What kind of tea is also called sansheng soup? Its main raw materials are tea, ginger and uncooked rice.

Sansheng Tang refers to smashing tea, which is an ancient way of eating tea preserved by Tujia people living in Wuling Mountain area of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. It is called "Sansheng soup" because it is a soup made of raw leaves (that is, fresh tea leaves that have not been fried), ginger and raw rice, which are crushed, mixed and boiled with water.