Black tea making skills (South roadside tea making skills)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: black tea making skills (South roadside tea making skills)

Applicant: Ya'an City, Sichuan Province

Item No.: 935

Project No.: VIII - 152

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Sichuan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Ya'an City, Sichuan Province

Protection unit: Ya'an Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (Ya'an Tea Horse Ancient Road Research Center)

Introduction to black tea production technology (South roadside tea production technology)

Applicant: Ya'an City, Sichuan Province

Black tea is the only kind of tea that can be stored for a long time, and its production is all by hand. The quality of black tea is excellent, the production standard is strict, and it is required to select the tea accurately, dry the tea, fill the tea, step on the tea tightly, and the production process is closely linked and meticulous. The most famous black teas in China are Anhua Qianliang tea in Hunan Province, Yiyang Fuzhuan Tea and yaan South roadside tea in Sichuan Province. These black teas have a long history, profound cultural heritage and high technology content in production.

Nanlubian tea is produced in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province. It is also known as "black tea", "bianpin tea", "Nanbian tea", "Yacha" and "Tibetan tea". It is made by manual operation through natural drying, special pressing, packaging and other processes. Its production techniques are characterized by heavy fermentation, post fermentation, multiple fermentation, non enzymatic fermentation and color changing fermentation. Ya'an South roadside tea is mainly supplied to Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan Ganzi, ABA and other Tibetan areas, enjoying a high reputation among the Tibetan people. This kind of black tea has excellent quality, bright brown red soup, mellow and long taste. It can be mixed with butter, salt and walnut kernel powder to make butter tea. It is an indispensable drink for Tibetan compatriots every day. With the development of social economy, affected by information, transportation, supply and demand and other factors, the market competition of black tea is fierce, the price difference is increasing, and the vicious competition among enterprises leads to the decline of product quality, which affects the reputation of black tea. Rectifying and standardizing the black tea market, protecting and promoting the black tea production technology has become an urgent task.