3iI Tea Network
Grab a handful of tea leaves, boiling water after drinking juice and discard the residue, which is the most common way of drinking tea in modern times. However, China’s tea culture experts on the southwest region of the ethnic groups “eat tea” custom of history and the current situation of large-scale investigation found that in the tea origin and the surrounding mountainous areas of a number of provinces, Miao, Dong, Yao, Dai, Gelao, Tujia and other ethnic groups are still preserving the guest to please “eat tea! The custom of “eating tea”.
Southwest China is the world’s center of origin of tea, the history of the use of tea can be traced back to at least 3,000 years ago in the Western Zhou period. From raw sun medicinal, cooked food as a dish, cooking and drinking to today’s brewing straight, tea has become the world’s favorite health drink. Southwest Agricultural University Professor Liu Qinjin said: “In addition to ethnic minorities ‘eating tea’, remote mountainous areas of the Han people also have ‘eating tea’ custom. There are two main ways to ‘eat tea’, one is to add many condiments or spices to the tea and eat it together; the other is to add the tea with grain. Among the 23 ‘tea-eating’ ethnic groups, 16 of them swallow the tea powder along with the tea when they ‘eat tea’!” 3iI Tea Network
“Eat tea” custom of the distribution and the ancient tea area close relationship, its raw materials are mostly self-picked and self-made local tea, at the same time, the evolution of this custom and geographic conditions, transportation, the economy also has a close relationship with the impact of the tea culture by the Central Plains, the more convenient the transportation, “Eat Tea” national more and more gradual use of bubble tea. The more convenient transportation, “eat tea” national more gradually adopted the method of tea. 3iI Tea Network