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Mountain tea oil ---The emperor seals the
imperial meals
When Qin has name Gan Laogao the soup; At
the end of the Chinese called the paste soup tea Tang Dynasty
beginning calls the tea-oil tree, continues to use until now.
According to B.C.E. three centuries "Shan Hai Jing" book
record: "Wood, south oil food also". Here said "a wood" is a
tea-oil tree, obviously our country folk started to take the
oil tea at that time to extract oil supplies edible. In the
history, the tea oil once was "the emperor seals the imperial
meals" the oil used .
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Camellia Oleifera has a long cultivation
history. Long long ago, Chinese people had the tradition of
picking mature fruits of camellia oleifera to make edible oil.
It is recorded in exordium of Shanhai Jing that has a long
history of 2, 300 years: Yuanmu is used by South China to make
oil. “Yuanmu” is just camellia oleifera. Due to its unique
efficiency for human health and the rarity of its
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In the war between Chu and Han, Han’s Emperor Liu Bang was
wounded and went to Wuzhi. After he had the camellia oil, his
wound was recovered and became stronger, so he appointed it as
the court royal food.
After the famous poet Li Shangyin in Tang Dynasty had it,
he ever wrote the verse for the oil-tea camellia: “Aromatic
nutritious with good taste, one cup brings about spring in
Anchang”.
camellia oil is always the designated royal
tribute. It was particularly popular during the Ming and Qing
Dynasties. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only relatives
of the emperor had the opportunity to enjoy the good points of
camellia oil. This kind of tree, which is exclusively owned by
China, so we can say the Chinese camellia oil is the world
camellia oil, and is the treasure bestowed by the nature to
the land.
Emperor Yongzheng highly praised camellia oil with poems
after he tasted it: The camellia oil of Huaiqing is so
delicious that no other cate can compare favorable with it. He
delivered an imperial order to open up oil-tea camellia
houses. Since then, the oil- tea camellia has been prestigious
all over the country. |
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Camellia oil is called “precious product for
confinement care” and “oil for confinement care” at Jiangxi,
Fujian, Taiwan and etc.From time immemorial, people of Hainan
have the habit of taking some camellia oil before
drinking. |
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Today, wild camellia oil tree resource
gains good protecting and development. Oil-tea camellia
industry opens out its wing to soar fly, and a natural barrier
will be established for healthy diet of Chinese
people.
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