In Tibetan areas, almost every household prepares butter tea. Buttered tea is an essential drink on the table, whether it is daily diet, entertaining tourists or holiday greetings. Buttered tea is an indispensable partner when eating some staple food or snacks.

The taste of butter tea is quite special. People who have never drunk it will feel a little bad. The first taste is strange, the second taste is pure and fragrant, and the third taste is lingering.

Legend of butter tea

Historically, there were two neighboring tribes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and they forged a feud over trifles. Later, however, Mei Meicuo, the daughter of a tribal toast, fell in love with Wintumba, the son of another tribal toast. However, due to the gap between the two tribes, it is difficult to get married with each other! In order to prevent this marriage, the woman's tribal toast even sent someone to murder Wentongba.

Meimeicuo was deeply saddened to learn of the strange death of his sweetheart. She stayed in Lacrimosa all day without thinking about tea and rice. When she learned that the neighboring tribe held a cremation ceremony for Wentongba, she resolutely went alone and jumped into the sea of fire when others were unprepared.

In this cruel way, a pair of lovers hastily ended their love story without holding hands, which made people really admire the loyalty of the wicked mandarin ducks to love.

Later, Meimeicuo was reincarnated as the tea of the mainland tea tree, but Wintunba went to Qiangtang and became the salt in the salt lake. Whenever people play with butter tea, water, tea and salt will naturally mix together, which means that the lovers will meet again and never part.