Tea has had a very high status in China since ancient times, such as the life of ordinary people, there is a saying of "chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea".
But for the Chinese people, in addition to daily meals, tea is also an indispensable necessity of life.
Since the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, the trade between the Central Plains and the nomadic peoples outside the Cyprus, tea is one of the main trade items, occupying a pivotal position in various types of commodities.
For modern people, the body nutrition is balanced, and most of the role of tea will only be reflected in the refreshing piece.
But in ancient times, it was different, the farming peoples in the Central Plains were better, even if they could not drink tea, but they would not have much negative impact on the body.
However, for the nomadic people outside the Cyprus, the role of tea is almost on par with the main dietary nutrition.
The reason is that most of the nomadic people are mainly meat-eating live dairy products, although these things are full and hungry, but in the long run, eating these things will cause constipation and other negative effects.
The tea polyphenols and a series of trace elements contained in tea can effectively solve this physiological problem of nomadic peoples.
Not only does it help with digestion, but most of the nomadic people live by water and grass, and there is no condition for eating melons, fruits and vegetables at all.
This also leads to the lack of vitamins in nomadic people, the life expectancy can generally only reach between forty and fifty years old, and the nutrients in tea can also solve the problem of vitamin deficiency.
As a common drink in life, tea can be drunk by almost everyone.
But, you know what? There is a kind of tea that is actually more expensive than gold! A pound of "leaves" is worth 5 million yuan, and troops are sent to guard it all day, what is sacred?
Big Red Robe
There are many types of tea, such as Pu'er, Tieguanyin, Longjing and so on.
Among them, it is divided into green tea and black tea, and the difference is that green tea is: fresh leaves, greening, drying.
Black tea, on the other hand, withers, ferments, and dries.
The efficacy of the two is different, for example, it is often said that green tea is more refreshing than black tea.
Although black tea is not as refreshing as green tea, it is more conducive to gastrointestinal digestion than green tea.
Da Hong Pao is also famous in all kinds of tea, its taste is high and strong, full of strength, and the taste is warm and mellow, the aroma is delicate and long, it can be called the best in tea.
The source of the Da Hong Pao variety comes from several mountain tea trees in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province.
These tea trees are amazing, they are now growing in the Wuyi Mountain Jiulongjiao Scenic Area, is a real national treasure.
As early as 2000, these three six mother trees have become world natural cultural heritage.
Prior to this, because of the preciousness of the DaHongpao mother tree, the state has not relaxed the key protection of these six mother trees, and the local government naturally does not dare to slack off, and has always been the key protection object of the government.
As far back as the Republic of China era, the local government had a precedent of sending troops to guard these three mother trees, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the army that originally guarded the mother tree was dismissed.
However, the importance attached to these three mother trees has not changed in the slightest, and they have been replaced by the People's Liberation Army to guard, which has further ensured the safety of the mother trees.
The reason why it took so much trouble to send an army to protect the three trees was to talk about the high value of the Dahongpao tea produced by the mother tree of Wuyi Mountain.
The so-called "one or two gold, one or two teas" refers to the big red robe produced by the mother tree of Wuyi Mountain.
The rarer something is, the more precious it is, the gold is so, and even more so with the fur of wild animals.
The only three mother trees in the world, from this point of view alone, are enough to say it all.
What's more, this is not only three old trees, but also the tree can produce people's favorite tea leaves, and the taste of this tea is even more wonderful.
How can such a rare treasure not cause the world to go crazy?
Tea culture
China's tea culture has a long history, it can be said that tea is not only a common drink in the lives of Chinese people, but also represents some of the essence of Chinese culture.
From the Prime Minister of Heaven to the pawns of the peddlers, who has not drunk a sip of tea?
Literati and scholars drink tea, listen to the wind Xiao Xie, a cup of tea in front of the table, sit and watch the clouds cirrus in the sky, a book in their hands, who dares to say that the scribes are not flowing?
Ordinary people in the city, on weekdays, have nothing to do, they love to go to the tea house and tea house, listen to such a small song, and talk to the neighbors who come to the mountain, life is leisurely and comfortable.
Lu Yu, the tea saint who wrote the "Tea Sutra", was abandoned by his parents on the outskirts of the mountains since he was a child, but fortunately he was adopted by the zen master Zhi ji, the abbot of the temple, and raised him.
Because he grew up in the temple since childhood, although Lu Yu did not become a monk, he was influenced by Buddhist thought.
As a person like tea, indifferent to fame and fortune, he loved to drink tea and drink tea all his life, and it was rumored that he looked extremely ugly, but he was broad-minded, and he was mostly in the company of the poets and inkers at that time.
The origin of the name of this big red robe is precisely related to the good deeds of a temple.
Legend has it that when a reader passed through Wuyi Mountain, because of the rugged mountain road and the hunger and thirst in his stomach, he directly fainted on the side of the mountain road.
The abbot master of the Tianxin Temple on Wuyi Mountain happened to go out and met this reader who had fainted on the side of the road.
Life in the monastery was very hard, and the abbot had nothing good to entertain him.
Fortunately, there are three tea trees growing in the mountains, and the natural growth in the mountains and forests can also be called good tea.
So he boiled a bowl of tea soup with tea leaves and let the reader drink it, and gradually, the reader's illness was miraculously cured.
He bid farewell to the abbot and rushed to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, and actually won the top spot in the list of the department, the son of Tianzi protégé Yuanlang.
When the emperor asked about his experience, the reader told the old abbot's life-saving grace on Wuyi Mountain, and he was even more praised by the three tea trees, and he admired the tea leaves plucked from the tea trees, and vaguely had the feeling of the world's miracle medicine.
The emperor was quite touched after hearing this, so he specially asked this Yuanlang to return to Wuyi Mountain to thank the three tea trees for their grace of reconstruction.
Zhuangyuan Lang was ordered to return to Wuyi Mountain, first thanking the abbot master who rescued him, and then going to the place where the three tea trees grew, draping the red robe given by the emperor on the tea tree, and holding a solemn thank you ceremony.
After the red robe was removed, the branches and leaves of the tea tree were reflected by the sunlight, and there were actually wisps of red light, which is the origin of the name Da Hong Pao.
The tea leaves plucked from these three mother trees are absolutely comparable to the price of gold at the current price.
However, the price of five million a pound is only estimated according to the price of previous auction transactions.
In fact, tea plucked from the mother tree rarely flows into the market.
The annual output is not even enough to supply the central government, and where is the excess to sell.
In other words, the price of five million is only a market valuation, in fact, there is no market, and it is difficult to buy it with money.