Are there any historical stories about Yunnan Pu’er tea and Xiaguan Tuo tea? For example, in Xiaguan, is it because of the low altitude?
In the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1902), in order to solve many problems in the transportation and marketing of loose tea, the Dali giant "Yongchangxiang" company created the "Girl's Tuan Tea" into a round shape with a concave shape on the outside and a concave shape on the inside. The bowl-shaped mortar-shaped "Mound Tea" was later called "Tuocha".
Xiaguan Tuocha used to be sold to the border. Because the daily diet of the northwest frontier residents was relatively greasy, Tuocha was a daily necessity for them. Xiaguan Tuocha uses cheaper raw materials from Lincang area, not Xiaguan tea raw materials.
Its transformation is slightly slower than cake tea. The specific transformation time depends on the raw materials, technology and storage conditions. Guo Zijian: National Senior Tea Appraiser, direct disciple of Pu’er Godfather “Baishui Qing”, and first executive vice president of the World Tea Culture Exchange Association.
In 1998, he went to Yunnan to learn tea under the tutelage of the godfather of Pu'er, Bai Shuiqing. In 2002, he founded Fenyangtang Pu'er Teahouse.
In 2016, he settled in the Taobao corporate store "I only see Pu'er" and became the head of the "I only see Pu'er" Taobao store, specializing in Pu'er tea selection, blending, storage and tasting. Appreciate and collect Pu'er tea to create a quick introduction to Pu'er tea. There are also collectible Pu'er teas such as Hongyin, 88 Green Cake, 92 Square Brick, Chinese Cabbage, and Purple Sky, which will accompany you as you grow older! Let all Pu'er tea lovers avoid detours and drink authentic and good Pu'er with confidence. The Origin of Xiaguan Tuocha
Yunnan is the hometown of tea.
Located in Xiaguan, the largest tea processing center and trading center in western Yunnan, there is a traditional tea product with a history of more than 100 years since its creation. More than a century of time has not only failed to make it It faded, but continued to develop and flourish, becoming a well-known brand at home and abroad. This is Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha. There is only one company in the world that produces genuine Xiaguan Tuocha, and that is Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Co., Ltd.
Its predecessor is Xiaguan Tea Factory in Yunnan Province, located in Xiaguan, Dali City, a transportation hub in western Yunnan, a famous historical and cultural city and a national tourist city. National Highway 214, which connects Yunnan and Tibet, and National Highway 320, a major transportation artery that runs through the east and west of the motherland, intersect here.
Xiaguan Tea Factory was founded in the spring of 1941. It was originally the "Kangzang Tea Factory". It mainly processes hand-processed tight tea, and its products are mainly sold in Japan, Sichuan and northwest Yunnan. After the People's Liberation Army took over in April 1950, it was renamed "Yunnan Province Xiaguan Tea Factory" and absorbed the tea business workers who had exquisite tea-making skills in Xiaguan at that time, making the Xiaguan Tea Factory inherit the tradition from the beginning of its establishment. Xiaguan’s unique tea processing techniques from ancient times to the present.
After more than 60 years of development, Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Group Co., Ltd., which was restructured and reorganized from the state-owned Xiaguan Tea Factory, has developed into one of the top pressed tea companies in the country and the largest tea refinery in Yunnan. Processing enterprises. Looking at the century-old development of Xiaguan Tuo Tea, we must talk about the century-old history of Xiaguan Tuo Tea.
Xiaguan is located at the heart of the Ancient Tea Horse Road. The Ancient Tea-Horse Road, which begins in the tea area of ??southern Yunnan and ends in **, mainly trades tea and horses as its main goods. It is an ancient trade road with horse caravans as the main mode of transportation.
"Manshu", an annals of Yunnan written by Fan Chuo of the Tang Dynasty, records: "Tea comes out of the mountains around the city of Yinsheng, and is scattered and harvested. There is no way to collect and make it." "Yinsheng" is the name of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty (748- 937), one of the six festivals outside the Liuzhao, Yinsheng City is now Jingdong, Yunnan Province, and its jurisdiction includes the current Simao area and Xishuangbanna Prefecture.
As early as more than 1,200 years ago, tea from Simao and Xishuangbanna had been shipped to Dali. Since the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, with the increasing trade between Yunnan and Tibet and Yunnan and Sichuan, Xiaguan, located at the hub of the ancient "Tea-Horse Road", has gradually become the largest tea trading center and pressed tea processing center in Southwest China.
Large-leaf green tea produced in Xishuangbanna, Simao, Lincang, Baoshan and Dali tea areas in Yunnan is continuously transported to Xiaguan for processing and sales. At that time, the transportation of tea was mainly carried by horse packs. After long distances, wind and rain, the tea was easily affected by moisture and fragile, which often caused tea merchants to suffer losses.
In 1902, some tea merchants in Xiaguan improved upon a tea called "Girls' Tuan Tea" and created "Mound Tea" which is convex on the outside and concave on the inside. (Yunnan people are accustomed to calling round lumps mounds), which not only solves the problem of tea being damaged during transportation, but also makes Tuocha have a special inner quality through special processing. Tuocha is sold to Sichuan, Luzhou, Yibin, Chongqing and other places via Kunming and Zhaotong.
Because Yibin is located at the confluence of the Tuojiang River and the Yangtze River, tea merchants, in order to promote this tea, vigorously promoted "Tuojiang water, Xiaguan tea, high fragrance, taste, mellowness and good quality". Gradually it was called "Tuocha". In the 5th year of the Republic of China (1916), Chen Bangxian had this description in his "Zi Mian Zhai Essays": "Tea drinking is popular in Sichuan, with Tuocha being the most popular, and Tuocha from Xiaguan being the top grade, with a strong flavor. , golden yellow in color and resistant to foaming.”
Judging from these historical data, Xiaguan Tuocha has become the most popular and representative Yunnan tea brand among families and teahouse drinkers in Sichuan and other places. "Xiaguan Tuocha" is already a well-known brand in Sichuan, especially in Chongqing.
After liberation, the Xiaguan Tea Factory inherited the long-standing and exquisite tea processing skills of the Xiaguan area, and continued to innovate on this basis, strictly managed product quality, improved the intrinsic quality of Xiaguan Tuocha, and continued to develop new products We have made remarkable achievements in research and development, product packaging improvement and mechanized and semi-mechanized development of production and processing equipment. Xiaguan Tuocha has won the National Quality Silver Award three times since 1981 and the World Food Golden Crown Award three times.
In 1989, it was rated as "China's Famous Tea", and later won the honors of "Yunnan Famous Tea", "Yunnan Famous Brand Product" and "China's Famous Tea Brand". In 2002, with the approval of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Xiaguan Tuocha was registered as a "National Origin Marked Product" and was the only Yunnan tea product to obtain this qualification.
"Songhe" brand Xiaguantuo tea has been awarded the "Famous Trademark of Yunnan Province" twice since 2003. In 2008, it was rated as "China's famous brand agricultural product" by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Over the past 100 years, Xiaguan Tuocha has developed from a local specialty product into a well-known brand in Yunnan tea. The sales area has expanded from Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in the past to now products are sold in Guangdong. , Beijing, Chongqing, Hunan, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Hainan and other 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, and exported to more than 10 countries in the European Union, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. What are the series of Xiaguan Tuocha cake tea?
Generally speaking, the cake tea series: 1. Green big tree cake tea, which is a raw tea.
Yiwu new tea has a unique fresh nectar aroma. It feels watery and smooth in the mouth, sweet and refreshing on the tip of the tongue, and has a strong and long aftertaste. It is worthy of being a treasure originating from the secret realm of the Yiwu Mountains in Xishuangbanna. Online quotation: 4400 per piece.
Second, sweet Pu'er is a cooked tea. The shape of this product is round and generous, the noodles are tightly knotted, the texture is brown and moist, the internal quality is rich and unique, the soup color is red and bright, the taste is rich and mellow, the sweetness is obvious and long-lasting, and the bottom of the leaves is evenly reddish-brown.
Online quotation: 750 yuan/piece. Third, Chinese discus is a raw tea.
Chinese Discus selects Yunnan large-leaf trees and high-grade green tea from Ailao Mountain and Wuliangshan Mountains in the Hengduan Mountains and high-altitude mountains. After being stored for many years (5-8 years) in Dali's "Plateau Warehouse" , the following Guantuo tea "hundred-year formula" technology, refined with a century-old traditional processing technology, has obvious aroma characteristics of mountain big tree tea. The cords are tight and plump, the soup is golden in color, the aroma is high and dense, the taste is rich and full, smooth and sweet, the aftertaste is long-lasting, and the bottom of the leaves is plump and tender.
Online quotation: 3050 yuan/piece. Fourth, Chinese Tuo is a raw tea.
Just like its name, this tea is magnificent and carries thousands of years of Chinese culture. Online quotation: 2100 yuan/piece.
Fifth, Golden List 8663, belongs to ripe tea. Online quotation: 900 yuan/piece.
Sixth, the spring of Yiwu belongs to raw tea. Yiwu Spring awakens your taste buds, flowing on your fingertips and lingering in your throat.
The noodles are fat, long and oily, with white pekoe exposed and a clear and lasting aroma. The aroma is pure, the soup color is bright orange, and the taste is mellow and sweet.
Online quotation: 5,000 yuan/piece. Seventh, Golden List T8653, belongs to raw tea.
Online quotation: 1,600 yuan/piece. 8. Round tea from old trees in Wuliang Mountain is a raw tea.
Nine, Yunnan cake tea is a raw tea. 1,400 yuan/item.
Ten, a golden warrior and an iron horse, belongs to raw tea. 3980 yuan/piece.
. The historical development of Tuocha
The production of Tuocha has a long history. As early as the Ming Dynasty, there is a record in the book "Dian Lue" that "the common people use common tea, steam it and make balls". Pu'er tea refers to Pu'er tea, which means that at that time, loose tea was steamed, processed and kneaded to compress the volume and make it easy to carry. Historically, Li Wenxiang, a native of Jinggu, founded a tea-making workshop in the 26th year of Guangxu (1900). He used sun-dried green tea as raw material to make mooncake-shaped tea by steaming and pressing it, also known as valley tea. Two years later, it was copied into "bowl-shaped tea" by merchants "Maoheng" and "Yongchangxiang" in Xiaguan, and was transported to Xufu (now Yibin) and Tuojiang, Sichuan via Kunming and Zhaotong for sale. The processing of Jinggu Tuancha laid the prototype of Yunnan Tuocha. The origin of the name Tuocha is that Tuocha is derived from tuan. Some people say that it got its name because it used to be sold in the Tuojiang area of ??Sichuan. No matter what the theory is, it can be inferred that Tuocha is a very ancient tea product in Yunnan and has long been sold well inside and outside the province. The modern Yunnan Tuocha was created in 1902 (the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty) and has a history of more than 80 years. It evolved from the so-called "Girl's Tea" (also called private tea) in Jinggu County, Simao Prefecture into modern Tuocha. shape. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan's tea distribution market gradually moved to Xiaguan, a city with convenient transportation and developed industry and commerce. Tea merchants such as Yongchangxiang and Fuchunhe in Xiaguan transformed Tuancha into bowl-shaped Tuocha, which was transported via Kunming to Chongqing, Xufu (now Yibin), Chengdu and other places for sale, so it is also called Xufu tea. 2004 Xiaguan Green Songhe Who knows the history of this tea
History: a Chinese word with three meanings: 1. A discipline that records and explains historical events as a series of human processes.
2. Evolution, origin. 3. Past facts.
History, referred to as history, generally refers to the history of human society. It is a discipline that records and explains a series of historical events in the process of human activities. In most cases, it is also a reflection of the current era. If it is just summary and mapping, then history as an existence should disappear.
The problem of history is to constantly discover the true past, and to use materials to speak, so that how people can make it possible in reality becomes a question that can be discussed. [1] History is extended.
History is the inheritance, accumulation and expansion of culture, and is the trajectory of human civilization. A review of Xiaguan Tuocha
In the late Qing Dynasty, Yunnan’s tea distribution market gradually moved to Xiaguan, a city with convenient transportation and developed industry and commerce. Tea merchants such as Yongchangxiang and Fuchunhe in Xiaguan transformed Tuancha into bowl-shaped Tuocha, which was transported via Kunming to Chongqing, Xufu (now Yibin), Chengdu and other places in Sichuan Province for sale, so it is also called Xufu tea. Xiaguan Tuocha uses famous teas produced in more than 30 counties in Yunnan Province, including Lincang, Baoshan, and Simao, as raw materials. Its initial production process is made through several processes of manual kneading and machine pressing. It is shaped like a bowl and has a beautiful shape. The color is dark and lustrous, and the fragrance is pure and fragrant. The soup is bright orange in color and has a refreshing and sweet taste. Drinking it regularly has the health-care effects of improving eyesight, clearing the mind, refreshing the mind, nourishing the skin, inhibiting bacteria and curing diseases. Abroad, it is known as "slimming tea", "beauty tea" and "longevity tea". In China, Xiaguan Tuocha, Yunnan Baiyao and Yunyan are known as the "Three Treasures of Central Yunnan".
Dali is located in The strategic hub of western Yunnan, where the "Ancient Tea Horse Road" and the "Shu Shen Poison Road" intersect, forming a cross-type and bilateral commercial culture on the trade channel, making Dali a place where the cultures of the Central Plains, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia blend. It is the civilization of the Ancient Tea Horse Road and the Shu Shen Du Road that makes Dali become "the ancient capital standing at the crossroads of Asian cultures". Dali not only has obvious geographical advantages, but also has unique climatic conditions. The famous Xiaguan Tuo tea is produced at home and abroad. In Xiaguan, Dali City. 1. Choose a pot: It is better to choose a pot that has strong heat retention and is slightly larger (about two or three times more than when drinking oolong)
2. Set the tea. Quantity: How to make Xiaguan Tuocha? It is very important to control the amount of tea.
3. Tuocha: Cooling with high water will reduce the sourness, but if the flavor is gone, cooling will also lose the original flavor. .
4. Make the tea soup at the right time: take the second brew to bring out the aroma, and the third brew to boil water, whatever you want is fine, unless a very high temperature is required.
5. Tuocha after brewing: After leaving some water in the pot, open the lid for about half a minute to one minute and then close the lid; , open the lid and when there is no steam at the mouth of the pot, press the pot body with your fingers. If the temperature is not too hot, you can touch it for more than five seconds, then close the lid. Leave some water in the pot, mainly to let the brewed things dissolve in the water; the temperature should be controlled, because this is the main brewing.
6. Tight-knot tea properties: In tight-knot tea (Tuo, cake, brick), after brewing to a certain point, the whole thing will fall apart. Tight-knot tea will easily appear if it is shaken apart. Some products that are supposed to be thick are not thick enough, and the non-toxic flavor is easy to escape.
7: Tea soup flavor issue: Regarding the flavor issue, it must be mentioned. According to the above statement, flavor seems to be a matter of concentration control. In fact, to brew out that thick base, "soaking time" is needed. How to drink Xiaguan Tuocha
Tuocha is a very ancient tea product in Yunnan and has long been sold well inside and outside the province. The modern Yunnan Tuocha was created in the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1902) and has a history of more than 80 years. It evolved from the so-called "Girl's Tea" (also called private tea) in Jinggu County, Simao Prefecture into modern Tuocha. shape.
Brewing method
1. Choose a pot: It is better to choose a pot that has strong heat retention and is slightly larger (about two or three times larger than when drinking oolong).
2. Amount of tea: How to make Xiaguan Tuocha? Controlling the amount of tea is very important.
3. Tuocha: Cooling with fine water and high pressure will reduce the sour taste, but if the flavor is gone, cooling will also lose the original flavor.
4. Make the tea soup at the right time: take the second brew to bring out the fragrance as an example, and the third brew to brew boiling water, whatever you want is fine, unless a very high temperature is required.
5. Tuocha after brewing: After leaving some water in the pot, open the lid for about half a minute to one minute and then close the lid; , open the lid and when there is no steam at the mouth of the pot, press the pot body with your fingers. If the temperature is not too hot, you can touch it for more than five seconds, then close the lid. Leave some water in the pot, mainly to let the brewed things dissolve in the water; the temperature should be controlled, because this is the main brewing.
6. Tight-knot tea properties: In tight-knot tea (Tuo, cake, brick), after brewing to a certain point, the whole thing will fall apart. Tight-knot tea will easily appear if it is shaken apart. Some products that are supposed to be thick are not thick enough, and the non-toxic flavor is easy to escape.
7: Tea soup flavor issue: Regarding the flavor issue, it must be mentioned. According to the above statement, flavor seems to be a matter of concentration control. In fact, to brew out that thick base, "soaking time" is needed. Is Xiaguan Tuocha Pu'er tea?
Yes, Xiaguan Tuocha belongs to Pu'er tea, which belongs to the "pressed tea" category of Pu'er tea.
Depending on the production process, Tuocha has There are green tea Tuocha (referred to as "Qingtuo") and cooked tea Tuocha (referred to as "ripened Tuo").
"Qingtuo" is made from Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green tea as raw material, which is steamed and pressed;
"Shutuo" is made from Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green tea. It is made from raw materials, which are fermented and then autoclaved.
There are many kinds of Tuocha, but Tuocha itself originates from a centuries-old tea factory in Xiaguan Ancient Town, Dali City, Yunnan. It was originally called Xiaguan Tea Factory and is now called Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Co., Ltd. Therefore, not all Tuocha is Xiaguan Tuocha, but the most famous one is "Xiaguan Tuocha". However, special attention should be paid to that only the Tuocha produced by Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Co., Ltd. is called "Xiaguan Tuocha". Don't buy the wrong one.
Pu'er tea can be made into various shapes, such as cake, brick, pumpkin, mushroom and other shapes. "Tuo" is one of the shapes.