Buttered tea is a kind of liquid beverage with tea as the main ingredient and various ingredients, so it has many flavors. It tastes salty, fragrant and sweet, which can not only keep warm, but also supplement nutrition.
For thousands of years, the Tibetan people have created a tea culture with tea culture and tea parties as the core in the struggle against harsh natural conditions, and tea culture runs through parties such as making friends, festivals, parting and falling in love.
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In Tibet, every Tibetan family can see ghee anytime and anywhere. Butter is an indispensable food for every Tibetan. Tibetan families drink tea at least three times a day, and some even drink tea as much as a dozen times.
To put it simply, it is to mash the special tea leaves into juice, add ghee, salt and refined spices, and stir them in a tea barrel with a tea stick to make them fully blended, that is, Tibetan butter tea.
Tibetans regard tea as a sacred thing, from "Zanpu" to temple lamas, from toasts to ordinary people. Because of its food structure, milk and meat account for a large proportion, and there are few vegetables and fruits, so Tibetans take tea as a supplement and rice is essential. There is a saying that "three days without food is better than one day without tea".
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are few people and few guests enter the house. Occasionally, guests come to visit, and there are very few things to entertain. In addition, the unique function of butter tea has also become a precious etiquette for Tibetans to entertain guests.
Tibetan butter tea is a kind of tea with tea as the main component, and it is "tea suma" in Tibetan, which means stirring tea. With the development of the times, butter tea is constantly adding new elements. A small amount of coffee is added to butter tea, which has a faint coffee flavor and is favored by young people.