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When 2020, which is annoying, finally comes to an end, and when the first day of 2021 comes, whether it is Weibo, WeChat headlines, or circles of friends, whether it is in the north or the south, various blessing languages are like the azaleas blooming all over the mountains and fields. Come in like a tide.

On the first day of the New Year, at the Yao Mansion on Changhu Road, a Yao aunt wearing national costumes used a wooden mallet to crush the tea leaves in an iron pot while boiling them, saute them with oil, add ginger, then add water to boil them, and then filter the hot tea was served to us by a beautiful Yao Mansion little sister.

It is said that three cups of wine in the mortal world and one pot of tea for a thousand years of great success. How many good times have you wasted by drinking the wine and supporting the wall?

And all the hegemonic ambitions in the world are dormant and growing in a pot of tea.

The way modern people drink tea originated from the Ming Dynasty and formed today's way of drinking tea, which is to make tea.

Camellia oleifera, which is popular in various parts of Guangxi, where the Yao, Miao, and Dong communities in China, has always followed the custom of tea drinking with condition-flavor characteristics of the Tang Dynasty. This method is characterized by adding various seasonings when making tea. According to historical records, Camellia oleifera began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years.

Camellia oleifera has several styles in Guangxi. The most famous one is Guilin Gongcheng Camellia oleifera, which is known as Chinese coffee. The Camellia oleifera produced by Yao Wangfu originated from Gongcheng, which is rated as the hometown of longevity in China. It is said that the secret of longevity has a lot to do with Camellia oleifera.

The Yao Palace uses old leaf black tea as the main ingredient, stir-fry in oil until slightly burnt and fragrant, add salt and water to boil, and most of it add ginger to boil. The taste is strong and astringent, with astringent and spicy.

About ten years ago, I came to Gongcheng for an interview with a northern friend. The northern friend who drank Camellia oleifera for the first time was very uncomfortable and said that it was the most difficult thing he had ever drunk. But within a few months, he said that he would invite me to drink Camellia oleifera at the Yao Palace in Nanning. Sure enough, good food will always change a person, and good ingredients will always be addictive. Sometimes when you fall in love with a delicious food, you will fall in love with a city.

In Nanning, when it comes to Camellia oleifera, everyone naturally thinks of Yao Wangfu. After 12 years of silent hard work, Yao Wangfu has said that the ingredients of Yao Wangfu are good and that drinking Camellia oleifera must go to Yao Wangfu. This is not only the recognition and consensus of Nanning diners, but also the sincere dedication and pursuit of ingredients by Yao Wangfu people.

The tea taste of Camellia oleifera is always strong and a little astringent. After importing it, it is the bitterness of the tea at first, but later it is sweet and fragrant, which is endless aftertaste. Many friends in the north are never accustomed to it, and then they fall madly in love.

Yao Wang Fu interprets this classic chapter with a legendary story. It is said that two Northeastern people came to Guangxi from afar and brought a bowl of Camellia oleifera out of Dayao Mountain by chance. Since then, they have become enthusiastic disseminators and fans of national culture.

This is the mental journey of Guo Yanqiu and Guo Xiaoguang, the founders of Yao Mansion.

"The ancients talked about the origin of medicine and food. The main raw materials of Gongcheng Camellia oleifera include Yaoshan Laoye rough tea, Yaoshan rattan ginger growing at an altitude of 1400 meters, garlic, peanuts, etc. Drinking Camellia oleifera all year round is good for people living in the alpine zone of northern Guangxi. The Yao people have the effects of dispelling dampness and cold resistance, resisting cancer and losing weight. According to the current popular health concept, this is an alkaline food."

The more they understand and love them, the more they love them, Guo Yanqiu and his wife understand Camellia oleifera.

Since the first store in Yao Wangfu in January 2008, various branches of Yao Wangfu have now spread all over the city. Today's Camellia oleifera is no longer the orchids that Guo Yanqiu and his wife originally seemed to grow in the mountains and unknown to the world. Today's Camellia oleifera has long gone out of the mountains and entered the city. It has been popular among Nanning diners and has now become the most distinctive diet in NanNing City.

Over the past few years, Yao Wangfu has been rated many times as China's Green Demonstration Catering Enterprise, China's Top Ten Cultural Catering Brands, International Famous Tourism Catering Store, Guangxi's Catering Management Benchmark Enterprise and many other honors. It is a shining star in Guangxi's catering industry and a national catering business card.

Yao Mansion has brought Gongcheng's Camellia oleifera to Nanning and has continued to develop and expand. It is said that when you drink water, you will never forget the well-digging people. Yao Mansion has been insisting on doing charity and various public welfare activities over the years.

Since the opening of the Yao Palace, for every pot of oil tea you taste, the Yao Palace will donate 2 yuan to your reputation to the poor children in Yaoshan to realize their desire to study.

In the past extraordinary year, Yaowangfu Catering Co., Ltd. donated 500,000 yuan to support the development of ethnic education in Gongcheng County. In the words of Guo Xiaoguang, the person in charge of Guangxi Yaowangfu Catering Co., Ltd., this is their expression of social responsibility, enthusiasm to actively participate in public welfare undertakings as best as possible, and good willingness to support the development of ethnic education in Gongcheng.

Love in this city stems from the most precious sincerity and enthusiasm in each of us. It can warm each other with each other and illuminate each other together.

When the New Year's sunshine warms this cold earth again, bid farewell to the past that was unbearable to look back on, and invite a few relatives and friends to the Yao Palace to chat together while making camellia oleifera and enjoy the mellow aroma of camellia oleifera. Wouldn't it be beautiful?

If you find it troublesome, you can also order takeout from Yao Mansion.

Yao Wangfu takeout Camellia oleifera is of the same quality, with various ingredients and tea bags, warm and then add ingredients.

Popcorn, stir-fried peanuts, crispy fruits, chopped rice, etc., add chopped green onion, refined salt or white sugar, then scoop up the hot tea juice and rush it into a bowl. A bowl of fragrant Camellia oleifera is ready to eat.

It is said that a cup of milk tea in the end of winter is not as good as a sip of Camellia oleifera in the New Year. Sweet milk tea is easy to get drunk. It is not as good as the bitter to sweet taste of Camellia oleifera, which provides little comfort to the soul.