The origin of Tuo tea is not very detailed, like a classic auction of cultural relics so historical, very clear vein, but it can be inferred that it evolved from Tuan Tea. When ethnic minorities in Yunnan make tea, many of them suppress it, and then save it, store and transport it. Then there is this tuan tea before the cake tea.
Tuan cha is very simple, is pressed into a round spherical shape, everyone look at that Nguyen Phuc's "Pu'er Tea Record", said that Pu'er Province began to pay tribute to the Qing court tribute tea, tribute tea has a variety of flowers, the most important thing is the five-pound tuan tea, also known as rentou tea, like a human head, there are two pounds, one pound these are tuan tea. Why did that tea later become Tuo Tea? Tuo was supposed to be a lump next to the soil, because when this tuan tea was just processed after it was made, it was not easy to dissipate heat, and its water vapor was not easy to dry. Because a tight lump is wrapped tightly with a cloth, then the water vapor is not easy to disperse, it is not easy to dry, so it is easy to get wet in the rainy season.
In 1900, there was a Li Wenxiang in Jinggu, and he made a good improvement, that is, in the place where the tuancha cloth belt was knotted, he used a pestle and a wooden stick to press that tightly into it. Then it was originally a round spherical shape, and a hole was created underneath, like an inverted bowl, which became a bowl shape, which was very conducive to heat dissipation. , it is also very conducive to its drying, this time tuo tea is produced. Later, these teas were sold in large quantities in Jianyang City and Ziyang City in Sichuan Province at that time, that is, the Neijiang River Basin and the Tuojiang River Basin.
At that time, there was a saying called "Xiaguan Tea Tuojiang Water", The Xiaguan Tea Factory was established at that time, and the Kangzang Tea Factory was established during the Period of the National Government, and the main purpose of the Kangzang Tea Factory in Xiaguan was now Dali, producing Tuo tea for Tibet. But the tea offered to Tibet at that time was mushroom tea, that is, like a mushroom, not only had a half-spherical shape on it, but also a handlebar. Later, when I arrived at the Shimonoseki Tea Factory, according to the improvement of Jinggu, because it was easier to dissipate heat and was not easy to get moldy and damp, then I took the mushroom and pressed the knotted place into a hole to enter it, and it became a bowl shape. This is the origin of Tuo tea, mass production is the production of Xiaguan Tea Factory, mainly for Tibet, for Tibet on the one hand to provide convenience for the Tibetan people in Tibet, on the other hand is also the Kangzang Tea Factory, Xiaguan Tea Factory, before the Qing Dynasty, tea as a strategic material, to a certain extent of control of Tibet.