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Even water gunpowder tea,

The gunpowder tea is one kind which the Shaoxing tea farmer originates fries the blue green tea, also calls the round tea. Its contour circle is tight, assumes granulated, luster green Run, body bone heavy, just like pearl, endosarc fragrant Gao Weinong, prolonged bears soaks. This tea by “bead” naming, most appropriate.
The even water, is southeast Shaoxing a historical glorious market town. When Tang, here already was the famous tea, the liquor collection and distribution center. During near 300 years the Qing Dynasty to Republic of China's, here has become the gunpowder tea purification processing and the collection and distribution center, therefore on international called “the even water gunpowder tea”, continues to use continuously until now.
After gunpowder tea selling to overseas, the translated name is very interesting, the foreigner translates is “Gunpowder”, meaning of the Chinese is the fire ammunition, before rifle invention, bullet also perfectly round like bead ball. Therefore image of the foreigner translated name is vivid, also is not inferior to the Chinese government.
Gunpowder tea foreign translated name “Gunpowder”, but also occasionally makes the joke to come. It is said, in 1981 had the Hong Kong merchants once seriously to suggest inland tea export corporation, changed this translated name, in order to avoid hindrance sale. But inland port company considered this has continued to use for several hundred years, if the change translated name, on the contrary and really must hinder the sale, therefore has not accepted this warmhearted person's suggestion. In 1984 the Zhejiang Province green tea trade group went with our country to establish diplomatic relations the soon Ivory Coast discussion service, the Indian who did business in the locality, was really good to the gunpowder tea sample impression, but when sign contract, many times requested actually, the commodity name fence only could use “the Chinese green tea” the cage to be called it, being sure not demonstrated so as to avoid “Gunpowder” the inscription, the reason was misunderstood by the local customs the munitions transaction.
The gunpowder tea exportation initial period, in the London market, the selling price is very high. The foreign merchant also directly comes our country to purchase the gunpowder tea. In 1702 the English specially permitted after the clear royal government on Zhoushan Island sets up the trade station, mainly purchased the even water gunpowder tea. According to the record, at that time some left for England's freighter, in which gunpowder tea has occupied 1/6.