The relationship between tea production, consumption and trade in the Tang Dynasty is a mutually-conditional and mutually reinforcing relationship. If the development of tea production and consumption in the Tang Dynasty strongly promoted the development of tea trade, then, in turn, the great development of tea trade in the Tang Dynasty further promoted the corresponding development of tea production and consumption. Tea is produced in southern China, and no tea is produced in the northern and northwestern minority areas. Therefore, Chinese tea trade is mainly the tea in the southern tea area, which is trafficked to the north area.
The border tea trade in the Tang Dynasty was also very prosperous. The knowledge of tea and tea has spread to the history of the ethnic minorities in the northwest. It may have been for a long time, but the records of tea drinking and tea trade in the vast minority areas of the northwest began in Tang Dynasty. According to records, after some ethnic minorities in the frontiers of China have contracted the habit of drinking tea, the local herdsmen rode the horses to the southern China for tea exchange. Later, through the messengers and merchants, the famous tea-horse trade in the history of our country was created.
