Anhua dark tea belongs to the category of dark tea. It is named after it is produced in Anhua County, Hunan Province, China. It uses large-leaf tea grown in the mountainous areas of Anhua, which is cured, rolled, stacked, baked and dried. Black tea is processed by other processes and refined as raw materials (including artificial post-fermentation and natural aging). Now, let’s take a look at the following two articles to find out!
This is all the effects of Anhua dark tea!
China’s main tea Black tea, one of the most popular teas, is an indispensable item for Tibetan, Mongolian, Uyghur and other ethnic groups. ?It is better to go without food for three days than to go without tea for one day. ? seems to be the origin of this statement. There is a representative category of dark tea? Anhua dark tea. After emerging at the 2010 Shanghai Expo,
it became popular across the country at lightning speed and became the new favorite of countless tea lovers. In addition, Anhua black tea has extremely rich effects. Today, follow me at Huaxiangyuan to learn about the effects of Anhua dark tea!
1. Supplement dietary nutrition
Anhua dark tea is rich in nutrients, mainly vitamins and Minerals, in addition to proteins and amino acids, can supplement nutrients.
For the residents of the northwest who mainly eat beef, mutton and cheese and lack vegetables and fruits in their diet, long-term drinking of Hunan Anhua black tea is an important source of essential minerals and various vitamins for their bodies. , there is a theory of tea of ??life.
2. Help digestion, relieve greasiness, and smooth the stomach
Anhua black tea contains vitamins, amino acids, phospholipids, etc., which can help digestion, relieve greasiness, and the caffeine in it can promote gastric juices Secreted to aid digestion.
3. Reduce lipids, lose weight, soften human blood vessels, and prevent cardiovascular diseases
High blood lipid content will cause lipid deposition on the blood vessel walls, thus causing atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis. Thrombus formation. Anhua dark tea has good fat degradation, anti-hemagglutination, fibrinogen dissolution and significant inhibition of platelet aggregation. It can also relax the blood vessel wall and increase the effective diameter of the blood vessel, thus inhibiting the aorta and arteries. The formation of atherosclerotic plaque in the inner walls of coronary arteries. Achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure, softening blood vessels, and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases.
4. Anti-oxidation, delaying aging, and prolonging life
The free radical theory of aging believes that under normal physiological conditions, free radicals in the human body are constantly produced and removed. in a state of equilibrium. The catechins, theaflavins, theanine and tea polysaccharides in Anhua dark tea, especially the complex flavonoids with high content, all have the function of scavenging free radicals, and therefore have the effect of antioxidant and delaying cell aging.
5. Anti-cancer and anti-mutation
Cancer is a disease that kills many people. Tea and its extracts have an inhibitory effect on many cancers. Anhua black tea has an inhibitory effect on tumors. Cells also have inhibitory effects.
6. Lowering blood pressure
Tea has long been reported to have the effect of lowering blood pressure. The caffeine and catechins in tea can relax blood vessel walls, increase the effective diameter of blood vessels, and lower blood pressure through vasodilation. Tea pigment has significant anticoagulant, promote fibrinolysis, prevent platelet adhesion and aggregation, inhibit the proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells
, and can also significantly reduce triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein in the serum of high-fat animals. , increases high-density lipoprotein in serum, has a significant inhibitory effect on ACE enzyme, and has a blood pressure lowering effect.
Anhua dark tea? Development history and medicinal functions
Anhua dark tea
Anhua dark tea belongs to the dark tea category because it is produced in Hunan, China Named after Anhua County, black tea is made from large-leaf tea grown in the mountainous areas of Anhua through processes such as fixing, rolling, stacking, baking and drying, and is refined as raw material (including artificial post-fermentation and natural aging). formed).
The main varieties of Anhua dark tea include "Sanjian", "Sanzhuan" and "Yijuan". Sanjian tea is also called Xiangjian tea, which refers to Tianjian, Gongjian and Shengjian; "Sanzhuan" refers to Fu brick, black brick and flower brick; "Yijuan" refers to Huajuan tea, now collectively known as Anhua Qianliang tea.
Let’s take a look at the development history of Anhua dark tea
In the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, dark tea was designated as “official tea”
Anhua Before being designated as official tea, dark tea belonged to merchant tea and could not be sold to Yima. Because of its strong and mellow taste, large quantity, good quality and low price, it is favored by the border ethnic groups and is smuggled across the border in large numbers by tea merchants, strongly impacting the "official tea" market. In the 23rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1595), the censors Li Nan and Xu Jiao debated the ban and liberalization of Hu tea (Anhua dark tea). Finally, the Ministry of Household Affairs made a ruling and the emperor designated Hu tea (Anhua dark tea) as the most popular tea. "Official Tea", this has epoch-making significance in the development history of Anhua dark tea. After that, tea merchants from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi and other regions gathered in Anhua, and Anhua became the main tea production base for the tea-horse trade in the Ming Dynasty. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Anhua dark tea gradually occupied the northwest tea market.
Anhua Black Tea Golden Flower
At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, "Golden Flower" was born
At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, tea merchants from Shaanxi and Gansu were established in Anhua The purchased black tea is crushed into "drink packages" and transported to Jingyang, Shaanxi Province, where it is pressed into Fu Brick tea. During the production process, Fu Brick tea breeds a kind of probiotic called "Jinhua", whose scientific name is "Corontocystis sp." ?, has become the main indicator of the quality of Fu bricks and is exported to northwest, Russia and Central Asia.
Zuo Zongtang
Zuo Zongtang restructured and promoted Anhua black tea
Zuo Zongtang, a famous military general and leader of the Westernization Movement. Appreciated by Peng Shu in his early years, he lived in Anhua Xiaoyan for 8 years and was well versed in Anhua black tea. During the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty, there was ambiguity between the Hui people in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the transportation and sales of Anhua dark tea stagnated. During his tenure as governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Zuo Zongtang rectified the tea affairs in the northwest, promoted tea policy reforms, implemented "voting in lieu of tea introduction", ended the nearly thousand-year "tea introduction" system in the history of Chinese tea, lowered tea taxes, and encouraged tea merchants from Shaanxi and Gansu. Hunan transports and sells tea.
Mawangdui Anhua black tea
The first Anhua black tea found in the Mawangdui Han tomb
The Mawangdui Han tomb in Changsha belongs to the family of Wu Hou Li Cang, the prime minister of the Changsha state of the Western Han Dynasty. The cemetery was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in my country in the 1970s. Bamboo awnings were found in M1 and M3, containing scrolls with the inscription "茶一笥". After research, it has been verified that "茶" means "茶", which means "?" A box of tea? The actual contents in the box were sliced ??and analyzed to be tea. The Western Han tea unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha is most likely the earliest physical object of Anhua tea.
Dark tea was exported overseas via the Maritime Silk Road
In 1842, after the Opium War, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other ports opened up to foreign trade, and a large number of tea merchants came to Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other provinces. Entering Anhua, he worked together with Anhua tea people to create Anhua black tea and developed rapidly. Through the Maritime Silk Road, he and black tea were sold to Britain, France, the United States and other countries and regions.
Wanli Tea Ceremony
The roads in Anhua Mountain are high and dangerous, and the main means of transportation on land rely on horses and mules. During the peak production and marketing season, horses neigh and bells ring in the high mountains. Over time, the Ancient Tea Horse Road was formed. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Anhua dark tea was designated as "official tea" and was mainly sold in the northwest. Tea merchants from Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi competed to purchase it. Tea markets, tea houses, tea shops, and tea pavilions emerged at the historic moment, and there was an endless stream of transportation and sales teams. Therefore, it is said that the "Ten Thousand Miles of Tea Road" originated from Anhua. The Ancient Tea Horse Road in Dongshi was rated as one of the top 100 new discoveries in the country in the third national cultural relics census in 2012.
Medicinal functions of Anhua dark tea
China has a history of using tea to treat diseases since ancient times. There are many records of ancient folk using old tea to treat diabetes, dysentery, colds, etc. .
Research on the functions of dark tea has proven that dark tea has at least nine major health effects: supplementing dietary nutrition; aiding digestion, relieving greasiness, and smoothing the stomach; lowering fat, losing weight, softening human blood vessels, and preventing cardiovascular disease; antioxidant, delaying Aging, prolonging life; anti-cancer, anti-mutation; improving carbohydrate metabolism, lowering blood sugar, preventing and treating diabetes; sterilizing, anti-inflammatory; diuretic and detoxifying, reducing the toxicity of tobacco and alcohol.