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Rice Brick is produced in the hometown of Chinese Green Rice Brick Tea – Yangloudong, Chibi, Hubei Province. Rice brick production history is longer, second only to the green brick. Hubei brick tea, originally operated by Shanxi Gang, first set up in E’nan Zhuang acquisition of gross tea processing brick tea, the middle of the 19th century, Xianning County, Yangloudong production of more than 800,000 pounds. Into the 19th century, due to the development of foreign trade, the Qing Daoguang years Yihong came out, to 1861 after the opening of the port of Hankou, Britain went to Hankou to set up a foreign bank, a large number of purchases of black tea, transshipment of the United Kingdom and transfer to the countries of Western Europe. wG4tea.com
At this time the Russian businessmen to buy brick tea, around 1863, Russian businessmen to go to the Yangloudong area to finance the recruitment of people chartered to supervise the production of brick tea. 1873 in Hankou to establish the Shunfeng, Xintai, Fuchang three new factories, the use of machinery to press the rice bricks, transshipment of Russia to change hands for export. The main raw materials from the Xiang, E, Gan, Anhui four provinces black tea tea pieces of tea, but also from India, Ceylon when the mouth part of the tea. Russia in the red mouth production and acquisition of brick tea, generally from Hankou through Shanghai shipping to Tianjin, and then generally transported to Tongzhou, and then use the camel team through Zhangjiakou across the desert road, transported to Chakotu, and finally transported by Chakotu to Siberia and other markets in Russia. wG4tea.com
Later also used the fleet to participate in transportation, transshipment through Vladivostok to Europe. According to the “Customs General Book of Commerce and Trade” statistics, from 1876 to 1879, rice brick exports in Hankou total exports of 13.4-26%, in 1879 exported 7,232.8 tons of rice bricks, accounting for 7.28% of the total national exports of tea at the time, in 1888 rose to account for the country’s exports of 12.91% of the total for the heyday of the production and export of rice brick. wG4tea.com
Currently produces more than a thousand tons, the main sales of the east mouth (refers to Zhangjiakou), west mouth (refers to Baotou) and all over Xinjiang. A small amount of sales in Europe, America and the Soviet Union. Because of the beautiful appearance of rice bricks, some western families to the rice bricks with refined frame into the living room, as a display of works of art to appreciate. wG4Tea.com