桃源县民间品茶、饮茶及药用茶的乡俗,源远流长,风格独特,且颇具科学性、社会性和人情味,是桃源优秀传统文化的一个组成部份。一、擂茶桃源擂茶始于东汉。汉代伏波将军马援领兵驻扎于桃花源和剪市一带,以石窟避暑,此地多瘴致使军中发生瘟疫。于是使用茶叶、生姜、茱萸、盐和米研成浆汤,各五味汤,令将士饮之,而后瘟疫得以制伏。自此,桃源南部(后扩展到全县)家家喜饮擂 Taoyuan County Folk tea, tea and medicinal tea’s rural customs, goes back to ancient times, unique style, and quite scientific, social and human flavor, is an integral part of Taoyuan outstanding traditional culture. First, beating tea Taoyuan tea began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Han Ma Fubo General Marcel led troops stationed in the Peach Blossom Spring and scissors around the city, to the summer in the grottoes, more than enough to cause a military plague. So using tea, ginger, dogwood, salt and rice into slurry soup, the five-flavored soup, so soldiers drink, and then the plague can be suppressed. Since then, Taoyuan southern (after the extension to the county) every hi drink