There is a story about the origin of seven sons cake tea. According to legend, in the past in Pu’er sleepy Lu mountain, there is a Lu family, poor family, planting tea for a living, the family has seven sons and a daughter. l0u tea net
Seven sons grew up, inherited their father’s tea business, respectively, by picking wild tea in the mountains for a living, long down in the place where they married, settled down, had children, and each according to one side. l0u tea net
Only every year on their parents’ birthday to return to Pu’er, and with cotton bags packed with their own picking the best tea to bring home, tea along the way squeezed into a cake, but the flavor is better. l0u tea net
The old man cherished the tea sent by his sons, with bamboo shells wrapped together and stored, to be the next year or years later, the family came to a good friend, the guests, take out to entertain the guests. l0u tea net
Guests to see its color, smell its fragrance, taste its flavor after the praise, asked about the source and name of the tea, the old man will be proud to point to the bamboo shells group of guests said: “This is my seven sons.” l0u tea net
Later, “seven sons to worship life” and “seven sons cake tea” has become a local story, the reputation is getting louder and louder, many tea people, tea merchants have come to the name of the “seven sons cake tea”, around the tea houses, tea merchants have followed suit. The tea shop, tea merchants have also followed suit, the seven son cake is therefore passed down to the present day. l0u tea net