The rise of the tea industry in the Sui and Tang Dynasties

By Emma Chang | 10 October 2018 | 0 Comments
The history of the Sui Dynasty is not long, and there are not many records of tea. However, because the Sui unified the whole country and built a canal that communicates the north and the south, it is still of positive significance for promoting the economic, cultural and tea industry development in the Tang Dynasty. As we all know, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese tea industry had a period of great development. Since then, tea has been a regular drink for the southern Chinese, its from the south to the central China and then has been passed from the central China to the frontier minority areas, and it has become Chinese national drink. Therefore, there are teas in China



that have the idea of “prospering in Tang” or “thriving in Tang”. It was in the Tang Dynasty that tea began to have its own word, tea began to sell to rural and surrounding countries, tea began to collect taxes, in a sentence, until then, tea really formed into an independent and national culture or cause.
 



Production area of tea in the Tang Dynasty
Lu Yu, the sage of tea, listed the tea production area of the Tang Dynasty in his "Tea Classics". According to his records, the Tang Dynasty tea production areas have spread throughout Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, fourteen provinces; and its northern limit, where has been extended to Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, which means that the tea production area in the Tang Dynasty has reached a similar situation with the modern tea area in China. The production and marketing centers in Zhejiang and Jiangsu have gradually become professionally engaged in tea production. The Tang government also set up the first tribute bunkhouse in the history of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, which specializes in the use of Tang royal court tea.




 
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