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, Jiayu) Tang Dynasty (now Chongyang and Tongcheng). After the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to Wuchang County and Xingguo Army or Wuchang Road and Wuchang House, so the ancient books in Xianning mainly refer to the tea in six counties and cities in Xianning today. Because our city used to be Ezhou, it is now in the south of Hubei Province, so it is called "southern Hubei" for short.
Tea in southern Hubei is very old, and there is a record of "tea picking in Wuchang Mountain" in Jin Dynasty. At that time, southern Hubei belonged to Wuchang County, and only Jiugongshan was a mountain. "Wuchang Mountain" should refer to Jiugongshan area. Tang Luyu's Tea Classic. Tea leaves "has the saying that Jiangnan tea leaves Ezhou". Today's southern Hubei is the main body of the Tang Ezhou, and it should also be the main tea-producing area at that time. At that time, the big black teas in the Tang Dynasty (now Chongyang and Tongcheng) and Pu Xian counties were very famous. In the Song Dynasty, the tea business in southern Hubei flourished, and Xingguo Army was famous for producing pieces of tea. Su Dongpo visited the house for tea and poems. Famous teas such as "Jinbao, Shuang Sheng, Fengshui and Taohua" are world-renowned; In Chongyang (including Tongcheng), "Longquan tea" produced in Longquan Mountain (hereinafter referred to as Xiaogang Maojian) is of high quality, good quality and large quantity, which has reached the grand occasion of "people taking tea as their business". Notes in Song Hui Shi Yao Huo Zhi: "In the thirty-second year of Emperor Gaozong Shaoxing (1 152), Yongxing (now Yangxin) and Tongshan of Xingguo Army were 936,555 Jin ... Puyin, Jiangxia, Tongcheng, Wuchang, Jiayu, Xianning and Chongyang of Ezhou were 65,438+. It can be seen that by the Song Dynasty, tea-producing areas with Xingguojun and Chongyang as the main areas had been formed in southern Hubei, and the quality, quantity and benefit of tea were very high, which was the first prosperous period of tea in southern Hubei. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, due to the over-exploitation of the tea-horse official market and the influence of Zhang Yong, the magistrate of Chongyang County in the Song Dynasty, the tea industry in Xingguo and Chongyang gradually declined, and the focus shifted to Yanglou Cave in Pu Xian, where tea (steamed green cake tea) was changed to "hat tea", initially occupying the border Mongolian market, and Yanglou Cave began to become a famous tea market in Hubei.