张宏达:为普洱茶正名的植物学家

ZHANG HONGDA:BOTANIST RECTIFYING THE NAME OF PU-ERH TEA

中国是世界茶树的原产地。但在国力羸弱的晚清时期,出于挤压占领中国茶叶市场份额的需要,西方霸权主义者做了一系列诋毀中国茶的商业宣传行为,原本举世公认的“茶起源于中国”受到西方质疑。是胡先骕、张宏达等几代植物学家经过扎实研究,断定印度阿萨姆种茶树源自云南西南部,并把阿萨姆种改名为普洱茶种,科学地确定了普洱茶作为世界茶树原种的地位,扭转了一段被殖民者和功利者蓄意扭曲的植物史。

China is the origin of tea in the world.However,in the late Qing Dynasty when the national power was weak,in order to crush and occupy the market share of Chinese tea,western hegemonists made a series of commercial propaganda to discredit Chinese tea,and the originally universally recognized "tea originated in China" was questioned by the West.It was Hu Xianxiao,Zhang Hongda and other botanists,after solid research,concluded that Assam tea plants originated in southwest Yunnan,and Assam species was renamed Pu’er tea species,scientifically determining Pu'er tea as the world's tea origin,reversing the deliberately distorted history of plants by colonialists and utilitarians.