzhuang brick tea, represented by Yangloudong tea produced in Zhaoliqiao Town, is continuously sold to China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and other Mobei areas, exported to more than 20 countries such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and is also providing high-quality and pollution-free tea products to the whole world for the benefit of all mankind. On the basis of consolidating the traditional brick tea market, Dongzhuang brick tea people are striving to explore new ideas, develop new products, explore new markets, explore tea history, carry forward tea culture and write a new chapter in Chibidong tea industry.