yesterday, one from Britain The news of the country is all over the country, and it is related to our old Shaanxi. Originally published in the British Journal of science, Han Jing Di's Hanyang mausoleum discovered the earliest Chinese tea. China business newspaper reporter interviewed experts from the provincial Archaeological Research Institute, the discovery was made by the Academy of Sciences, which was commissioned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to identify the soil. The Hanyang mausoleum was found in China's earliest tea, at least 2150 years ago.
experts from the provincial Archaeological Institute and Deputy captain of the Hanyang mausoleum archaeological team said that as early as 1998, archaeologists made detailed drilling of the Hanyang mausoleum and found 86 outer pits around the mausoleum, and archaeologists have tried to dig 11 outer pits on the eastern side of the earth. A large quantity of organic matter remains in the outer Tibetan pits, including wooden horses, cartons, grain, animal skeletons and so on. The online translation said tea was found in a wooden box, and Yang Wu Station said he looked at the English text. The translation was a mistranslation, in fact it was in a burial pit.
archaeologists discovered some foliage things in the burial pit, and sent them to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the end of 2008. After testing, experts found that these leaves turned out to be tea leaves, which appeared to be of top quality and made entirely of tea shoots. Tea buds are usually considered to be higher than ordinary tea. Emperor Han Jing died in 141 BC, and concluded that the tea was at least 2150 years ago. It is also the earliest tea found.
professor Dorian Fuller, director of the International Center for Chinese antiquities and Archaeology at the University College London, said: "this discovery shows that modern science can reveal important details of ancient Chinese culture, which was previously unknown. The discovery of tea in the tomb of the Emperor gave us a rare glimpse of the very old traditions and made us have a new understanding of the origin of tea, one of the most popular beverages in the world. The scientific analysis of the food and other sacrifices in the tomb of Liu Qi's tomb shows that he also takes millet, rice and quinoa to another world in addition to tea. The findings were recently published in the science report of the open network science magazine, published in the British Journal of nature.
according to the tea culture expert and Liang Zi, a researcher at Shaanxi Museum of history, China is the first country in the world to discover, cultivate and utilize tea. According to historical data, tea plants originated in China. More than 5000 years ago, our ancestors discovered that tea has the effect of detoxification.
the tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty also found tea objects
scientists discovered that tea was transported to Tibet Ali area at least before 1800. It is speculated that a branch of the Silk Road crossed the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Relevant results have been published online recently in the science report.
tea originated in China. The earliest tea objects were found in the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has long been speculated that tea, silk and porcelain will be transported along the Silk Road from central Changan to Central Asia and beyond. So far, there is no evidence of tea entering Xinjiang or Qinghai Tibet Plateau before the Tang Dynasty on the silk road. It is generally believed that as the ancient tea leaves have been rotted or carbonized, it is difficult to preserve them and find them difficult to identify.
Lv Houyuan, a researcher at the geological and Earth Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with colleagues at home and abroad to carry out plant identification and chronological analysis of the suspected tea food residues unearthed from the Xizang Ali area such as the monastery site and the Xi'an burial pit. They found that tea has 4 types of calcium plant morphology and combination characteristics, and by chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of the standard samples of modern tea, the two biomarkers of tea were identified: caffeine and theanine. Through 14 years of carbon dating, it is proved that the age of the unearthed plants of the monastery site is about 1800, which belongs to the period of the male kingdom of the Tibetan ancient elephant. The unearthed plants of the mausoleum of the Han Dynasty are about 2100 years old, and they are in accordance with the historical documents. This is also known as the earliest tea object in the world.