What is "Overseas Chinese Tea"?
In layman's terms, it is to go abroad, and the main consumer group is the export of tea from overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese.
For Chinese who have been influenced by tea culture since childhood, no matter where they go, they cannot do without this leaf from their hometown.
A cup of Chinese tea can relieve homesickness.
Exported to Southeast Asia for Wuyi Daffodil and Tieguanyin
There are many "overseas Chinese" in Fujian, and the Fujian people who love to work hard will also bring the tea leaves from their hometown to all corners of the world.
The tea produced in Fujian is mainly oolong tea, and there are also black tea and white tea. Overseas Chinese tea is mainly based on oolong tea, including Wuyi Rock Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, Yongchun Bergamot and so on.
At the beginning of the 20th century, many Fujian people living in Southeast Asia operated local tea shops and sold their hometown tea, with Wuyi Daffodil and Anxi Tieguanyin as the main varieties, and Tieguanyin was sold well in Southeast Asia at that time.
At that time, the road to Nanyang was long, and oolong tea took several months or even longer in the process of shipping, coupled with the fact that the marine environment was prone to moisture, and it needed to be baked again after arriving in Nanyang.
The local Chinese have developed the habit of drinking old tea and old tea. In particular, he likes to store old tea that is more than ten years and eight years old, and this custom still exists today.
Today, there are millions of Fujian overseas Chinese living in Southeast Asia, and Fujian's oolong tea has become a necessity for their daily lives.
Liupao tea exported to Malaysia
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the country was weakened, and millions of Chinese workers came to Malaysia to make a living by mining.
The working conditions of Chinese workers in the mine are extremely difficult, and the high-intensity physical labor combined with the local high temperature and high humidity environment has led to many people being infected, and heat stroke and rheumatism are more common occurrences.
Some Chinese workers accidentally found that after drinking Liupao tea brought from their hometown, these uncomfortable symptoms can be well alleviated, and since then Liupao tea has become a tea for miners to detoxify and detoxify, and the tea residue can also be used for bathing.
Liupao tea is native to Liubao Township, Cangwu County, Wuzhou, Guangxi.
Its raw materials are relatively coarse, after cooking steaming, can be stored for a long time, and the better the quality after storage and aging, there is a special betel nut fragrance, tea soup red thick, taste of chen alcohol.
At that time, the price of Tieguanyin and Wuyi Daffodils sold overseas was relatively high, and only wealthy families in Malaysia could enjoy them. Liupao tea is cheap and has special effects, so the audience is wider.
After the popularity of Liupao tea, in addition to miners, some groups with identity have gradually accepted, and Liupao tea has a higher popularity in the Chinese circle, and was once known as the first in the "overseas Chinese tea".
During the most vigorous period of Liupao tea sales, a large number of Cantonese merchants set up villages in Liupao, Guangxi to collect tea, and many famous tea houses appeared, and a large number of Liupao tea was continuously sold to Nanyang.
Stone Pavilion Green Tea, famous for its "overseas Chinese sales"
Shiting green tea is produced in the area of Lotus Peak in Jiuri Mountain, Fengzhou Town, Nan'an City, Fujian Province. Nine Days Mountain is known as the "starting point of the Maritime Silk Road".
In ancient times, senior officials of Quanzhou Prefecture and The Municipal Shipping Department held a grand ceremony every year at the temple at the southern foot of The Nine-Day Mountain to worship the sea god, pray for merchants to travel back and forth on the sea, and seal them on the stone walls.
Shiting green tea has a long history, belongs to the roasted green tea, the earliest for the monastery monks near the Lotus Peak made, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty at home and abroad, the most prosperous period of production, the products with the sea ship exported to Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, the Philippines and other countries and regions. Shiting tea is also one of the earliest "overseas Chinese tea".
Seven Sons Cake Tea exported to Hong Kong
Qizi Cake Tea is the traditional packaging of Yunnan Pu'er Tea, and every seven pieces of Cake Tea are packaged into a barrel for easy carrying and long-term storage.
Qizi cake tea is also known as "overseas Chinese sales round tea" and "overseas Chinese sales seven sons tea". The export of Qizi cake tea began at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1930, Maoheng Shang set up branches in Hong Kong, India and Myanmar in China, and at the same time operated Tibetan-sold tight tea and overseas Chinese-sold Qizi Cake Tea.
By the republic of China period, the raw materials and production process of Qizi Cake Tea had been finalized. Most of the overseas Chinese round tea represented by the "red seal" is sold to tea houses in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. These cake teas have traveled across the sea to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and after years of aging and natural fermentation, they have shown the mellow charm of Chen Xiang and are widely popular.
Where there are Chinese, there is the aroma of tea.
The soil, customs and human feelings of the hometown have given this piece of tea that has crossed the ocean, which fills the lips and teeth and on the heart.
"The state has boundaries, and tea has no boundaries." Between bounded and unbounded, the taste that fills the whole world is the taste of China.