Talk about Pu'er tea seven-seed cake

Seven zi cake can be said to be the hegemon of the tea industry now, its name has overshadowed other tea brands, so in the future its name has not been loud.

Seven is an auspicious number in China, and the seven sons, as a symbol of many sons and many blessings, have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Nanyang.

In fact, the regulation of the Seven Sons began in the Qing Dynasty, and the Great Qing Hui Canonical Cases stated: "Yongzheng thirteen years (1735 AD) was accurate, Yunnan merchant tea, every seven circles for one barrel, weighing forty-nine two (combined with today 3). 6 city pounds), one cent of taxed silver, one citation per hundred catties, should be 32 barrels of tea as a citation, and each tax silver is three dollars and two cents. Beginning in the thirteenth year, three thousand tea leads were awarded. "Here, the Qing government stipulated that the Tea sold in Yunnan tibet was Qizi Tea, but there was no such mention at that time.

Late Qing Dynasty

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the more forms of tea leaves, such as the appearance of small five-son round tea in Baosen Tea Estate, in order to distinguish, people called the round tea packaging form of every seven for a barrel as "Seven Sons Round Tea", but it was not a commodity or trademark name. In the early days of the Republic of China, faced with the chaos of the weight of tea cakes and the pressure of competition, some regions set up tea chambers of commerce to try to unify.

For example, the Simao Tea Chamber of Commerce agreed around the decade or so of the Republic of China that each round of tea base should not exceed 6 taels, but the "Lei Yongfeng", which has a wealth and a political background, produces 625 yuan per round and 8 rounds of "eight zi yuan" tea, and under unfair competition, the market share has increased greatly.

Liberation

After liberation, the tea state-owned and tea factories affiliated to the Yunnan Tea Company used the trademark of the China Tea Company to produce "China Tea Brand" round tea. The trademark was used from March 1, 1952 to February 28, 1972. Therefore, in the early 1970s, the Yunnan Tea Import and Export Company hoped to find a more appealing, more conducive to publicity and promotion of the name, they changed "round" to "cake", forming this auspicious name "Qizi Cake Tea". Since then, the Chinese tea brand has faded out, and the title of round tea has also withdrawn from the stage, achieving the hegemonic status of the tightly pressed tea of the Seven Sons Cake.

The future of the Seven Sons

Seven circles and one cylinder was originally a standard formulated by the Qing government in order to standardize measurement, production and transportation, and only in the early and middle Qing Dynasties, as well as in the era of planned economy after liberation, it had a normative effect. Once it enters the liberalization market, in addition to brand value, the meaning of the quality and weight it represents is blurred. Four-year-old tea and five-blessing tea are already there, and it is difficult to ensure that there will be no teas such as the eight-year-old and the nine palaces in the future, and how long the banner of the seven-child cake can fly is worrying.

Pu'er tea, from the world's tea source, is the most primitive and natural tea, is the continuation of ancient french tea, ancient tea culture in Yunnan, the secret place of Yunnan's unique ancient tree tea garden, so that modern people drink Tea of the Tang Dynasty.