Yingde Tea Culture: three decades of brilliant black tea

Yingde tea has a long history of formation and development of tea culture has a long history, the trajectory of its development can be traced back 1200 years ago in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Tang Yu book "Tea-eight of the" (764 years) contains: "Lingnan students Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xaucea, like state ......, and often have of their excellent taste." Planting tea was Xaucea including Britain and Germany, Qujiang and so on. According to the "world's tea industry for 100 years," the study demonstrate Chinese Tea Research Institute Chengqi Kun, 庄雪岚 two fellow editor: "The Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties Xaucea Qujiang, Renhua, Britain and Germany and other counties have tea," "the Ming Dynasty before he became one of Yingde, Guangdong Province, 11 tea-producing counties; Guangdong Province, is one of 70 tea-producing counties Ming Dynasty; after the Opium War was one of 84 tea-producing county in Guangdong "visible Yingde tea planting and production. long history of tea.

Tea production flourished promotes the formation of tea culture. According to historical records: the Tang dynasty, Yingde (when Zhen County), Nanshan scenic area has a "Zhu Ming Taiwan" one; Nanshan Song "public Leting" Cliff says: "carved cliffs between Han Hui Gu, Ling smoke peaks, Feixia Ridge, the Greek sun Island, Zhu Ming Taiwan, cold Chui Ting, all Chinese relics. "Southern Song Yingzhou magistrate Wang Ren had "cooked US Ming" Praise poetry titled "Zhu Ming Taiwan": "Shihti one thousand Zhang Li OK, OK mountainside enough to suspend; tour Jia Gou Ji Lingquan cook, thirsty heart moisture trapped magic awake "; and the" tea-line hospital for laughing, troubled landscape painting halo bar ", and other poems. Visible, Yingde tea in the Tang Dynasty style of the people has been very popular. Since the rise of the tea industry, producing more than made Jiaming was listed as imperial tribute. According to historical load, the Ming Dynasty tribute tea produced in Yingde tribute to the imperial court. Also, according to Chen Qing Emperor Kangxi's written right "rebuilt Yingde County · contribution" records: "seven pounds seven two-leaf tea, Guo Chao: bud fourteen pounds five ounces, a tribute to the imperial court," when in fact the territory of the Qing Dynasty Yingde County tea throughout the four townships. According to the Qing dynasty, "Paper 16 properties Yingde County Chapter of tea" and reads: "Red Zhu camellia, Shek Lin Heung blue camellia, tea lady Ridge peaks, Tou Township Huang Ling, Tsuruko Fushan township tea are odd items ... . ... "Xuantong" Yingde County "is written:" Tea production Luokeng, Tai Po, Hong Wu Nai Hang those ancient pure taste, such as flutter Mao disabilities, special vulgar true nature remainder gold Hill, waterside, Lebanon hole, yellow. Village and other premises producing far more incompetent ...... Goro mountains tea smells absolutely clear, Kwun Yam Shan Shan also old tea tea. "However, when planting is" small clusters of stems and long, tip like that kind of lobular tea with the development of foreign trade, Yingde tea had in the first half of the 19th century 叶兴盛 of a sudden, after the war because of the endless, gradually shrinking exports, to the early 20th century tea barren, withered tea industry, tea trade almost disappeared .......

Even so, after all, is an ancient Anglo-German tea area, tea customs still strong, both urban and rural, tea has become a common custom, deposited into a cultural phenomenon, but I do not know at what time (has been unable to sophisticated) also derived from a well-known "Leicha porridge" food culture. Such food "Leicha porridge" phenomenon than drink, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces, "Lei Cha" has the same purpose, to become one of the contents of this tea culture unique to the region.

Yingde tea culture to create a brilliant history

Eve of the founding, Yingde tea production has come to a situation seems to be absent, according to the records, to 1950 the county was only tea plantation area of 30 hectares, tea production was only three tons (3,000 kg). Of course, these are the remnants of tea produced sporadic, and most are low quality "earth green tea." Neither the scale nor into the market, there were only tea stall or the date when the right to fair barter exchange only.

1956 The first modern novel tea (single row of column-type) was born in the provincial Yingde tea plantation, the first introduction of Yunnan large leaf tea plantation species success. Then the second and third batch ...... continuous development. Tea plantation in the state planted successfully promote and support a collective JO tea plantation also emerged. Under the leadership of the Anglo-German government, the mass movement of planting tea booming. Because leaders at all levels of attention, support and positive actions of the masses of the various departments, the tea planting campaign, Bang Bao its momentum of fast large-scale, speed, unprecedented. The first planting tea climax (1964 1967?) Total development of new tea over 2500 hectares; second planting tea climax (1973 975 years, the development of new tea plantation 800 hectares;? Third planting tea climax (1987 1988)? the development of dual-row and thick tea over 2200 hectares. Yingde area three times the total development of new tea tea climax over 5500 ares, becoming one of the focus on tea production. Meanwhile, the completion of five annual production of more than 500 tons of black tea early refined one of the large mechanized tea plants and 40 small semi-mechanized blue, green tea plant.

With the development of tea production, the first came in 1959 Yingde tea. 1960 in Guangdong Province Tea Tea Import and Export Company congratulates Electric, said: "1959 tea products, tea by the Soviet Union and China expert assessment, the tea has reached the international advanced level, to improve the reputation of Chinese traditional export commodities." Sixties invest in large quantities after the domestic and international market, the Anglo-German Xianshuang tea its unique style and quality worthy of concentrated strong with India, Sri Lanka tea comparable and renowned at home and abroad. 1965 Professor Fang Zhuang night, one of contemporary China's four experts in Yingde tea plantation as the report said: "You do grade tea in 1962 (referring to broken black), opened for the first shot of the export in the market greatly affected, foreigners do not believe, suspected Ceylon tea (ie Sri Lanka), "in fact, according to the Hong Kong market to reflect:." shape and endoplasmic Yingde tea with Sri Lanka sold to Hong Kong, similar to black tea, its color Run black and red. Jiucun difficult to change, for better than Sri Lanka. "because of this, the Anglo-German annual production of 4,000 tons of tea exported to Western Europe, North America, Oceania and the Middle East more than 70 countries and regions, famous, renowned in the world, and has become an important pillar of China's second kind of big-leaf broken black tea exports. As a result, Chinese tea known as a rising star in Yingde tea, black tea in a new flower, an odd Court. Yingde County, Guangdong Province, known as the famous "tea town."