Experts and scholars say: The Guangdong -Han Dynasty Railway has diverted Yanglou Cave for the tea industry trade

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client September 2 (Reporter Wan Jianhui Correspondent Ding Yuan) September 2 is the anniversary of the 185th anniversary of Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. Professor Tu Wenxue, the former vice president, told his latest research results: Zhang Zhidong launched many measures in the early 20th century to save the trend of the international tea industry trade in Hankou International Tea in the early 20th century.

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Tu Wenxue said that Hankou is a traditional tea distribution center in Central China, Southwest, and Southeast. In modern Chinese tea, the real starting point of "Wanli Tea Ceremony". "Hankou is the maximum market for tea in my country, exporting more than Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Jiujiang, generally accounting for about 60%of the country's total exports." Among Hankou's many export products, tea leaves have been improving foreign trade, almost half of the total export trade of Hankou, and Hankou's total export trade is half. "China exports soil goods with tea as the community, and the Yingying of Hankou Business is particularly dedicated to the prosperity of tea."

However, due to various reasons, since the 1880s, Hankou tea has gradually shrunk from foreign trade, from 86%of the world's tea consumption to only 25%.

After Zhang Zhidong was appointed Governor of Huguang, he attached great importance to tea planting, processing and trade. With the unremitting efforts of Zhang Zhidong, Hankou Tea Trade in the early 20th century "miraculously recovered".

Zhang Zhidong has launched many measures, including adjusting policies to persuade farmers to grow tea; change the planting method, promote scientific planting; advocate machine tea -making, improve the benefits of tea making and tea -making; Tea farmers breed tea to pick up tea and "pick up early refinement", do not fake fakes; ensure that the price of tea is high -quality, maintain a good business environment and market order. One of the typical examples is that the line design of the Wuchang to Yueyang section of the Guangdong -Han Dynasty Railway does not pass through the tea industry production and processing base Puyuyanglou Cave. On January 10, 1906, Zhang Zhidong called Zhang Price Fan, Sun Jiajun and Pu, members of the survey. The county magistrate, requiring "relocating to support", and changing the Yanglou Cave to reach the "road and business", which is convenient for tea transportation and trade.

The text is: "The E -Yue Railway is suitable for through the Yanglou Cave. Although the cloud is relocated to support, the roads and business are appropriate. It should be accurately accurately. The county and committees told the Japanese technicians, and they knew what the businessmen knew. " "Later, there was only the Guangdong -Han Dynasty Railway (Yanglou Dong) Zhao Liqiao Station.

Zhang Zhidong's measures for the revitalization of tea have achieved obvious results. "Before 1909, tea has always been the most important source of foreign exchange for Hankou, which has gradually won the name of the tea port."

[Edit: Deng La Xiu]

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