When you set foot on snow-covered plateau, whether walking the streets in the town, walk through the village lanes, or across the vast grasslands, as long as people smoke where there is strong tea fragrance. Enter the Tibetan people, whether distant or frequently see each other’s friends, visitors, owners Lift first fragrant tea, respectfully ask you to drink before we start the greeting procedure. Tibetan women, hardworking and intelligent, the first thing after getting up to fight fire boil tea. What am Tibetan people can not wash it all down, but can not drink tea. Even people to the station, airport and ferry bid farewell to friends and relatives to the hospital to visit patients, to relatives of the deceased to offer condolences to the park had “traditional garden”, also can not do without tea. All over the streets of tea, it is often young people enter, the elderly often come and go.
China’s Muslim northwest, “Gaiwan Cha,” Mongolian “tea”, the North Han “tea”, along the southeast coast of the Han and Southeast Asia, “Kung Fu Tea”, Yunnan Wa’s “Bitter Tea” … … its unique production and drinking method known world, and the Tibetan “buttered,” “sweet tea” and “tea” held a more unique color.
Relatively simple method of making tea, dark tea, boil for a long time to revolve juice, then adding a little salt, pour one cup or drink. Associated with tea in the light of faint salty, makes Qinxin comfortable, Yue Heyue drink.
Sweet tea, also known as milk tea, the tea into the pot of boiling revolve dark brown, tea-leaf filter, pour some water dilution, to be moderate light, then add milk or milk powder, white sugar, and a little salt in the kettle hard rock, so that harmony, the place near the stove or thermos flask containing people inside, with the drink with the back, drink, add a little master. The cup of tea drank, do not want to drink, or was preparing to leave. Of course, the masters of hospitality but also repeatedly ask you to drink. Sweet and delicious sweet tea, is also widely popular, most of the street tea is sweet tea. People in the tea house, not only taste delicious sweet tea, also chatted, playing chess, playing Crown ball, enjoy enjoyed.
Making butter tea, first brick (V tea) deep making for a long time revolve juice, tea-leaf filter, adding butter and a little salt, wooden barrels in the hold system – hard whipped butter in the bucket, so butter and tea blend, and then in a pot on the fire, or the installation of the thermos bottle, the side edge down to drink. Almost the same sugar beet drinking laws, just floating in the tea drinking before the first plane side of the oil gently blown drink. Teacup also more particular about the past more than the wooden bowls and the bowl with Lid, now generally a small bowl with printing, there are still used in wooden bowls and Bowl of. Bowl male and female are different, the slightly larger male, and more rugged. Run Gan aromatic butter tea, high nutritional value, is essential Tibetan drink product. Living in the highlands Han, Hui and other nationalities are also delighted to drink butter tea.
Tibetan people that drinking habits, and plateau production of unique natural environment and way of life who are inseparable. According to experts, studies have shown that tea contains large amounts of theophylline, caffeine, vitamin B1, B2 and vitamin C and other substances. Tibetan people, living mainly in livestock, meat-based, theophylline can dissolve fat, can help to digest than the greasy, helps digestion. Relatively high altitude plains of fresh vegetables and fruits are more scarce it is difficult enough intake of vitamin needed by the body, a lot of tea, can be compensated properly. High altitude snow, cold lack of oxygen, often wind grab the skin splits open, face cracking; oxygen makes dizziness, shortness of breath, palpitation, vomiting, tea fragrance oil, caffeine can play excited the brain, promoting the body metabolism, increasing blood vessels and heart function to refresh and protect skin, supplemental oxygen, relieve altitude sickness. Some people say that drinking butter tea, sweet tea, but also to a certain extent, the medical common cold, asthma, cough and other diseases. Although there is no scientific reason how many people knows, but people in their daily lives are deeply understand the great benefits of tea, so tea drinking endless transfer of learning long, long history.
According to Tibetan folklore, the year three hundred years ago, Tibet and no tea, then drink one kind of bark Tubo residents decocted juice. To the liberation, many can not or can not afford to buy the poor tea farmers and herdsmen, still drinking the juice of this bark boil. After the war prosperity of frequent vomiting Lei, soldiers and horses have been to the Central Plains, won from the neighboring nation of tea. At first I wonder what that thing, wonder what purpose. Later, by the influence of other nations, the Tibetan upper class began to drink tea. To the seventh or eight century, Princess Wen Cheng and Jin Chenggong main Tibet have not only introduced to the Central Plains of advanced scientific and cultural knowledge, it also brings a large number of materials, Tang and expanded trade, including the tea trade. From the beginning the people of Tibet common tea, and gradually formed its own of Tea.
