In 2013, having visited Anhua (Hunan), we could not return without a souvenir 36.5kg 'column' of compressed tea.
Apart from the typical fuzhuan (brick tea) in Hunan, it is common to compress dark tea into these 'sausages'; the most common weights are: 10 taels (350g), 100 taels (3.5kg) and 1000 taels (35kg).
This particular tea was mad...