A long time ago, there is an ethnic group called Yao, they live in the "thousand holes", with little contact with the outside world, do not know the reform of Emperor Zhu, still follow the old system of cooking oil tea.

The Ming Dynasty said that the Yao people in Qianjiadong did not pay the imperial grain, and sent troops to purge the Yao people in Qianjiadong. A part of the Yao people fled to Gongcheng, and one of them, the Yao eight-family people, who were relatively large in number, chose the flatter area around Gahui to settle down, and brought with them their traditional delicacy - oil tea.

Because the Jiahui Yao lived along the Cha Jiang River, occupying a convenient location for transportation and a large number of people, the oil tea of the Jiahui Yao spread. During the Qing Dynasty, there were thousands of families in *** and a single Tang Huang village. People who fished on the Cha River had to pay taxes to them. They built the Tang Huang Temple and held a grand temple fair every three years, which was attended by people of all ethnic groups in the neighborhood.

The temple fair stipulates that the native people are not allowed to grab the firecrackers, and only the foreign villages are allowed to grab the firecrackers. To participate in the temple fair of foreigners, the eight houses are hospitality. The custom of drinking oil tea and treating guests with oil tea has spread.

Expanded Information:

The main raw materials for making oil tea are, first, tea leaves, second, tea seed oil (camellia oil), and third, ingredients: rice flower, crispy soybeans, fried peanuts, scallions, and glutinous rice.

The specific production method of oil tea is: the first cooked glutinous rice dried in the sun, with tea seed oil burst into rice flowers, and then a handful of rice into the pot dry frying, and then put into the tea leaves and then fried, and add the right amount of water, after the pot will be filtered out of the tea leaves and put away. To drink oil tea, will be prepared in advance of the rice flower, fried peanuts, etc. put people in the bowl, will be filtered tea pouring people, is the color and flavor of the oil tea.

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