Tea Trade in Hekou Town of Yanshan County in Jiangxi Province During the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Because of the geographical advantage,Hekou town in Jiangxi province played an important role in the tea trade during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Hekou was an important ancient commercial town in the Xinjiang river basin,which was a place of planting,processing and transport.Its trade distribution center and transportation hub had made outstanding contributions to the tea trade between China and foreign countries.Tea merchants set out from Hekou and went south to Zhejiang,Fujian and other places.Through Guangzhou,they opened up an overseas tea route connecting the two major plates of Europe and Asia to the north and linking the tea route of Ten Thousand Li among China,Russia,and Mongolia,which left a new and brilliant chapter in China's geographical map.