Glorious history, the way of tea

According to the Financial Times reported recently, China and Central Asia and around the G-7 agreement between China and Europe to build a cost of 192 million, enough with the historical "Silk Road" trade route comparable to the modern. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to invest in the region, the construction of roads and railways, construction will begin next year, is expected to end in 2018. It is reported that the volume of trade between Asia and Europe more than one trillion U.S. dollars, and the present volume of trade transported through Central Asia is less than 1% in the 200 years ago, there was a channel of trade between Asia and Europe, known in Chinese history leading to the Nordic The tea trade is transported through this route map of Sino-Russian border Chuck, it has the habit of this road known as the Tea Route. So, today rebuilding trade routes between China and Europe for the year of great significance to the way of tea.

The Road and Silk Road tea in Chinese history known as the two most prestigious international trade golden path. Silk Road of Han Dynasty through life like an umbilical cord, will be Asia, Europe and facilitate the integration of African civilization, is the convergence of Eastern and Western ancient civilizations blood. Tea Route, total length of about 5,000 km south from Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan and Hubei provinces, north to Russia and the Nordic countries, thousands of kilometers long, as long as 200 years.

It is reported that at the time of thousands of miles of tea on the road, not the business of tea production, processing tea from Fujian, but rather Shanxi business group. Two years ago, China Central Television broadcast the "Qiao Family Courtyard," people tend to think that tea is the most famous of trafficking in Joe's family, and in fact the most prominent is not qiaojiaqu year, but Jinzhong City of Shanxi Yuci District Chang's family. Ming Hongzhi years, moved by the Taigu Yuci regular Huian's family, several generations of hard work and money to take the world of the bold vision, Dare the heroic spirit, thousands of miles ride, perseverance, and created Russian tea trade, long road.

Chang's family tea at the Mount Wuyi, Wuyi tea will be procured locally processed into tea brick tea, water to the "tea in Hong Kong," Hankou, water transport via the Han to Xiangfan and Tanghe, Du flag. North shore from the mules and horses as beasts of burden by Luoyang, over the Yellow River, the more Jincheng, Changzhi, Taiyuan, Datong, Zhangjiakou, naturalization (this Hohhot), then switch to caravans crossing the desert more than 1000 kilometers of wilderness, and finally arrived at the border crossings just grams of Figure transaction. Russian companies will be tea and then transported to Irkutsk, Urals, Tyumen, St. Petersburg and Moscow until the remote. Kyakhta tea trade is a bridgehead between China and Russia. Since then the Government will actively engage in trade with China, Tsarist Russia, Tsarist Russia the government and merchants to make profitable. So there is a saying, "A kyakhta worth three provinces."

According to historical records, 17th century Russian tea leaves very little input, only a small amount of tea sold later. In 1792 the second "kyakhta Treaty" signed, tea trade began to boom, the 18th century, tea accounted for 30% of the total value of trade between China and Russia, in 1810, brick tea, pekoe tea imported a total of 24,570 worried. All the merchants in tea merchant, once the most prosperous time of more than 100. The regular's one, from the Qianlong often when Wanda was started in the trade, children and grandchildren each other, after Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong 7, North Korea, followed more than 150 years, particularly in the late Qing, in the appropriate Ketu in dozens of large firms, often one's actually exclusive Fourth, called the province's foreign trade for the family of the Qing Dynasty. As often in Russia's trade with vision and strategy, but also the importance attached to faith, quickly get Russia and the Russian government's attention to business, business to kyakhta will soon experience the north of the territory of Russia, in Russian territory Moscow, Khabarovsk and more wood, Chita and other regional and other European countries have their tea semicolon. Merchants of the tea business in the process, stretching thousands of miles of tea transport, land, sea, mountain also robbers, who through thick and thin, hard, for the tea to the Nordic countries opened the channel, in the history of Chinese Tea set the contribution.

90's of last century, Inner Mongolia, a famous writer Deng Jiugang re gone the way of tea history, and in-depth study of the history, also published the famous "Tea Road" book. He is also hoping to Chinese history, this important documentary Miles Tea Road Show to the world through television, but has been shelved because of financial problems. This year is the Russian Culture Year, Chinese President Hu Jintao will give his hometown in Anhui Province Tea Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia set off a wave of Chinese Tea, which will promote Chinese Tea in the world of. So, research the history of Tea in China for the promotion of tea, to promote China's tea trade with the Nordic countries is of great significance.