Puer

The cultural history of Pu’er Tea

普洱茶以其集贸中心之普洱地区命名，千百年来，其独特的韵味享誉古今中外，普洱茶兴于东汉，商于唐朝，始盛于宋，定型于明，繁荣于清。普洱茶的声誉常盛不衷，声名远播，之所以如此，是因为其产地均为高海拨云雾山中，系无污染的纯天然茶叶，滋味醇厚，经久耐泡；另由于历史上普洱县交通不便，运输只好靠马帮，经茶马古道外运，为便于运输将茶叶制成团、砖、饼等形状之紧茶，且在越区运输、储藏过程中，茶叶产生后发酵，形成了独特的陈香味和药用保健功效。

Pu'er Tea, which named after the area Pu’er where this kind of tea centralized and marketed rose up in the Eastern Han Dynasty, turned into commercial in the Tang Dynasty, began to be popular in the Sing Dynasty, as finalized in the Ming Dynasty and prospered in Qing Dynasty with a history of thousand of years. Pu'er Tea is hot and famous both home and abroad all the time all lies its habitat of high elevation and foggy growing environment. It is a kind of pollution-free tea in nature, mellow in taste and can steep for a long time; Moreover, the unique manufacture, transportation, packaging of Pu'er Tea made it become a unique second fermenting tea, thus has formed the unique crusted fragrance and the health care function.

普洱茶的生熟区分

The deference of ripe Pu'er Tea and mature Pu'er Tea

1．生 茶：原茶性、原茶味、利用时间来陈化转变，实现越陈越香的价值

2．熟 茶：原茶性、已改味，改味就是利用发酵原理，致使生茶之刺激性做适当退化。

3．渥堆茶：原茶性、已走味，是利用科学加人为发酵，使生茶之苦涩刺激性快变达到无刺激性的目的。

1. Ripe Pu'er Tea: The original tea, the original flavor, the original taste of tea needs a rather long time to ferment into crusted fragrant Pu'er Tea.

2. Mature tea: The original tea, naturally changed flavor and taste the fermentation. 3. Moistens piling Pu'er Tea: The original tea but the flavor has artificially changed by the quick fermentation, which is non-irritant in flavor but not as good as the mature Pu'er Tea.

The deposit of Pu'er Tea

普洱茶存放方式多种多样，实际上只需将茶品置放在干净通风处即可，“人可住茶就可以放”。一般不要让太阳直接照射，不要置放在冰箱里，不要放在密封、真空罐，更不要将茶品装箱密封置放固定不通风处，越陈越香需在干净的处所，方能达到加分之效。

The storage and depositing of Pu'er Tea is quite simple and various. In fact it only needs to de stored in a clean and ventilating place then. “Where people can live is to be allowed to deposit Pu'er Tea”. Generally just do not have the tea be in the direct solar radiation, refrigerator and seal and vacuum tanks.

Puer Tea effect:

Chinese medicine considers that Puer Tea has the effect of detoxification, digestion, to fatty, purge, and relieving coughs and so on. The modern medical research shows that the tea efficacy of Puer has been up to nearly 20 items such as weight loss. It can warm the stomach; prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, lower blood pressure. What’s more, it is also famous for its role in health care such as anti-aging, anticancer, antibacterial anti-inflammatory, reducing drug charges, reducing heavy metal toxicity, anti-caries, anti-drug and prevention of constipation, hangover, etc. Particularly Puer has good reputation for the stomach warm, weight loss, prevention of arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease, blood pressure lowering, anti-aging, anticancer, and hypoglycemic. In modern life, as social pressures and the impact of eating habits, most people gradually become to be in a sub healthy state. More and more people get fat. The health efficacy and unique production process of Puer tea make it known as a fashionable drink and it will be more and more popular in the future.

Effectiveness

Health Benefits of Puer Tea: Pu'er Tea is quite famous in China as a Tea of its role in health care. It has the benefit of lowering blood pressure and fat, reducing weight, lubricating the stomach, invigorating the function of the spleen, aiding digestion and so on. It is good for anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, lipid-lowering and lower blood pressure, anti-atherogenic, and reducing one's cholesterol levels. Moreover, it can prevent cancer, containing amino acid, catechin, chlorophyll, vitamin C and other ingredients than those in other tea and more nutrient-rich.