Bamboo Tube Tea of Dai Minority


Bamboo Tube Tea is a kind of special tea culture in Dai Ethnic Minority.The Dai ethnic minority is a hospitable people good at singing and dancing. The Dai bamboo tea is a traditional tea drink for the Dai people who has been handed down from generation to generation.

Bamboo-tube tea is known as Laduo in Dai language. The producing procedure of bamboo-tube tea is quite special, which can be divided into three steps. 1) Put the tea into bamboo tube. Put the dried spring tea (the tea growing in the spring time) or preliminary-processed tea into the bamboo tube. The bamboo used should be just chopped down and has a growing period of about one year. 2) Bake the tea. Put the bamboo tube on the fire for 6 to 7 minutes until the tealeaves is softened. Press the tealeaves with a wooden stick, and then fill up the tube again with more tealeaves. Repeat this procedure until tealeaves in the tube are compacted. 3) Take out the tea. When tealeaves are completely baked, cut open the tube with a knife and take out the column-shaped bamboo-tube tea. 

After everybody sits at the round bamboo table, we can make the bamboo-tube tea. 1) Make the tea. Break off some bamboo-tube tea with fingers and put it into teacups, then pour boiling water with an amount of 7/10 or 8/10 cup. After 3 to 5 minutes of brewing, the tea is ready. 2) Drink the tea. The bamboo-tube tea has the pure taste of tea as well as the strong flavor of bamboo. One will find everything new and fresh when drinking the delicious tea. 

The bamboo tube tea has both the mellow taste of tea and the rich and fragrant fragrance of bamboo. Its color is golden and translucent. It tastes refreshing and refreshing. It has the effect of regenerating thirst and promoting body health and beauty.

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