Tea-drinking Folk Custom in Yiyang
Black tea and green tea are abundant in the territory, and both urban and rural residents have the habit of drinking tea. If you have guests, you must make tea with boiling water first. On holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations, all guests treat each other with tea. Many people add ginger, salt, cheese and beans when making tea with boiling water, so it is called ginger-salt cheese bean tea. A cup of tea, nearly half of ginger, cheese, beans and tea, tourists drink dry tea first, then eat ginger, cheese and beans. Taojiang and Anhua counties pay attention to drinking tea. Every household has a pottery bowl, a bowl rack and a tea stick (about 5 feet long). When making tea, first put the tea leaves into a grinding bowl, then add sesame seeds, ginger and uncooked rice, grind them into paste, and then brew them with white sugar and boiled water. They are like soybean milk and milk, which are cool and delicious, and have the effects of relieving summer heat, detoxifying and nourishing. After the 1980 s, there appeared a processing factory that produced tea. There are also business households that specialize in smashing tea in the street.