Tea Culture in Ancient Guizhou

Tea is the most important beverage in our country, its flavor is not divided into regions, not divided into ethnic groups, there are just different ethnic groups in different regions to create a different tea culture. Guizhou is China's earliest to have a series of tea technology in the region, in the various nationalities *** with the efforts of the tea culture in Guizhou has become a source of pride.

China is the world's first country to plant tea, tea and tea drinking, and Guizhou is China's tea, tea and tea drinking one of the earliest areas. Tea is the "national beverage" of the Chinese nation. It was developed by Shennong, known as Lu Zhougong, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, popularized in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has become one of the three non-alcoholic beverages (tea, coffee, and cocoa) that have taken the world by storm.

The Guizhou plateau is known as the "Kingdom of Fossils" by paleontologists, and on July 13, 1980, the only fossilized tea seeds in the world were discovered. The appearance of tea seed fossils, laid Guizhou is the origin of the tea tree, tea tree origin of the most convincing physical evidence. The discovery of tea seed fossils in Qinglong is not only the pride of Guizhou, but also the pride of China, the valuable wealth of all mankind, and a rare treasure.

Guizhou is a treasure trove of tea varieties. Is a province with the most tea varieties. National 270 kinds of tea tree resources, only Meitan County accounted for 163 kinds. This is the conclusion of the national survey of tea resources from 1939 to 1949. Guizhou high mountains, warm climate and fog, no pollution, tea quality is naturally excellent, such unique conditions, so that almost all counties in Guizhou County good tea, many areas in the Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties are the court tribute tea.

Guizhou is a multi-ethnic province. Over the past thousand years, how many people and countless tea enthusiasts, leaving tens of thousands of tea poems, tea words, tea fugue, tea songs, tea, tea, tea stories, tea riddles, tea proverbs and other literati works and folklore.

Compatriots of all nationalities in the long-term tea production and drinking, accumulated a wealth of experience and created many and rich in national characteristics of the tea ceremony and tea customs, such as guests to the tea, shallow tea full of wine, phoenix three nodding, cover the bowl of thanks to the tea, three tea and three rituals, etc., are compatriots of the nationalities with innovative characteristics of the tea ceremony, not only reflecting the longstanding formation of the nationalities of the tea customs have a positive significance, but also to enliven the life of the compatriots of the nationalities. The tea ceremony is not only a reflection of the positive tea customs long formed by various ethnic groups, but also an active life of ethnic compatriots.

From the folk tea culture in Guizhou tea culture resources are rich and colorful, tea culture is profound. Historically, before the 1911 Revolution, the mountainous areas of Guizhou are marginalized by the mainstream culture corner. For a long time formed a cultural island, there are "five miles of different customs, ten miles of different days" said. In the long history of its reproduction, it also created, inherited and developed its own unique culture.

The 17 hereditary ethnic minorities discovered and utilized the process of tea, forming a rich and colorful tea culture. In these different cultural environments, the use of tea in religion, rituals, weddings, ceremonies, socializing and other aspects of the formation of the indigenous people of Guizhou unique characteristics, colorful folk folk tea culture.