Introduction: When it comes to "Seven Sons Cake", tea friends all know that it is Pu'er tea, but do you really know what is "Seven Sons Cake"? When and how did it come about? After reading these questions, you will definitely understand.
1. What is Seven Sons Cake Tea?
Answer: Qizi cake tea is made of Yunnan Sunshine Qingmao Tea, which is processed by the Pu'er tea process, not milled or ground, and pressed into cakes, showing its cords. The pie is as round as the moon, weighs 7 taels per pie, measured in modern units of mass, at 357 grams. Seven cakes are a barrel, mostly wrapped in bamboo shoot shells into a cylinder.
2. Is the Seven Sons Cake Tea only available in Yunnan?
A: Yes, Qizi Cake Tea is only available in Yunnan. Qizi Cake Tea specifically refers to the Pu'er Cake Tea that is pressed and formed with Yunnan Pu'er Tea, and each cake weighs seven or two, and the seven cakes are a tube of Pu'er Cake Tea. According to the relevant documents of the National Geographical Indication products promulgated in 2008, Pu'er tea is a tea unique to a certain area of Yunnan. Therefore, Qizi Cake Tea is unique to Yunnan.
3. Is tea made into a cake, invented by Yunnan people?
Answer: Tea is made into a cake, not invented by Yunnan people, and some people in the central plains of the Tang Dynasty already made cake tea. Before the establishment of Pu'er Province, that is, before 1729 (the seventh year of Yongzheng), a small number of famous people in Yunnan were not good at making cake tea, but were good at making tight group tea and bamboo tube tea.
4. When did the production of Qizi Cake Tea start? What is the source?
Answer: In 1729 (the seventh year of Yongzheng), the Qing government changed the land to Xishuangbanna and built Pu'er Province. Xishuangbanna was the largest tea-producing area in Yunnan at that time, and in order to monopolize Yunnan tea, the Qing government set up a general tea shop in Simao, which intensified the contradiction between local tea farmers and tea merchants and the government, which directly affected the safety of Xishuangbanna at that time.
In 1733 (the eleventh year of Yongzheng), Yin Jishan took over the post of Governor of Yungui, and as soon as he took office, he began to rectify the tea industry, he abolished the Simao General Tea Shop and decided to bring Yunnan tea into the national legal management. The following year, Yin Jishan went to the imperial court and asked for a tea law to be promoted in Yunnan.
In 1735 (the thirteenth year of Yongzheng), the Qing court officially promulgated the Yunnan Tea Law, which stipulates that the purchase and sale of Yunnan tea must hold a "tea introduction", and approves the issuance of three thousand "tea introductions" in Yunnan every year, and each introduction can purchase 100 catties of tea. Yunnan trading tea must be round cake shape, each round cake weighs seven two, seven cakes for a barrel, each barrel of tax silver one point, each "tea introduction" can buy thirty-two barrels (about 100 pounds) tea, tax three dollars and two points, Yongwei customization (more about pu'er tea expertise, please add Dong Yue personal number: dydy280 to understand, exchange).
5. What role does the birth of Qizi Cake Tea play in the history of the development of Pu'er tea?
Answer: The promulgation of the Yunnan Tea Law and the appearance of Qizi Cake Tea have made the tea exported from Yunnan have since had a specification shape, which is convenient for tax measurement and has a neat and beautiful appearance, which has increased the reputation of Yunnan Pu'er tea. It also makes the processing, sales and taxation of tea in Yunnan efficient and transparent.
The "double seven" regulations of 721 cake and 7 cakes and one barrel of Seven Cakes enable Yunnan tea to be processed on a large scale and efficiently and exported to china and abroad. It has accelerated the tea trade in Yunnan to the whole country and to the world. Since its birth, the quality of Qizi Cake Tea has been strictly controlled and supervised by the Qing Court Tea Law, so the Qizi Tea Cake represents the high level of craftsmanship and quality of Yunnan tea at that time to a certain extent.
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Qizi Cake Tea has become the most representative standard specification of Pu'er tea for nearly 300 years since its debut, and it is well known at home and abroad, especially consumers in China's coastal areas and Southeast Asian countries, who have a deep sense of trust and cultural plot in Qizi Cake Tea.
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