What is Side-selling tea?

What is Side-selling tea?

Side-selling tea refers to tightly pressed tea and square packets of tea that are made from dark hair tea,old green tea, black tea,green tea as the main raw materials, fermented, steamed, pressurised or crushed, and fried, and are specially sold to the border ethnic minority areas.

In China's nomadic people in the northwest to beef and mutton as the main food, vegetable intake is small, can not supplement the body's vitamin needs, and tea is rich in vitamins and easy to carry, drinking tea has become one of the main ways to supplement the vitamins and other elements needed by the body. in ancient China, the nomadic people of the northwest region is very much dependent on the efficacy of the tea for the body, the rulers of the successive generations of tea as a way to maintain the peace and stability of the hinterland and border herdsman Necessities, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilising the frontier.