The Historical Origin of Ziyang Selenium-enriched Tea

Ankang City, where Ziyang County is located, has a long history of tea production, at least 3000 years. Shennong, the tea ancestor, formed the earliest tea-drinking custom in Shaanxi, creating a "tea-drinking style" in Shaanxi for 5,000 years, and Shaanxi created a "tea-horse exchange market", which spread "tea-drinking" to the north and south of the country and formed a national tea-drinking style. Shaanxi tea culture is the source of China tea culture, and its development history basically represents the development history of China tea culture. As the best tea planting area and main tea producing area in Shaanxi Province, Ankang is the earliest place to cultivate tea trees and produce tribute tea in China, and it has always been in the middle of the origin of tea trees and the ancient political, economic and cultural center.

According to "Huayang National Records Eight Records", "there are Hanzhong in the north and Qianfu in the south. Five seeds were planted in the soil and six animals were sacrificed. Silkworm, hemp, fish salt, copper, iron, Dan, lacquer, tea, honey, Gui Ling's giant rhinoceros, pheasant and fresh powder of Huang Jian are all tribute. The treasures of its fruit are litchi on the tree, spicy vines and fragrant tea in the garden. " Among them, fragrant tea refers to tea. This shows that tea cultivation has become very common in Pakistan, including Ziyang tea area today.

The introduction of Buddhism played an important role in the spread of tea. According to ancient documents, Buddhism was introduced to Ziyang in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because monks pay attention to meditation and abstinence, they opened a tea garden next to the temple to drink tea. In the folk, tea gardens specially planted for tributes have also appeared one after another.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to the war, a large number of refugees poured into Daba Mountain area, which promoted the development of mountainous areas and tea. After hundreds of years, the Hanshui River Basin has been relatively stable-this is an important reason why Jinzhou became a famous rich area at that time in the Tang Dynasty. The "Xicheng and Ankang County Valley" in Jinzhou (today's Ziyang, Ankang and Gao Lan areas) became a part of the southern tea area of Tangshan, which was recorded in Lu Yu's Tea Classic. The imperial court also listed tea as the second largest tribute after gold. "New Tang Book" contains: "Jinzhou ... Tugong bran gold, tea tooth, pepper, dry paint, pepper seed, white gum incense, musk, Eucommia ulmoides, thunder pill, bitter orange and phellodendron bark."