Awards ceremony
The first "Guanyin Tieyun Return of the King" Cup Autumn Anxi Tieguanyin Tea King Competition Award Ceremony was held at the 2021 China (Guangzhou) International Tea Industry Expo Tea Expo. As one of the supporting activities of the 2021 China (Guangzhou) International Tea Industry Expo (referred to as Guangzhou Tea Expo) and the press conference of the 22nd Guangzhou International Tea Culture Festival, it has become a highlight of this Guangzhou Tea Expo. The tea king competition lasted for one month, and 1 person was awarded as a fragrant type, a strong fragrance type, a first and second class, a number of third prizes and quality awards, and a single prize of the event reached 120,000 yuan, with a total prize of up to 478,000 yuan. Yang Zhiying, former director of the Ethnic and Religious Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association, Chen Shaohe, former deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce and vice president of the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association, and Hong Tianyang, deputy governor of the Anxi County People's Government of Fujian Province, attended the event and presented awards to the winners.
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The Tea King Competition is jointly sponsored by the China Tea Circulation Association, the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association, the Fujian Tea Industry Research Association, and the Anxi County People's Government, and co-organized by the Office of the Anxi County Tea Industry Management Committee, the Anxi County Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Anxi County Federation of Trade Unions, the Xianghua Township People's Government, and the Anxi County Suquan Tea Research Institute in Fujian Province. More than 200 business associations and enterprises across the country jointly co-organized. The activity aims to continue to promote the inheritance and development of Anxi Tieguanyin production skills, guide the majority of tea farmers to carry out tea planting, production and processing in accordance with the national standard of "Geographical Indication Anxi Tieguanyin", strive for excellence and make tea, comprehensively strengthen the publicity and promotion of Anxi Tieguanyin, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the Anxi tea industry.
Guangzhou Tea Expo Anxi Pavilion tea friends are endless
Generous awards boost the industry
It is understood that the total prize money of the Tea King Competition is as high as 478,000 yuan, the event is divided into two schedules of fragrant Anxi Tieguanyin and Fragrant Anxi Tieguanyin, respectively, 1 special prize and 1 first and second prizes, several third prizes and quality awards, the highest prize of a single item is 120,000 yuan, and the winners of different awards are awarded the honorary titles of county-level "May Day Labor Medal" and county-level "Assistant Engineer of Tea Processing", which is the most influential and authoritative tea activity event in Anxi tea category in 2021. After careful evaluation by the expert judges, Xiao Peihe won the special prize of the fragrant Tieguanyin, and an Anxi Tianxiang Soul Tea Professional Cooperative and Zhan Fulai won the first and second prizes of the fragrant Tieguanyin respectively; Wu Qingjun of Fujian Guoxin Tea Management Co., Ltd. successfully won the special prize of the fragrant Tieguanyin, and Liu Shuiyan and Li Chengquan of Changyiquan Tea Industry won the first and second prizes of the fragrant Tieguanyin respectively.
Bravely stand at the head of the tide "tea" to promote the world
Yang Zhiying, former director of the Ethnic and Religious Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association, pointed out in his speech: China is the hometown of tea, and at present, the Bay Area is the most active region in the world today's economic development, and it is also one of the most active tea trade and one of the regions with the longest history of tea culture in the world. Guangzhou is an important part of the Greater Bay Area, playing a pivotal role in the history of tea development and occupying an important position in China's overseas trade for hundreds of years. As a member of the tea people, we should work together to build a global tea product marketing promotion platform, promote the effective connection of production, circulation and consumption, let China's good tea go to the world, and let the world's good tea enter China.
Yang Zhiying, vice president of the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association, delivered a speech
Anxi County has been more than a thousand years, the earliest tea production began in the late Tang Dynasty, developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, flourished in the contemporary, the county has 600,000 acres of tea gardens, 65,000 tons of output, 190 million tea output value, ranking first in the national key tea producing counties for 10 consecutive years. Anxi is a hot land that thrives on tea and flourishes because of tea, with Anxi tea leaves, Anxi has leapt from the largest national poverty county in Fujian to the 60th among the top 100 counties in the country, and millions of people in Anxi have become well-off because of tea. In the interview, Hong Tianyang, deputy governor of the People's Government of Anxi County, Fujian Province, said: Anxi is the hometown of China's oolong tea, the birthplace of the world's famous tea Tieguanyin, Anxi is a hot land that thrives on tea and flourishes because of tea, with Anxi tea, Anxi jumped from the largest national poverty county in Fujian to the 57th place in the national top 100 counties in 2021, the 18th place in the top 100 in the country with investment potential, and the million people of Anxi have become well-off because of tea. Tea is connected to thousands of tea farmers at one end and hundreds of millions of consumers at the other, which is an industry that seeks benefits for tea farmers and benefits drinkers. Today, we use a cup of origin, original ecology, healthier and safer Anxi good tea to present to everyone, thank you for the long-term respect and love of Yangcheng consumers for Anxi Tieguanyin! And sincerely invite the majority of tea people and friends to enter Anxi to investigate and guide, taste tea and sightseeing!
Hong Tianyang, deputy governor of Anxi County People's Government, delivered a speech
Pass on the skills of Isai to attract talents
Under the accumulation and optimization of Anxi tea farmers' long-term tea making practice, after 300 years of inheritance, a piece of tea has undergone sun-dried green, cool green, shaking green, killing green, kneading, first baking, kneading, re-baking, re-kneading, drying... 10 traditional processes, 36 hours of continuous production, creating an Anxi Tieguanyin traditional production skills of rigor and subtlety, but also make Anxi Tieguanyin with the freshness of green tea, the sweetness of black tea, the fragrance of flowers and fruits, the charm is unique. Xiao Peihe, the winner of the special prize of the fragrant Anxi Tieguanyin in the interview, said that in addition to mastering the traditional tea making techniques and heat, xiao Peihe, the winner of the fragrant Anxi Tieguanyin Grand Prize, cannot ignore many elements such as the altitude and climate of the tea production area and the management of the tea garden, because good tea needs good texture.
In recent years, the fragrant Tieguanyin has become more and more sought after by the market, and there is also a cognitive misunderstanding that the fragrant type is "baking to make up for the lack of production technology". Wu Qingjun of Fujian Guoxin Tea Garden Management Co., Ltd., the winner of the special prize of the fragrant Tieguanyin, said that the fragrant type is more stringent in the selection of materials. In the traditional production process, we generally choose tea production area materials at an altitude of 800-1000 meters, and at the same time, in the shaking process, we need to choose moderately fermented tea green, which shows that the fragrant tea leaves are different from the original material selection and production.
Leadership viewing
Grasp the source to promote take-off
Anxi has ranked first among the key tea-producing counties in China for 10 consecutive years, and has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Counties (Cities) with Brand Influence in China's Tea Industry in 2018" and "China's Top Ten Tea Regional Public Brands". Anxi Tieguanyin Tea Culture System, with the traditional Tieguanyin variety breeding, planting cultivation, production technology and tea culture as the core agricultural production system, was identified as the second batch of "China's Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage" in 2014, selected as China's Globally Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage Preparatory List in 2019, and selected as a candidate project for globally important agricultural cultural heritage of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 2020. In recent years, the Anxi County Party Committee and County Government have continuously increased their efforts to promote the basic management of tea gardens and the ecological restoration of tea mountains, pioneered the "mountain chief system", and implemented the global ecology from the three levels of county ecology, tea garden small ecology and soil micro-ecology; and established the country's first tea ecological hospital with the Tea College of Agriculture and Forestry University to guide the implementation of a series of measures such as soil restoration and improvement of tea gardens, soil testing and formula fertilization in tea gardens, comprehensive ecological management of tea gardens, green prevention and control of tea plant diseases and insect pests, and construction of efficient ecological tea gardens. Chen Suquan, director of the Suquan Tea Research Institute in Anxi County, Fujian Province, said that the purpose of the Tea King Competition is to awaken more tea people to "make good tea must be grasped from the source" and "skill inheritance" to be integrated in an orderly manner. This tea king competition not only allows us to discover the awareness of ecological protection and restoration of the whole people; from the age, we are pleased to find that Anxi maintains a seamless docking trend in the inheritance of tea production skills and the cultivation of talents, such as Xiao Peihe, the winner of the post-90s fragrance type special prize, and Wu Qingjun, the winner of the 78-year fragrant special prize, which is a good example.
Some of the winners at the award ceremony took a group photo with the leaders present