Many new tea lovers often confuse the tea ticket and internal ticket of Pu’er tea. Today I will take you to understand these terms of Pu’er tea and the differences between them.
What is a tea ticket?
Tea ticket, the abbreviation of tea ticket. The original nature of “Cha Yin” is a certificate of tea trafficking, which is equivalent to a “tea selling license”. After Xianfeng, the introduction of tea was gradually abandoned. In order to increase tax revenue, the government issued tea tickets to tea merchants, and the tickets were used to replace the tea, and taxes were paid according to the tickets.
Tea tickets are easily reminiscent of meal tickets. Meal tickets can be exchanged for meals, but what about tea tickets, can they be exchanged for tea?
The content on the face of the tea ticket represents the money paid by the tea merchants for the monopoly of tea. Therefore, the tea ticket also has the function of a value symbol, which can be transferred, gifted, bought and sold, and can even replace currency. Just like this one, it looks like a coin, of course it can be exchanged for tea.
But now you may get beaten up to exchange tea tickets with tea tickets, because the tea tickets have already expired, so you spend them with the things from the previous dynasty? It has become a relic. So what you collect is not tea, but cultural relics.
Internal tickets are different from tea tickets. They are hidden in Pu-erh pressed tea and are a part of pressed tea.
What is an internal ticket?
When you open the outer wrapping paper of Pu-erh pressed tea, the first thing you see is the “inner ticket”, which is a larger piece of paper, usually printed with tea introduction, manufacturer or specific brewing method, precautions class information. In fact, it is a piece of advertising paper stuffed into the package. You can print an advertisement, a poem, or even a story, a quotation, or a confession.
Now, apart from identifying old teas, Neifei’s anti-counterfeiting function has gradually weakened, and more of them are printing tea company logos or tea product names. Because Neifei’s anti-counterfeiting is so good, you can’t open the tea cake when you buy tea, dial out Neifei to check the authenticity? It’s unrealistic. You won’t know until you buy it and drink it. And what we bought was tea, not the piece of paper, right? To identify tea, you still have to drink it.
