Seven in China is a very auspicious number, seven children as a symbol of many children, seven children cake tea shaped like a full moon, for the traditional export of Yunnan, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, for the overseas Chinese loved as a gift or gift to friends and relatives, so there are overseas sales of round tea, overseas sales of seven children cake tea said. xox tea net
Round has the connotation of reunion, seven children for the meaning of many blessings and many children. A tube of seven cakes, each cake net weight of 357 grams, diameter of about 7 inches (21 centimeters), tube body about 7 inches (21 centimeters). The planned economy era to the end of the 1990s, the state-owned Menghai Tea Factory Production cake tea has been the market mainstream tea, raw materials to three to six levels of the main, raw tea, Wojiu ripe tea tea products are produced. xox tea net
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The regulation of the seven children is from the Qing Dynasty, the “Qing dynasty canon examples” in: “Yongzheng thirteen years” (1735) to allow, Yunnan business tea, the Department of each seven rounds of a tube, weighing forty-nine two (3.6 city catty. 1.8 kilograms). Xox Tea Net
Tax silver a point, every hundred pounds to a quote, should be tea thirty-two tubes for a quote, each quote tax silver three money and two cents. In thirteen years for the beginning, awarded to the tea cited three thousand. Here, the qing government stipulated the yunnan Tibetan sales tea for seven tea, but at that time there was no such reference. The early and mid Qing dynasty, seven round a tube was originally the Qing government in order to standardize the measurement, standardize the production and transportation of a standard. xox tea net
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the form of tea system becomes more, such as Bao Sen Tea House appeared small five round tea, in order to distinguish, people will be every seven for a cylinder of round tea packaging form known as “seven round tea”, but it is not a commodity or trade name. xox tea net
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In the early Republic of China, in the face of the chaos of the weight of the tea cake, the pressure of competition, some regions set up a tea chamber of commerce, trying to unify, if the Simao Tea Chamber of Commerce in the Republic of China in about ten years agreed. Each round of tea base material shall not exceed 6 two, but the wealth and the New Territories background of the “Lei Yongfeng” number but the production of each round of 6 two and a half money per barrel of eight round tea “eight round tea”, unfair competition, the market share of a moment of great increase. xox tea net
After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, tea state-run, Yunnan Tea Company’s tea factories with the company’s trademark production in the “tea brand” round tea. In the early 1970s, Yunnan Tea Import and Export Corporation wanted to know more appealing, more conducive to publicity and promotion of the name, they changed the “round” to “cake”, forming this auspicious name “seven cake tea “. This time, the Chinese tea brand faded out, and the round tea appellation also exited the stage. xox tea net