Guangzhou people's love for Pu 'er tea is well known throughout the country, and Pu 'er tea is also deeply favored by Guangzhou people, and has since become the only tea in the world. Although there is a trend of "going from south to north" in recent years, it is undeniable that Guangzhou, the national central city in South China, is still the leading consumer of China Pu 'er tea.

It can be seen that Guangzhou people have a soft spot for Pu 'er tea, and it is not groundless. There are both historical and practical reasons here.

According to such a set of statistics, the permanent population of 6,543,804,000 in Guangzhou can consume about 40% of Pu 'er tea produced in that year (that is, it has been sold, whether it is drunk or collected), and the annual output of Pu 'er tea is about 300,000 tons, which is equivalent to 8.5 kg/year per adult. This data has not ruled out people who don't drink tea, so it is still quite amazing.

In fact, people in Guangzhou are not born to love Pu 'er tea. Since the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou people have had the habit of "drinking morning tea". Tea drinking here is not only tea drinking, but also breakfast, even parties in daily life, business contacts and so on. On the one hand, it shows the leisure of Guangzhou people, on the other hand, it also undertakes the daily social function of Guangzhou people. In the past, people preferred green tea, oolong tea and black tea, and rarely used Pu 'er tea.

This phenomenon until after the reform and opening up, Guangzhou's unique geographical position and economic status gradually formed the largest tea professional wholesale market and distribution center in China, which produced subversive changes.

Guangzhou people who love to eat, pay attention to diet and enjoy health care gradually find that Pu 'er tea is unique in taste, mellow in foam resistance, warm and peaceful in stomach, especially in reducing fire, eliminating dampness, losing weight and removing grease, which just meets the general health needs of Guangzhou people who live in a sultry metropolis and are often wet and hot.

From then on, Guangzhou people, who gradually became addicted to alcohol and developed economic cells, suddenly found that Pu 'er tea, which was originally resistant to storage and became more and more fragrant, was of great investment value in collection. As a result, around 2000, private capital began to intervene in Pu 'er tea and hyped it up. Pu 'er tea, which was originally only a few tens of dollars, suddenly doubled in value and became the "ultimate weapon" for many people to get rich. For a time, a large number of tea industry practitioners came to Guangzhou to join the craze of frying Pu 'er tea, and many people made their first bucket of gold.

Pu 'er tea has suddenly jumped from a daily drink to a financial collection, and it has the ability to "make money" at once, which also makes more Guangzhou people have a special liking for Pu 'er tea.

In this way, it seems too much to say that Guangzhou is the "Bole" of Pu 'er tea. As we all know, Pu 'er tea has been sold as a low-priced tea for a long time in history, and it has been sold to the western frontier areas such as Qinghai-Tibet, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia for a long time. Its health and financial attributes have been basically ignored. After all, in the western region, where the economy is relatively backward, the degree of socialization is low, and people's awareness of health preservation is not very awakening, Pu 'er tea, which is easy to store, mellow and can be brewed repeatedly, naturally becomes their best daily tea.

However, this characteristic of Pu 'er tea was discovered and deeply explored in Guangzhou. Coupled with Guangzhou's unique food culture and the financial investment attributes given to it later, it is natural that Pu 'er tea becomes the favorite tea beverage of Guangzhou people.

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Yi was born in a colorful tea country. Being familiar with tea affairs since childhood, he keeps a persistent watch on his hometown, enjoys a little understanding of tea and life, and looks forward to tasting tea with you!