Section I　V Pu’er Tea overseas

Pu’er tea is one of the earliest Chinese tea to be exported to foreign countries.In the mid-19th century, with the British’s occupation of India and Myanmar, and the French’s occupation of Vietnam, Yunnan was immediately classified as the sphere of influence that invaded China.After the 23rd year of Emperor Guangxu (1897), Britain and France successively set up customs in Sipu region, and Pu’er tea was exported to Europe successively, becoming a fashionable drink of the upper class in Europe.Pu’er tea is deeply loved by royal families and citizens in Britain, France and Russia.Pu’er tea is still popular overseas, especially in Britain, France and other countries, for its unique taste and functional characteristics such as clearing food, relieving boredom, eliminating phlegm, reducing blood fat, losing weight and resisting cancer.Because of this, Pu’er Tuo tea of Yunnan had a good name in France and entered the“Pharmacopoeia”of health food.Since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese have spared no efforts to promote things from their own country,but purchase only one thing from others, that is Pu’er tea.The Japanese, who have always been extremely critical of food and drink, have made generous statements about the benefits of drinking Pu’er tea.Sakamoto Kojiro, President of Japan’s China Medical News Agency, gave a rare and incisive description of the health care function of Yunnan Pu’er tea.The brilliance of Yunnan Pu’er tea is that it still has a strong vitality after thousands of years of history.As long as we drink it regularly, we will especially feel its effects in helping diuresis, digestion, losing weight, fitness and appetite enhancement.It should be popularized to keep more and more people all over the world healthy.

In recent years, Pu’er tea has got popular in foreign countries.It has attracted the attention of consumers to a certain extent.This kind of attention often has a mysticism and novelty-seeking feature.But generally speaking, Pu’er tea is still a minority drink abroad.The influence of Pu’er tea is still very limited in the huge American market where it is not popular to drink tea.At present,most of the Pu’er tea consumed abroad is fermented.It is mainly exported to Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries.Although the volume of Pu’er tea exported to Europe and America has not increased significantly, many scientists and tea consumers pay great attention to the efficacy of Pu’er tea and have also carried out a lot of research, which also promotes the spread and influence of Pu’er tea in the world.