"Tribute tea", is tribute to the distant capital, for people who are not familiar with the history of Pu'er tea, it is difficult to associate this remote town of southern Yunnan Mengla with the word "tribute tea", many people know the tribute tea, is the eighteen tea trees in Longjing Royal Tea Garden, but people who are familiar with the history of Pu'er tea understand the status of the ancient six mountains in the history of Pu'er tea, and the status of Yi Wu in the ancient six mountains.
When it comes to Pu'er, there are two mountains that are eternal topics, one is the Brown Mountain in Menghai, and the other is Yiwu in Mengla. If we talk about history, the old Ban Zhang, He Kai, and Ban Pen can only be regarded as younger brothers in front of the famous villages of Yiwu, such as Mahei, Bending Bow, and Yifan Mo.
If it comes to inheritance, Yi Wuruo is the first, and no one dares to call the second.
Today, the "la" of Mengla County, to which Yiwu belongs, means "tea". Legend has it that Shakyamuni traveled to this county with two characters called "Mengla", which means flat dam or area. At that time, people offered a lot of tea, and when they couldn't finish drinking, they poured it into the river, and the river was named "Nanla", that is, "Chashui River", and "Mengla" was named after it.
And Yi Wu is also famous all over the world because of tea.
Tea has been cultivated here for at least 1,000 years. During the Qing Daoguang period, when the tea mountains such as Yibang and Mangzhi gradually declined, Yiwu Tea Mountain rose rapidly and became the distribution center and production place of tea produced by the six major tea mountains, as well as the birthplace of the ancient tea horse road and the old tea "grade tea", thus creating a turning point in the history of Pu'er tea.
"Six major tea mountains, Yiwu occupies one and a half mountains", the area of Yiwu Tea Mountain ranks first among the six major tea mountains.
Yiwu is called Dai language. Yi means female, and Wu means snake, meaning "where beautiful snakes live". Fertile land, abundant rain, warm climate formed a hotbed for the vigorous growth of Yiwu tea, under the baptism of time, set the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, extract the essence of the sun and the moon, precipitate amazing quality, not only rich in tea varieties, but also thick tea quality, tea aroma far-reaching.
Maybe you are gentle and generous, maybe you have a nervous breakdown, and you can't stand the suffering of old Man'e, the tyrant of old Ban Zhang, but Chajun believes that in the face of Yi Wu, you must be difficult to hold yourself.
Yiwu tea from the deep mountains and old forests, the mountain and wild breath is strong, but the sweetness is fast, and then the lips and tongue are full of sweet fragrance, which is probably the beautiful characteristics of Yiwu tea: not very irritating, sweet but mellow, the aroma is not a high type, but with a nectar fragrance.
▌The tea maker said:
The color, aroma, taste, shape, and qi of tea, the color can fade, the fragrance can be dispersed, the taste can be changed, the shape can be changed, all can be transformed by the change of time and space, only the breath of tea, the essence of the first heaven and earth is condensed after processing and storage, which is the source of the life energy of tea.
Empty all tea routines, let's taste a tea of Yiwu. Take a dip in the soup, close your eyes in your mouth, and let it wander through your throat: soft and powerful, rich and coordinated, jumping to peace, joy to the picture.
Incense, water, tea... Or, clean. Yi Wu's tea may be able to cover all of these aspects.
Yi Wu's tea, no one seems to be able to say her shortcomings, she is always unfrightening and makes people addicted and fascinated. Countless tea people, exhausting their talents to try to describe the unique charm of Yiwu tea, can only lament their mediocre qualifications.
It can be said that whether it is an old tea customer who is accustomed to the world, or a tea Xiaobai who has just started drinking tea, he will be inextricable in the "gentle township" of Yiwu tea.
"Yiwu tea represents the finest taste of the Eastern Empire", this view is the most widely circulated and has become the consensus of the tea industry.
A few years ago, Pu'er tea arrived in the capital and captured the masters of those empires, who in turn established a complete set of Eastern order and civilization through the nourishment of tea.
In history, Yiwu is an important starting point of the ancient road of Yunnan-Tibet tea horses, Yiwu town is a famous tribute tea town in history, as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, merchants and merchants have gathered, lively, and still maintain the tradition of growing tea, picking tea, making tea and selling tea.
Yiwu people regard tea as a spiritual thing of "ascending to the heavenly gods and descending to the lower house", forming a variety of national tea-drinking customs and tea cultures, among which the "seven villages and eight villages" of Yiwu Zhengshan are the most distinctive.
▌Seven villages: Mahei, Takayama Village, Sinkhole, Manxiu, Sanhesha, Yibi, Mansa;
▌Bazhai: Wind Village, Dingjiazhai (Yao), Dingjiazhai (Han), Old Temple, Qide, Dazhai, Zhangjiawan, Xinzhai.
In the "Tribute Tea Conference" we saw this time, the good tea of the local "seven villages and eight villages" is the protagonist.
Some people say that many people like Yiwu when they first drink tea because of the sweet and soft aroma. After that, someone will try to find all kinds of stimuli, find freshness, find violent sensations. But when he drinks a certain time, he will turn back to drink Yi Wu, and finally find Yi Wu's fierceness. It's a bit of a back to basics.
Yi Wu even conforms to Chinese traditional personalities: tolerant, restrained, elegant, soft on the outside, rigid on the inside, and approachable. For thousands of years, Yi Wu has conquered almost everyone who loves it with its gentleness and connotation, so Yi Wu is rightly called "after Pu'er".
Perhaps, many people who drink Pu'er tea start with Yi Wu and will eventually return to Yi Wu!