Nanyang Liupao tea origin is Wuzhou, Guangxi, China, mainly sold to the Nanyang countries, thanks to the prosperity of the waterway transportation at that time, merchants with the Xijiang this golden waterway will be South China, Southwest China, southwest of the rich products at the lowest cost to Guangzhou, and then from Guangzhou re-export export, tea is one of the important ones.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: Liupao tea has the effect of cooling and relieving heat, warming the stomach and refreshing, strengthening the spleen and helping digestion, can cure heat stroke cold, vomiting and stomach pain, and expelling greasy, especially Chen tea. During the Qing Dynasty, Liupao tea was included in the list of 24 famous teas in China for its special efficacy and aroma, and was selected as "tribute tea" to pay tribute to the imperial court.
In the seventeenth century, a large number of Chinese "went to Nanyang", the largest number of people is Malaysia, Malaysia's climate is high and humid, coupled with the working environment is very harsh, many Chinese workers are very uncomfortable at the beginning, often have fever and heat stroke, back pain, easy miasma, etc., but also because they often need to soak their feet in water to wash the silt, very susceptible to rheumatism and joint pain, and some people have strange diseases, and even died shortly after falling ill, which once caused panic.
At that time, "falling into Nanyang" was a helpless choice, which often meant that the environment was harsh, difficult, hard-working, and uncertain.
Later, the Chinese slowly discovered that some people who often drank Liupao tea brought from their hometown rarely got sick. Especially the chinese workers who have just arrived, the water and soil are not satisfied, the vomiting is non-stop, and often after brewing a pot of strong Liupao tea, it is quickly alleviated. For a time, the miraculous effect of Liupao tea was widely spread by the Chinese people, and even deified as a "panacea". Chinese workers with a little more money on hand will even buy more in case they need it.
Liupao tea can be stored for a long time, and has the characteristics of cooling down and dampness, moisturizing the intestines and nourishing the stomach, and the tea taste unchanged overnight, making it a daily necessity for Chinese people in Nanyang to save their lives. It is called a "life-saving tea" that can cure diseases.
These effects of Liupao tea were soon used by the owners of various mines, many of whom placed several large water tanks on the edge of the mine, covered with wooden boards, and served Liupao tea to the miners every day. Some mine owners often emphasize that there is a free supply of Liupao tea when recruiting Chinese miners, so as to attract workers. Early in the morning, the first thing the miners did when they came to the mine was to carry their tea pots to the big vat to fill the six castles of tea. Later, the Chinese miners and rubber tappers at that time drank Liupao tea after working under the scorching sun, not only as a kind of rest after work, but also valued its special health care effect, as a good medicine for conditioning the stomach and intestines in daily life, and the low-priced Liupao tea would even be taken to bathe by miners after a hard day to eliminate fatigue and deodorize health care.
Since then, Liupao tea has been exported in large quantities, and has been loaded with pointed boats at the Liupao Hekou Street Wharf, exchanged for large wooden boats through Libu, entered the He River, passed through the Fengchuan River, entered the Xijiang River, and then loaded and unloaded into the big boats through the capital city, transported to Guangzhou, and then re-exported to Nanyang and the rest of the world, this waterway is also known as the "Tea Boat Ancient Road".
Nanyang Chinese workers' admiration for Liupao tea, Liupao tea is extremely popular overseas, almost every household in Liupao has tea, and everyone makes tea.
"Guangxi Specialties Zhiluo" said: "In Cangwu's largest production, and for the specialty, the first to promote Liupao tea, as far as its six forts and one district (five forts, four forts) have tea, but not as much as the six forts, the annual exporters, the output of more than 600,000 pounds, in 1926 ~ 1927, each quintal is estimated at about thirty yuan." ”
In those years when Liupao tea was extremely prosperous, the boats lined up at the Hekou wharf could not see their heads at a glance, and the boats shuttled back and forth on the Liubao River, the Dong'an River, and the He River; the Guangdong merchants on the shore even raised prices for each other in order to compete for ships; the docks and markets on both sides of the strait were increasing, and the boats and cars were radiating and flourishing for a while.
"Going to the South China Sea" was a helpless move by countless Chinese in that era to avoid the flames of war, and it was a bitter history. A cup of six forts, a wisp of nostalgia, and it is the irrevocable homesickness in the hearts of the Nanyang Chinese, writing a majestic chapter of liupao tea going overseas. It was during that special historical period that Liupao tea sold to Hong Kong, Macao and Nanyang formed a fixed consumer group, and the Chinese community in Southeast Asia was spread.