"Sichuan" brick tea comes from Chibi, Hubei.

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client August 24th (Reporter Wang Weiqi) "This is one of the tea sources of tea and horses." The visiting group of Wuhan Metropolitan Circle came to Yanglou Cave in Songfeng Mountain, 26 kilometers southwest of Chibi City. This is the main point of the junction of the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi. The hometown of the cave tea is known as the "blue brick tea village", and it is also one of the tea sources of China and Russia's "Wanli Tea Ceremony".

The members of the visiting group walked into Yanglou Congqing Qingshine Street. Changjiang.com reporter Lu Shiwen Photo

Entering the China -Russia Wanli Tea Ceremony Exhibition Hall, a little tea fragrance was drifting on the face. I saw that the wall showed a piece of finished green brick tea, and the tea surface was engraved with the word "Sichuan".

"Does this 'Sichuan' refers to Sichuan tea?" Wang Yunqi, a member of the visiting delegation, Wang Yunqi, a student of the School of Journalism and Communication of Hubei University.

Green brick tea, the tea noodles are engraved with the word "Sichuan". Changjiang.com reporter Lu Shiwen Photo

"'Sichuan' Character Green Brick Tea belongs to the green brick tea of ​​the State Tea Factory Zhao Liqiao Tea Factory. During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, nomadic peoples that were mainly sold to the Mongolian Plateau, which were mainly sold in the Mongolian Plateau, needed to drink tea to help digestion and supplement vitamins.

Rao Jie is telling the members of the visiting group about the origin of "Sichuan" named brick tea. Changjiang.com reporter Lu Shiwen Photo

During the Song Jingde period, the sales of black tea in Yanglou Cave doubled than Tang Shi. Black tea was welcomed by the pastoral herders of the Siberia and the Western Prairie. It is said that Wang Zhaojun was condolences and brought tea in Hubei with him. Mongolians who have long -term consumption of beef and mutton drink tea after drinking tea. Since then, shepherds have gradually become a fashion in the grassland, so that they would rather have no food for three days.

"When tea was transported, the word 'Sichuan' represents the brand of Hubei Black Tea." Rao Jie introduced that the nomadic people do not understand Chinese, and they can only touch the marks on the word "Sichuan" on the tea brick with 3 fingers. If so, it is the authentic tea in their hearts; if not, the tea should be returned.

Huang Baiquan, an expert at the visiting group, invited experts at Hubei University, and President of the Wanli Tea Ceremony Research Institute, is sharing the story of the Wanli Tea Ceremony with the members of the visiting delegation. Changjiang.com reporter Lu Shiwen Photo

"'Sichuan' also represents the local water source. The mountain spring water is called Guanyinquan, Liangyin Spring, Shirenquan, and the Sanbaoxi Liuquan water gathers at Songfeng." Rao Jie said that printing the water and wealth on the tea brick is I hope the tea is sold far and sells well.

The Song Dynasty once conducted tea -horse transactions with Brick Tea as a hard currency with Inner Mongolia. "One pound is easy to one sheep, and ten pounds of cows." Rao Jie introduced that tea was very precious at the time. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Chinese border city of Chaktu (now Russia) became a heavy town of Yanglou Cave Brick Tea Border Trade, and the cave tea was fragrant.

"The most famous tea in Yanglou Cave is the" Sichuan "name of the tea. There are 'Changshengkawa' '' '巨“' '' Sanyuchuan 'and so on. It can be used as a currency in the Mongolian grassland and can be used as currency. "Huang Baiquan said.

Sarrate ruts of Yanglou cars. Changjiang.com reporter Lu Shiwen Photo

After finishing a sip of green brick tea, walking on the green stone slab road with ruts, Li Xiaofen, a member of the visiting group and the assistant director of the city planning and architectural design institute of the Yangtze River Design Group, emotioned: "I used to know Wuyi Mountain Tea, Xinyang Maojian, Longjing, Tea, etc., but this event made me eye -catching and deeply appreciated the deep tea culture of the Yangtze River Basin. "

[Edit: Deng La Xiu]

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