The Song Dynasty And The Surrounding Minority Tea Trade

Song dynasty exist with Tibetan Empire for along time, in the context of thishistory, had been developed very well. Due to the environmental constraints,the areaof Tibet can not plant tea trees. The people of Tibet need more tea and they haveformed their unique tea culture though a long time. With the economic developmentof tea industry in the Song dynasty, tea had been produce so much. Song dynasty andTibetan Empire have been friendly. These factors has become the reason why songdynasty and made tea trade. The trade of tea between song and Tibet have threeforms:the trade in the tax and monopoly of tea yard,tribute and grant trade andsmuggling trade. There are a lot of features has been appeared in the trade of teabetween them,such as,the trade of tea maximize undertake the task of purchase fromTibet. The price ratio of tea and house has been concerned by song and Tibet.The twoparties according to the certain principle made the price of tea.The price ratio of teafor house has always Presents the price fluctuation and existed unreasonableprice.For this reason,song and Tibet made positive adjustment. In Song dynasty, teaproduction was large because of the advantages of unique environmental in Sichuanprovince the production of tea was large.The tea had been be controlled by Songdynasty and had been sold to Tibet, the tea that from Sichuan Province is the largestcommodity in tea trade, the trade of the between song dynasty and Tibet has played ahuge role.the trade become effective policy to control Tibetan Empire.Song hadgained rich profits and had Purchased a large number of warhorses through the tradeof tea.Finally.the trade meet Song dynasty needs of the horse.