China is a big tea country. Where is the place rich in tea?

As we all know, tea originated in China. According to the Eight Records of Huayang Country, as early as 1000 BC, in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, tea trees were planted artificially in Bashu area of Sichuan Province and presented to the royal family of Zhou Dynasty as a tribute. With the long river of history flowing forward, the cultivation of tea leaves Bashu and rapidly expands to Shaanxi, Henan, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and South China. Nowadays, there are more than 20 provinces 1000 counties and cities in China, and tea has become one of the important pillar industries in the local area, which has played an important role in increasing people's production and income and local economic development. Today, let's talk about the division of Chinese tea areas. Why are the tea-growing areas in China divided into four major tea-growing areas? What are the characteristics of each tea area? I hope to provide some useful reference for friends in need.

1. Where do we grow tea now? Many people know that China is a big country in tea planting and production, but they don't necessarily know which provinces are planting tea trees. Historically, tea was first planted in Sichuan and Hubei, the so-called land of Bashu. Subsequently, with the unification of the Qin Dynasty, tea cultivation gradually spread to the political, economic and cultural centers of Shaanxi and Henan at that time, and then to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He took tea seeds to Taiwan Province Province and opened up a tea area in Taiwan Province Province. At present, as far as latitude and longitude are concerned, there are tea trees in China tea-producing areas, from the east coast of Taiwan Province Province at 122 degrees east longitude to Milin in Xizang Autonomous Region at 94 degrees east longitude, from Yulin in Hainan Province at 18 degrees north latitude to Penglai in Shandong Province at 38 degrees north latitude, with a latitude span of 20 degrees north-south reaching 2 100 kilometers, and a longitude span of 28 degrees east-west vertical.

In terms of specific provinces, tea is planted in more than 20 cities and counties such as Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Gansu, Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan Province. There are both alpine tea gardens with an altitude of 2600 meters, and low hills and flat tea gardens with an average altitude of 200-300 meters. By the end of 20 19, the planting area of tea gardens in China reached 45,978,700 mu, of which Yunnan Province was the largest, reaching 6,999,000 mu. Guizhou Province, which ranked 1 the year before last, ranked second, but its planting area also reached 6.987 million mu, which was not much different from Yunnan, and Sichuan Province, which ranked third, reached 5.75 million mu.

As can be seen from the data, the planting area of tea gardens in China is expanding, and the output of tea is also increasing. The excellent transformation of planting areas and tea garden varieties is constantly improving, and the quality and benefit are also obviously improved. Moreover, at present, all localities are still vigorously developing tea production and cultivation. It is believed that the scale of tea production in China will be further expanded and the tea planting area will be further increased.

2. How did the tea areas in China distribute and change in history? 1. Eight tea areas in Tang Dynasty

Before the Tang Dynasty, although tea cultivation in China had developed to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it was still concentrated in Sichuan, Hubei and eastern Henan. After the Tang Dynasty, tea entered a stage of great development and prosperity, and it was at this stage that the recorded division of tea areas in China officially began.

According to Lu Yu's Book of Tea in the Tang Dynasty, there were 43 counties growing tea in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, which were divided into eight tea areas, namely, Shannan tea area, Huainan tea area, West Zhejiang tea area, Jiannan tea area, East Zhejiang tea area, Middle Guizhou tea area, Jiangxi tea area and Lingnan tea area. The eight major tea-producing areas cover 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, including Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Anhui. In fact, there is an important tea-producing area in Lu Yu's Tea Classic, which is not included in these eight tea-producing areas. This is a tea-producing area in Yunnan, because Yunnan was Nanzhao at that time.

2. Song Yuanming Tea Area

In Song Dynasty, tea planting and production developed further, especially in the Yangtze River valley and Huainan area. In Song Dynasty, tea trees were planted in 242 counties in 66 states, which were divided into five major tea areas: Jiangnan Road, Huainan Road, Jinghu Road, Liangzhe Road and Fujian Road. On the basis of tea planting areas in the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty systematically divided tea into two important producing areas, namely Zhongshu Province in Zhong Xing, Jiangxi and Zhongshu Province in Huguangxing. The Ming Dynasty basically inherited the division of tea areas in the Yuan Dynasty. It is worth noting that Zheng He's voyages to the West brought tea seeds to Taiwan Province Province, which opened up tea areas in Taiwan Province Province and expanded the tea planting scale in China again.

3. Six tea production centers in Qing Dynasty

The division of tea areas in Qing dynasty is different from that in previous dynasties. This is because the foreign trade of tea was relatively developed in Qing Dynasty, coupled with the gradual improvement of tea production technology and processing technology, the six major teas in China were basically formed, so the division of tea areas was centered on tea.

According to historical documents, there were six tea production centers in Qing Dynasty, namely brick tea, oolong tea, black tea, green tea, edge tea and Cynthia scented tea. Brick tea production centers are mainly in Xianning, Hubei and Yueyang, Hunan; Oolong tea production centers are mainly located in Anxi, Jian 'ou and Chong 'an in Fujian Province. Black tea is mainly produced in Qimen, Anhui, Wuning, Jiangxi and Anhua, Hunan. Green tea is mainly produced in Wuyuan, Jiangxi, Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Huqiu, Jiangsu. The edge tea production centers are mainly located in Ya 'an, Wenchuan and Anxian in Sichuan Province. Cinnabar scented tea is produced in luoding city.

4. Division of tea areas in the Republic of China.

During the Republic of China, although China tea suffered an unprecedented blow because of the war, many tea people still highly summarized and summarized the division of tea producing areas in China. Among them, Wu Juenong and Hu Haochuan, the famous tea men, once proposed to divide China into 13 tea producing areas, including 8 export tea producing areas and 5 domestic tea producing areas. Professor Xie Chen divided the tea in China into four parts, namely, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi tea areas, Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan tea areas, Hunan and Hubei tea areas and Yun Chuan Kangcha areas. Although these tea areas have their own characteristics and opinions, they have laid a solid foundation for the determination of the four modern tea areas in China.

3. What are the division methods and characteristics of the four modern tea areas? 1. Division principles of four major tea areas

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the production and cultivation of tea have been actively and effectively restored. Many tea scholars continue to effectively divide the distribution of tea areas in China. As early as 1956, Professor Ruzhuang Wan Fang divided the tea-producing areas in China into north-central, south-central, Sichuan Basin, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and South China. 1958, Professor Wang Zenong proposed to divide China tea into three regions: Central China, South China and West China. In the 1980s and 1990s, many tea experts put forward their own views on the division of jurisdiction in China.

In fact, the division of tea areas should belong to the economic concept, so it must be considered under the guidance of the overall national development principles and policies, combined with natural, economic and social conditions, and pay attention to the basic integrity of administrative areas. Therefore, the four major tea areas established in China are determined and divided according to regional differences, tea production history, variety types, tea structure, production characteristics and other factors. These four tea areas are called South China Tea Area, Southwest Tea Area, Jiangnan Tea Area and Jiangbei Tea Area.

2. The distribution range of the four major tea areas.

South China tea areas mainly include Fujian and south-central Guangdong, Guangxi and south Yunnan, Hainan and Taiwan Province Province. Southwest tea areas mainly include Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, north-central Yunnan and southeastern Tibet. Jiangnan tea area is mainly located in the south of the Yangtze River, including northern Guangdong and Guangxi, north-central Fujian, southern Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei provinces, as well as Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Jiangbei tea area is located in the north of Yangtze River, south of Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains and east of yi river in Shandong Province, including Gansu, Shaanxi, southern Henan, northern Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu and southeastern Shandong.

These four tea areas are basically divided according to the corresponding administrative divisions and the historical and production characteristics of tea planting types, covering all tea areas in China.

3. Production characteristics of the four major tea-growing areas

Tea-producing areas in South China belong to tropical monsoon and subtropical monsoon climate. It is the highest temperature tea-producing area in China, with an average annual temperature of more than 20 degrees, which is the most suitable area for tea tree growth. Therefore, the main varieties of tea in South China are arbor type and small tree type, and shrub type is also distributed, but the relative quantity is relatively small. South China tea region mainly produces black tea, Pu 'er tea, Liubao tea, green tea and oolong tea.

Southwest tea area belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, with relatively complex terrain and high altitude. The annual average temperature is much lower than that in South China, only about 14~ 18 degrees. But the southwest region is the origin of tea, so the quality is very outstanding. The main types of tea trees are shrub type, small arbor type and arbor type, and the main teas produced are green tea, Pu 'er tea, edge-selling tea and scented tea, and of course black tea.

The tea-producing areas in the south of the Yangtze River are dominated by the subtropical monsoon climate, but the subtropical monsoon climate in the south is dominated, and the annual average temperature exceeds 15.5 degrees, which is also a suitable area for tea tree growth. The varieties planted in Jiangnan tea area are mainly shrubby middle-leaf species and small-leaf species, and the middle-leaf species and large-leaf species of small trees are also distributed, but the number is small. Jiangnan tea region mainly produces green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea and black tea. It can be said that most of the top ten famous teas in China are produced in Jiangnan tea area.

Jiangbei tea area belongs to the monsoon climate of north subtropical zone and warm temperate zone, and the annual average temperature is below 15 degrees. Therefore, compared with other tea-growing areas, tea grows for a longer time, and it comes to market later. Generally speaking, the tea-growing areas in Jiangbei are all small and medium-sized shrub species, which mainly produce green tea. The biggest feature of green tea in Jiangbei tea area is its high aroma and strong taste, because its tea leaves grow for a long time and are rich in contents.

Generally speaking, in the history of tea planting in China for thousands of years, the division of tea areas was determined according to the continuous expansion of tea planting scale and the development and changes of the whole economy and society. The determination of the four major tea areas in China is not only conducive to improving the scale of tea production and planting, but also conducive to giving play to the regional ecological, economic and technological advantages and enhancing the overall competitiveness of China's industry.