Nanjing
It's a city closely related to the tea culture
In the various stages of the tea culture from germination to popularization
Nanking plays a pivotal role in the city.
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Quite an origin:Nanjing City and Tea Culture
Nanjing since ancient times, although not the center of tea production, but Nanjing in the whole history of China's tea development occupies an important position. "Tea instead of wine" "tea to raise honesty" allusion to the Jinling in the Eastern Wu, "tea for the sacrifice" "tea for the gift of the earliest records also appeared in Nanjing. The earliest records of "tea as a sacrifice" and "tea as a gift" also appeared in Nanjing.
Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there have been people planting tea on Mount Qixia in Nanjing. To the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the tea sage Lu Yu to Qixia Mountain tea picking and writing the "tea scripture", the book once recounted the story of the "Guangling Jie Lao", Qixia Temple in modern times, there are still old traces of the test tea pavilion on the mountain. In the "send Lu Hongjian Qixia Temple tea picking" in the article there is also evidence, "Regent Hill has tea ping", it can be seen at that time Qixia Mountain tea is planted into the ping, just later deserted.
