Mengdingshan tea history development, culture introduction. 2SqTea.com
Mengshan is also known as Mengding Mountain. From the Han Dynasty Mengshan first artificial tea planting pioneer to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mengshan tea through the years, although there has been a trough, but Mengding Mountain ancient tea varieties, superior ecological environment, superb tea-making techniques are still inherited plus, the production of famous tea endless. 2Sq tea net
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Tea in Sichuan before the Qin and Han Dynasties
Sichuan is the birthplace of tea civilization, tea drinking, tea planting, tea production has a long history. The Record of the Day” said: “since the Qin people take Shu and then, began to have tea drinking thing”. Huayang Guozhi – Ba Zhi” records: “King Wu of Zhou to conquer the Zhou Dynasty, really got the division of Ba Shu ……, soil planted grains …… dan lacquer tea honey …… are tribute to. ” Contemporary tea saint Wu Juanong in the “Tea Scripture Review” that: “This shows that as early as 1066 BC, King Wu of Zhou rate of eight small countries in the south of the crusade, Ba Shu has been used to produce tea as tribute.” 2Sq Tea
Tea planting in Mengshan during the Han Dynasty
The General History of the Tea Industry argues that; “Tea planting in Mengshan is the earliest written chronicle in China. The mountain of the original monk is Zu Chong in Yongzheng six years (1728) to set up a monument to record its tea planting history, the monument is still there, is the earliest evidence of China’s tea planting.” 2Sq Tea Net
The above record is said to be Wu Lizhen in the case of tea planting in Mengshan, the time in the Western Han Dynasty during the Ganlu (i.e., 53 ~ 50 years BC). This is the earliest documented artificial planting of tea first person, known as the ancestor of tea planting. 2Sq Tea Net
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Tang Dynasty is the peak period of the development of Meng Ding tea
The two Jin Dynasty and the North and South Dynasty period of political turmoil, war, population decline, economic destitution, people can not survive, at this time to talk about production, culture, tea history is also blank. 2Sq Tea Net
To the Tang Dynasty, production development, national strength, Meng Ding Gong tea “number for the first”, in China’s history occupies an important position. Anhui Chao County county magistrate Yang Ye “Cuisinart handbook” contains: “Beginning, Shu tea got the name of Meng Ding also. In the Yuan and before, bundles of silk can not be a catty first spring Meng Ding. Is to Meng Ding before and after the people, competing planting tea to peep thick profits. Not a few decades, so Sian grass market, the year out of ten million pounds.” Liu Yuxi also has a poem: “not to mention the Mengshan Guzhu spring, white mud and red seal go dust.” Tang dynasty geography representative of the Yuanhe County Records recorded: “Mengshan, ten miles south of the county. Now every year tribute tea, the most for Shu.” 2Sq tea net
Song Dynasty to tea easy horse-based
Song Dynasty Sichuan tea development is rapid, the number of the country’s top, showing two characteristics: due to the needs of the war, Sichuan tea has become the focus of the tea to horse; at the same time, the emperor hobby to determine the fate of the tribute tea, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty “Daguan Tea Theory”: “the rise of the dynasty, years of construction of the Creek’s Tribute, the dragon and phoenix cake, the name of the world.” Tribute tea focus moved to build tea. 2Sq tea net
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Yuan dynasty mongolian tea suffered a devastating blow
Mongolian army into sichuan, yazhou and neighboring counties are also in the disaster, the territory of the good harvest of the fields into military fields, agricultural waste, tea production fell, production is less than 6% of the song dynasty. 2Sq tea net
Mengshan tea recovery and development in the Ming Dynasty
Meng Ding tea from the devastating blow to gradually enter the process of recovery and development, and by the tea development direction change and the constraints of the border tea production. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Mengshan because of its surrounding mountains have been easy to other names, the development of tea from the group cake to loose tea. 2Sq tea net
In addition to the expansion of border tea production, tea to horse number increased, border tea production side by side unstoppable. 2SqTea.net
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Qing dynasty immortal tea selected ancestor worship
Qing Dynasty, the former glory and leading position of Meng Ding tea has ceased to exist, into the recovery and development stage. Successor to the previous generation of production of the name of Ganlu, yellow buds, stone flowers, Wanchun silver leaf, jade leaf Changchun. It is commendable that the Qing Dynasty royal family selected Meng Ding Xian tea to sacrifice to heaven and ancestor, inherited for many years. 2Sq Tea Net
The article content is extracted from the “Mengshan tea culture, history and story canon” edited by Mr. Li Jiaguang and Mr. Chen Shuqian. 2SqTea.com
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