一、宋代茶叶市场概说 茶叶生产是从唐代开始异军突起的一个新兴的商品生产领域,到宋代已越来越多地向专业化生产迈进。随着生产的发展,茶叶消费愈益普及。时人谓:“夫茶之为民用,等于米盐,不可一日以无也。大量材料表明,茶叶产地在宋代基本全集中在秦岭淮河以南,而消费市场则主要是汴京等大中城镇,特别是周边少数民族地区。因此介乎生产与消费之间的交换必然也相应发展,出现了“商于海者,不宝珠玉,则宝犀瑁;商于陆者,不宝盐铁,则宝茶茗”的说法。 I. Overview of the Song Dynasty tea market Tea production is a new commodity production field which has emerged from the Tang Dynasty. It has been increasingly moving toward specialized production in the Song Dynasty. With the development of production, tea consumption has become increasingly popular. When the people said: "Cup of tea for civilian use, equal to rice salt, can not be no day. A large number of materials show that tea production in the Song Dynasty was basically concentrated in the Qinling Mountains south of the Huai River, while the consumer market is mainly in Beijing and other large and medium-sized In cities and towns, especially in the surrounding ethnic minority areas, the exchange between production and consumption will inevitably develop accordingly, with the emergence of “business-to-sea, not-blossom-blossom, then-bamboo-bamboo-bamboo, business-to-land, and not-salt-iron,” Then Baocha’s statement.