Huangshaping Ancient Tea Market
黄沙坪古茶市
A Ming-era tea market street on the bank of the Zi River. It has been a distribution hub for dark tea since the Wanli period, and its tea houses, former tea warehouses and bluestone wharves are still preserved.
Huangshaping lies on the bank of the Zi River, across from Dongping Town in Anhua County. Since the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, it has been an officially recognised market for dark tea. At its peak, tea houses crowded the area, and dark tea was loaded onto boats here and shipped down the Zi River to Hankou and Jingyang, then transported on to the northwest. Today the old street retains its stone paths, timber shopfronts, former tea house sites and an old wharf, and it is listed among China's Traditional Villages. Many dark tea workshops and teahouses line the street, where you can sample fu brick tea, tianjian tea and thousand-tael tea, and buy loose tea. Admission is free. It is ideal for an evening stroll, and combined with the China Dark Tea Museum in the county seat it makes a half-day tour. The coordinates are estimated.
Opening hours
All day