Qinghai: The Horse-for-Tea Market at Chiling青海：茶马古道上的一站
青海 · QINGHAI
Not a tea-growing region; a market for kang brick, jinjian and fu brick teas, and the site of Tang-era horse-for-tea trade at Chiling (today's Riyue Mountain).非原产茶区。康砖、金尖与茯砖共同行销；唐代「缣马交易」与赤岭互市的所在（今日月山）。
2 tea regions below. Compiled from public sources, October 2026.下文 2 个茶贸节点，据公开资料整理，2026 年 10 月。
Riyue Mountain (Chiling)日月山（赤岭）
Historic tea-trade stop历史茶贸点In 743 a Tang-Tubo alliance stele was set up here and a horse-for-tea market opened; an important starting point of the tea-horse trade.公元 743 年唐蕃会盟立碑于此，建「茶马互市」，是茶马贸易的重要起点。
Xining西宁
Historic tea-trade stop历史茶贸点The seat of the Xining tea-horse office set up in the Qing dynasty.清代所设西宁茶马司所在。
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Qinghai is not a tea-growing region. It was a market for kang brick, jinjian and fu brick teas, and the site of Tang-era horse-for-tea trade. The points above are trade stops, not growing areas.青海不是产茶区。它是康砖、金尖与茯砖的行销地，也是唐代茶马互市的所在。上面列的是茶贸节点，不是产茶区。
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- ← Back to the China Tea Map — all 24 provinces and their 109 tea regions.← 回到中国茶地图 —— 24 个省份、109 个茶区。
- Fujian in full — nine tea regions written out with their origins, land, craft and taste.福建茶区全解 —— 九个茶区，逐条写源流、风土、工艺、品鉴。
- Choosing a gongfu tea set — what actually goes into one, and why.功夫茶具怎么选一套 —— 一套里到底有哪几件。
- Choosing a tea tray — the piece everyone forgets until it is too late.茶盘怎么选 —— 最容易忘、又最晚才想起来的那一件。
- Questions about how to brew any of these? Write to me — if I don’t know, I’ll say so.不知道这些茶该怎么泡？写信给我——不知道的，我会直说。
We sell tea ware, not tea. Region names and origin details on this page are compiled from public sources (October 2026); where a claim cannot be sourced, we leave it out.本站卖茶器，不卖茶。本页茶区名称与产地信息据公开资料整理（2026-10）；没有出处的，我们不写。