Why is black tea the drink of life for frontier nomads?

The drink of life of the nomads on the frontier in the past

Nowadays, it is a good health product for people's daily life

Anhua black tea inherits culture, and what you drink is health .

A place of water and soil breeds beauty. The ancient and famous Anhua black tea comes from the rolling Zijiang River and the rolling snow-capped mountains.

The bells ring in the mountains, and the horse caravans come. Between the mountains in Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, there is an ancient tea-horse road. Tang Xianzu, a famous dramatist and writer in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "Black tea is so beautiful, Qiang horses are so special." This is the famous "tea and horse trade" in history.

The ancient dark tea trade not only promoted exchanges between various ethnic groups, but also met the health needs of frontier nomads. Nowadays, Anhua dark tea has become the new business card of the Chinese nation.

01 "One day without tea will cause stagnation, three days without tea will cause illness"

Dark tea is the source of vitamins for herdsmen

In Tibet, Qinghai, and Xinjiang There is a saying that has been circulating among herdsmen in , Inner Mongolia and other places: "It is better to go without food for three days than to go without tea for one day. One day without tea will cause stagnation (stagnation refers to indigestion), and three days without tea will cause illness."

The daily diet of nomadic people is mainly beef and mutton, and they rarely eat vegetables. As everyone knows, there is also a substitute for vegetables, which is tea. For local people, drinking tea is equivalent to eating vegetables, and it has been this way for thousands of years.

Modern research has found that tea can provide rich vitamins. The caffeine, amino acids, phospholipids, etc. in tea can aid digestion and regulate fat metabolism. A French medical expert team once came to China for investigation and found that although the nomads eat high-fat, high-protein, and high-cholesterol meat as their staple food, their cholesterol, blood lipids, and triglycerides are all normal.

Why? Finally, the expert team targeted the black tea that local people often drink. Researchers from Hunan Agricultural University also found that drinking black tea can effectively regulate and prevent affluence diseases such as hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.