Do you know the historical changes of Wuyi mountain rock tea? Suggestions to like + pay attention to 1, WuyiShan is the hometown of oolong tea and black tea, the historical evolution of Wuyishan rock tea 2, Tang Dynasty: Tang Xuanzong in 784 edicted Wuyishan as a "famous mountain and river" 3, Song Dynasty: Wuyi tea is in a prosperous period, mainly making dragon tuan phoenix cake tea. 4, the Yuan Dynasty: mainly make cake tea. 5. Ming Dynasty: Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to "strike the dragon group and reform the production of loose tea". 6, qing dynasty: is the era of the great development of Wuyi tea 7, the Republic of China period: second, about the wuyi mountain rock rhyme statement: fourth, the classification of rock tea: da hong pao, daffodils, cinnamon, famous fir, odd species 1, da hong pao 2, daffodil 3, cinnamon 4, four famous congs: iron luohan, water turtle, white chicken crown, half a day demon (harrier) 5, odd species

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Song Fanzhong drowned in poetry clouds: "The strange tea by the stream crowns the world, and the Wuyi immortals are planted from ancient times." From this, it can be seen that Wuyi rock tea has a long history.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > Wuyishan is the hometown of oolong tea and black tea</h1>

Wuyi Mountain tea has a long history, for thousands of years, Wuyi ancestors have used diligence and wisdom to create wuyi tea with excellent quality and variety, accumulated rich production technology experience and profound tea culture and ideological concepts, and left us a lot of material and intangible valuable wealth. It also forms a unique local tea ceremony, including unique tea fighting, tea tasting methods and tea culture concepts.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="117" >, the historical evolution of Wuyishan rock tea</h1>

Back to the main point, Wuyi tea has been passed down for more than 2,000 years since it was passed down.

Wuyi tea, in the Tang and Song dynasties, mainly with tuan cake tea and steamed green sun green loose tea, the Ming Dynasty appeared fried green tea, the Ming Dynasty early development of oolong tea (rock tea), black tea, dragon whisker tea. Wuyi Mountain is the birthplace of oolong tea and black tea.

1. Han Dynasty: In 110 BC, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty sent an army to destroy the Minyue State, and ordered the minyue people to be moved between Jianghuai and Huaibei to make the land empty. Local officials offered Wuyi tea to Emperor Wu of Han, and the tribute of Wuyi Tea began with Emperor Wu of Han. However, there is no record of tea produced in Wuyi Mountain in the Han Dynasty in the historical records. Archaeological findings: Among the tens of thousands of pottery at the Hancheng ruins in Chengcun, there are a large number of tea sets - teapots and teacups, which confirms the fact that the ancestors of the Han Dynasty Minyue State planted tea and drank tea.

The ruins of Chengcun Hancheng are located 1 km southwest of Chengcun, Xingtian Town, Wuyishan City, and were discovered in 1958

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="149" >2, Tang Dynasty: Tang Dynasty: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang named Wuyi Mountain a "famous mountain and river" in 784</h1>

Taoism lists Wuyishan as the sixteenth liter of the "Thirty-Six Cave Heavens" zhenyuanhua cave heaven, Buddhist temples are also flourishing, Wuyishan fame is increasing, according to Lin Xiangrui, Liu Zuxi's "Brief History of Fujian" recorded: "The local specialties of Fujian in the Tang Dynasty were tea in the mountains (including tea from Wuyishan) and salt from the coast."

There is Tang Sunqiao's "Book of Sending Tea and Jiao punishment", which writes about sending Wuyi tea - evening ganhou, and Xu Wei's poem "Shang Shu Hui Wax Face Tea", which is 1100 years ago, writing about the collection, ritual sacrifice, transportation, boiling and drinking of Wuyi tea in the Tang Dynasty and the gratitude of the recipients.

Wuyi spring warm moon full, picking new shoots to offer land immortals.

The magpie is printed into incense wax pieces, and the ape creek walks the magnolia boat.

Gold troughs and crushed incense sticks, ice bowls lightly contain wisps of green smoke.

The gift of grace knows the most different, and the evening bell should be boiled in the North Mountain Spring.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="144" >3, Song Dynasty: Wuyi tea was in its heyday, mainly making dragon tuan phoenix cake tea. </h1>

Large, small and small dragon phoenix tea cake, the production process is extremely time-consuming, labor-intensive and silver-consuming, and the best imperial tribute.

(1) Wuyi tea is an important part of Jiancha, and Wuyi tea is included in the Beiyuan Shanggong Tuan tea, such as Su Shi's "Lychee Sigh", and Song Fan Zhongyan's "He Zhang Min Engaged in Tea Fighting Song" are also recorded.

"Jun did not see the millet buds by the Wuyi Creek, and the former Ding and the back Cai Xiang were added."

Compete for new favors, this year's doupin official tea..."

Su Dongpo tea drinking picture

(2) Tea fighting is prevalent, and it is a selection of tributes and amusement projects.

Tea fighting is prevalent, and it is a selection of tributes and amusement projects.

(3) Wuyi tea has a close connection with Confucianism and Taoism, Zhu Xi, White Jade Toad, etc., planting tea, drinking tea, writing tea, have left many poems and beautiful legends.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="143" >4, Yuan Dynasty: mainly making cake tea. </h1>

Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, presented the Wuyi tea "Stone Milk" to the chancellor (The Marshal of the Right Vice Capital of the Fujian Road Solicitation), which was appreciated and was undertaken by local officials in the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1282). Happy has personally entered Wuyi Mountain several times and supervised the production of tribute tea. In the fifth year of Yuan Dade (1301), Gao Jiuzhu, the son of Gao Jiuzhu, was appointed as the governor of Shaowu Road in Fujian Province, and was ordered to supervise the production of tribute tea in Wuyi Mountain, and built a royal tea garden on the south bank of the Four Curves of Jiuqu Creek to make tribute tea, at that time, there were 250 households in the garden, 360 jin of tribute tea, 5000 cakes of dragon and phoenix tea to pay tribute, and then gradually increased, to 960 jin in the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng (1368). The tribute increases year by year, and the tea farmers are miserable, and there is a abandonment of tea gardens and a decline in tea production. Today, the Siqu North Shore Inscription Rock still retains 3 cliff carvings that commemorate the construction of the garden by local officials and the supervision of rock tea.

Rock tea cliff carvings.

The "Shouting Mountain" ceremony in Wuyi Mountain is built on the east side of the Imperial Tea Garden, and every year on the day of the sting, Chong'an County Ling leads the officials and field workers of the Imperial Tea Garden to perform sacrifices and offer three animals

, light incense and burn cannons, read the altar text, after reading the worship, beat the drum and sound gold, and lead the crowd to shout "Tea sprouts!" Tea sprouts! It is said that after the prayer cry, the water of the Tongxian Well will slowly rise, which is the work of divine power and spread mysteriously.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="151" >5, Ming Dynasty: Zhu Yuanzhang decreed "Strike the dragon group and reform the loose tea". </h1>

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, loose tea has returned to the authenticity of tea, so that the amount of tea has increased, tea farmers have generated income, and it is also the biggest breakthrough and development in tea history. Since then, Wuyi tea has gradually changed from steamed spring tuan cake tea to sun-dried green, steamed green and loose tea preparation method, and later improved to fried green tea. Improving the yield and quality of Wuyi tea, Chen Rafter believes that "the development of fried green tea can be said to be a great revolution in the field of tea industry." Promoted the development of Wuyi tea. Xu Huobo of the Ming Dynasty recorded in his "Tea Examination": "Within the ring of nine curves, no less than hundreds of families, all of which are engaged in growing tea, produce hundreds of thousands of catties in the years. The water floats and land turns, the four sides of the mane, and the name of Wuyi is in the sea. ”

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, loose tea has returned to the authenticity of tea, so that the amount of tea has increased, tea farmers have generated income, and it is also the biggest breakthrough and development in tea history

In the 35th year of the Ming Dynasty, Dutch merchant ships came to Macao to buy and transport green tea to Europe, mainly Wuyi tea, which opened a precedent for the export of Wuyi tea.

In 1636, Dutch merchants with "sea coachmen" transported Chinese tea to Europe

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="154" >6, Qing Dynasty: Is the era of the great development of Wuyi tea</h1>

(1) Wuyi tea developed from green tea to oolong tea and was renamed Wuyi rock tea.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Chong'an County Ling Yin Yingyin once recruited Anhui Huangshan monks to make Songluo tea (fermented fried green tea) in continuous improvement and repeated exploration, took the lead in forming the production process of rock tea (oolong tea), and determined to be Wuyi rock tea.

Wuyi rock tea

(2) Created a small variety of black tea: the birthplace of black tea - WuyiShan Xingcun Tongmuguan:

The local mountains are densely forested, rainy and foggy, humidity, rainy and sunny in spring, tea can not be dried with daylight, mostly rely on indoor pine wood baking, the tea leaves after frying and kneading are baked with pine wood, tea has a pine smoke flavor, called Zhengshan small black tea (tobacco small species). 、

Zhengshan small variety black tea (tobacco small variety)

(3) Created

With the best production of Wuyishan Octagonal Pavilion, it is mainly transported to San Francisco and Singapore in the United States at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, and is well received by overseas Chinese. Tea products, tea varieties and their production technology spread rapidly to the outside world, Wuyi tea is famous at home and abroad, and has driven the development of the tea industry in the surrounding areas.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="161" >7, during the Republic of China:</h1>

Affected by the war, tea sales are not smooth, production declined, tea sales still reached 450,000 catties in 1914, to 1948 only 13,000 catties (including 3,000 catties of Zhengshan small black tea) In 1938, the Fujian Tea Improvement Field was moved to Chong'an County; in 1942, the "Tea Research Institute of the Trade Commission of the Central Ministry of Finance" was built in Chong'an. Wuyishan became the national tea research center. Many famous tea industry predecessors, such as Wu Juenong, Zhang Tianfu, Wang Zenong, etc., have worked in the research institute. They opened a tea garden in Wuyi Mountain to conduct experiments and achieved many results, such as the successful trial production of the "918" tea kneading machine, and the book "Production, Manufacture and Distribution of Wuyi Tea" written by Lin Fuquan during this period, which contributed to the development of the tea industry.

Zhang Tianfu, a tea hero after the founding of New China, a photo of his 105-year-old birthday

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="165" >2, about the rock rhyme of Wuyi Mountain:</h1>

Rock rhyme is the unique quality and symbol of Wuyi rock tea. It is composed of three major factors:

A. Wuyi Mountain's unique natural ecological environment conditions;

B. Excellent tea varieties suitable for producing rock tea;

C. Unique traditional production and production technology. It is characterized by the aroma of rock bone flowers, that is, "the tea is thick and lubricated, the aroma is clear and remote, the sweetness is fast and obvious, and the taste remains for a long time." ”

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="172" > 4. Classification of rock tea: Da Hong Pao, Da Narcissus, Cinnamon, Famous Fir, Odd Species</h1>

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It is the most well-known of the five famous bushes in Wuyi, located in the Nine Dragons of Wuyi Mountain, there are six mother trees Da Hong Pao, which has a history of more than 360 years, and the output of tea is only a few hundred grams. Picking has now stopped. Da Hong Pao is the tea king in history and the main brand of Wuyi Rock Tea. Preparation of Da Hong Pao: The selection of high-grade rock tea as raw materials is scientifically blended and refined, and the grade test is carried out according to national standards. Da Hong Pao is the top quality of rock tea.

There are six mother trees in the Nine Dragons Of Wuyi Mountain,

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="184" >2, Narcissus</h1>

When it comes to daffodil tea, its most famous name is: alcohol but daffodils. The mellowness of daffodil tea is the most prominent, and the older the tea plant, the more obvious this mellowness is. Daffodil tea can be divided into ordinary daffodils, tall fir daffodils and old fir daffodils. At present, the more popular ones in the market are high fir daffodils and old fir daffodils.

The natural environment in the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="227" >3, cinnamon</h1>

Wuyi rock tea is known for its fragrant but cinnamon saying, cinnamon is the dominant variety of rock tea, for the wuyi rock tea in the high fragrance of the variety, strange aroma heterogeneous, bitter with the unique charm of caramel aroma, powerful cover Top Gao Rui domineering. Cinnamon is native to Wuyi Mountain Horse Pillow Peak, Huiyuan Pit and other places also have the same tea tree, more than 100 years of history, has been all over wuyi Mountain Water Curtain Cave, BullPen Pit, Horse Head Rock, Hui Yuan Pit, Tianxin Rock, LiuXiang stream, Jiulong Kiln, Bamboo Cave and other places.

Huiyuan pit cinnamon

<h1 class=pgc-h-arrow-right data-track=175 >4, four famous conglomerates: iron luohan, water turtle, white crown, half-day demon (harrier).</h1>

3. Characteristics and functions of the famous cong

(1) Strong adaptability, strong adaptability to the local natural ecological environment and production conditions;

(2) There are many types and obvious characteristics;

(3) Some famous clusters have stricter requirements for the growth environment and production process (strong regional);

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="199" >5, odd species</h1>

Wuyishan's unnamed wild tea tree species or vegetable tea tree species, such as Jin Guanyin, Golden Peony, Huang Guanyin, etc., are the earliest indigenous varieties in Wuyishan Nature Reserve and the most distinctive type of Wuyi Rock Tea. Wuyi strange species, locals also call it vegetable tea, the reason why it is called strange species, is because of its characteristics, tea tree shape is strange, ever-changing. The strangeness of the strange species lies in the fact that its leaf shape is not the same, and it is difficult to find two tea trees that are exactly the same. Wuyi strange species, through sexual reproduction and breeding offspring, is greatly affected by the surrounding ecological environment, cross-pollination, easy to change the characteristics of strange species, therefore, the aroma and taste of Wuyi strange species are ever-changing.

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