Overlooking a corner of Anhua Black Tea Town.
——Anhua black tea characteristic town
Anhua Black Tea Town is a large-scale development project of tea tourism and culture trinity, with a total investment of 10 billion yuan, planned and constructed by the People's Government of Anhua County and operated by Hunan Hualai Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
Anhua Black Tea Characteristic Town Project takes the Zijiang River as the axis, covers the Zijiang waters between Dongping Hydropower Station and Zhuxikou Hydropower Station and the area along both sides of the river, with a territory of 19.2 square kilometers, including "One River, Four Districts, Ten Mile Gallery", that is, the Binjiang Area of The County South District, which is pleasant and livable and businessable, the Huangshaping and Youzhou Areas that inherit the thick black tea culture, the Chaxi Area where the landscape leisure and tea medicine are healthy, and the Bandung Area that develops and innovates the black tea industry.
The construction of Anhua black tea characteristic town highlights the theme of "Anhua black tea" and strives to create a first-class characteristic town of "tea tourism integration and industry city integration". The project was launched in 2017 and construction is progressing rapidly. After the project is fully completed, it will become a demonstration area for black tea research and development and innovation, an ornamental area for tea garden scenery, a distribution area for black tea trading, an experience area for black tea culture, a leisure area for water entertainment, a resort area for health and fitness, a golden area for global tourism, and truly become a distinctive landscape town and a world-class sightseeing tourism destination.
Yunkai Nippori.
——Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area
Yuntai Mountain is a must-visit for tea and tourism guests from other places in Anhua. Yuntai Mountain is located in Malu Town, Anhua County, with a maximum altitude of 998. 17 meters, the summit is a 9 square kilometers of exquisite basin, with the "high mountain platform" and "high mountain plain" reputation, here beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, like a "paradise".
Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area is invested and developed by Hunan Yuntai Mountain Tea Tourism Group, the scenic spot has seven major resource carriers of "mountain, water, cave, tea, Dao, cloud and literature", has a history of nearly a thousand years of zhenwu ancient temple, has been rated as "China's most beautiful tea garden" on the cloud tea garden, has "Changbao first cave day" Longquan Cave, in the Shenxian Rock Scenic Area, Longteng Bay Scenic Area has a variety of landscape and play facilities. There are a large number of strange stone forests, unfathomable sinkholes in the scenic area, cliffs, seas of clouds and other natural landscapes everywhere. The beautiful natural environment is integrated with the unique tea culture, Taoist culture, health culture and Meishan culture of the scenic spot, forming a unique and rich tea tourism artistic conception, so that tourists can obtain the common baptism of body and mind.
Anhua Yuntai Mountain Tea Garden.
Yuntai Mountain has been famous for tea since ancient times and is the birthplace of Yuntai large-leaf species, one of the 21 national excellent tea plant varieties. The average annual temperature here is 16 °C-28 °C, the average annual rainfall is 1668 mm, and the frost-free period is 288 days. Due to the special geographical environment and climatic characteristics, the unique geological soil is the most suitable for the growth of tea plants. Known as the "Chinese Ecological Civilization Tea Garden" and "the most beautiful ecological tea garden", the Yuntai ShanCha Brigade Group Yunshang Tea Garden is laid out on the vast sea of clouds at an altitude of more than 800 meters, sucking in the mist dew, emitting fragrance and beauty. The "most beautiful tea ceremony" is built on the ridge of the mountain, with a beautiful sea of clouds on one side and a charming tea garden on the other. The yunshang tea garden lays two 100M optical fibers, installs 285 cameras, and sets up 54 Wi-Fi base stations to achieve monitoring coverage of the tea garden base, the mountain ring road, the production and packaging workshop, and the warehouse. Head to the Cloud Experience Center to watch an authentic Kung Fu tea show and taste authentic Anhua black tea.
Yuntai Mountain is majestic and spectacular, with nearly 200 days to watch throughout the year. Standing on the top of the mountain, the white clouds are like a vast ocean, the waves are undulating, rolling up thousands of piles of snow, the momentum is magnificent, and the scene is quite spectacular. Different seasons, different locations, different realms.
Take the ropeway to the Zhenwu Ancient Temple at the top of Yuntai Mountain, where you can ring the ancient bell in the temple and pray for the blessing of your family.
True Martial Arts.
In the scenic spots of Yuntai Mountain, such as Shenxian Rock and Haohan Bay, there are sculptures of figures from traditional Chinese stories. Here are the Cowherd Weaver Girl Queqiao Society, the White Lady Xu Xian Dou Fahai, the Houyi Chang'e, the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, the Tang Monks and Apprentices Xi Tian Taking the Scriptures, the Wenqu Xingxia Fan, Lao Tzu Out of the Customs, and the Water Margin One Hundred and Eight Good Men... The character image is exquisite, and the trance is like a fairy world, traveling through time and space. Strolling through the scenic spots can be described as one step at a time, one scene and one story, which can be called a perfect combination of natural landscapes and cultural landscapes. Bring your family and children when you play, while harvesting happiness, you can also harvest and improve in many aspects such as traditional Chinese culture, astronomical geography and historical knowledge.
In yuntai mountain bullfighting performing arts square, you can watch the bullfighting and bull separation activities with strong Meishan folk characteristics, and at the International Horse Theater, there are wonderful circus performances brought by German equestrians. Visitors can experience local cuisine and wooden houses in Longtengwan Folk Village, sip tea at the aircraft tea restaurant converted from Boeing 737 aircraft, stroll on sightseeing boardwalks, glass suspension bridges... In Longquandong Cultural Square, there are a variety of activities carefully created for tourists to play in The Anhua Grand Theater and the Road Grand Theater, and there are various dances, tai chi and other programs performed by tourists and friends.
Here, tourism is no longer just tourism, but a deep experience of the senses and body and mind. Whether you come or not, in Yuntai Mountain, there is a beautiful scenery that belongs to you, a vein of tea, a piece of sky and clouds.
Tea Village Flower Sea Ecological Experience Park, a good place for health care, leisure and entertainment, and experience vacation.
——Tea Village Flower Sea Ecological Experience Park
Tea Village Flower Sea is a tea tourism integration theme park carefully built with the beautiful green mountains and green waters of Anhua as the background, relying on the unique Anhua black tea culture and Meishan culture. It is a good place for people to be healthy, leisure and entertainment, and experience vacation.
"Tea Township Flower Sea" is located in the eastern suburbs of Anhua County, covering an area of 2500 acres, composed of 98 small hills based on tea, flowers as the focus, precious tree species, including 6 large areas, namely spring, summer, autumn and winter four seasonal theme gardens and "green field lost" and "colorful welcome" two leisure areas. In the park, the tea has green, white, yellow and purple, the flowers are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there are more than 1,000 kinds of animals and plants. There are 5.1 kilometers of ring roads, more than 30 kilometers of sidewalks, and more than 100 large and small landscapes in the park. Among them, the glass Tianhe rafting slide and glass boardwalk are more than 1500 meters long, novel and unique, thrilling, "Tianhe Rafting" and 11 cliff hotels are currently the first domestic landscape. There are gardens in the scenic area, jingzhong garden, art tea garden, bamboo garden, hundred grass garden, children's paradise, sunshine and sand beach, vacation center, farming culture village and other scenic spots have their own characteristics, with spring, summer, autumn and winter named in the special garden planting peach blossoms, plum blossoms, pear blossoms, rhododendrons, begonias, ziwei, cherry blossoms, roses, lotuses, camellias, chrysanthemums and other types of flowers, the group is gorgeous, beautiful.
Anhua Black Tea Museum.
--Other scenic spots
Anhua is home to the Xuefeng Lake National Geopark. Xuefeng lake national geopark is located in the west of Anhua County, with a total area of 175.8km², is a stratigraphic profile, tectonic traces and karst landform landscape, both water landscape, clastic rock landscape, structural landform landscape and other types of geological relics, set ecological protection, tourism, scientific research, science education, vacation and leisure as one of the large-scale comprehensive national geopark, including Yuntai Mountain Park, Xuefeng Lake Park and Jiulongchi Park three major geological parks. Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area and the famous Liubuxi Primitive Secondary Forest are located in the Yuntai Mountain Park, the picturesque Zhexi Reservoir Area is located in the Xuefeng Lake Park, and the Jiulong Pond, the first peak in Central Hunan Province, is located in the Jiulongchi Park.
The China Black Tea Museum is the only official black tea museum in China. Located in Anhua Huangshaping Ancient Tea City, it is an imitation of the classical style of the Qing Dynasty, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and antique. The museum covers an area of about 10 acres, with a construction area of 6250 square meters. The main building and the basement are 10 floors, the podium is two floors, using the traditional Chinese pavilion architectural style, reasonable design, exquisite craftsmanship, magnificent shape, unique scenery, is a landmark building that integrates collection and sightseeing tourism. The Name of the China Black Tea Museum was inscribed by Li Tieying, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and has been open to the public free of charge since October 22, 2015.
For thousands of years, countless horse gangs have walked silently on the Tea Horse Ancient Road.
Huangshaping Ancient Tea City was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, has a history of more than 900 years, is the earliest distribution center of Anhua black tea, the origin of the Southern Tea Horse Ancient Road. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, hundreds of merchant houses and tens of thousands of people gathered here, and almost all the big tea houses in the country had branches here. Since 2011, the ancient tea city has been rebuilt according to the national 5A level tourist scenic spot standards.
Tea Horse Ancient Road Scenic Area is located in Jiangnan Town, Anhua County, 120 kilometers from Yiyang City. Located in the Middle of The Tuoxi National Forest Park and the intersection of the Big Bear Mountain National Forest, it is known for its original birthplace of Meishan culture and the last horse gang in the south, as well as the most complete remains of the Tea Horse Ancient Road, historical culture, which preserves the original alpine residential scenery and canyon scenery, far from the hustle and bustle, beautiful and unique, so it is called "the city of mountains, the legacy of tea horses". Dongshi Old Street and Yongxi Bridge are important attractions in the Tea Horse Ancient Road Scenic Area, and Yongxi Bridge is the largest and best-preserved Qing Dynasty wooden structure wind and rain corridor bridge in Anhua.
Tao Shu Cemetery is located in Tao Shu Village, Xiaoyan Town, Anhua County, and is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. The mausoleum covers an area of 7,560 square meters and was built by the Qing court, and Zuo Zongtang personally participated in the planning and supervision of the cemetery. After 170 years of wind and rain, some of the cultural relics were destroyed, but most of the cultural relics such as archways, stone men and stone beasts, tombs, halls and cemetery walls have been preserved intact and repaired in the 21st century.
Tangjiaguan Ancient Street was founded in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and reached its peak in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, when it was 475 meters long and had more than 100 shops.
A corner of Meishan Cultural Park.
China Meishan Cultural Park is located in Shankou Village, Xianxi Town, Anhua County, covering an area of 2,800 acres, with 52 perfect scenic spots, including Wanjia Compound, Meishan Culture Museum, Meishan Culture and Art Village, Wind and Rain Corridor Bridge, JingpaiLou, Reservoir Dam, Farming Expo Park, Black Tea Craft Workshop, Stilt House Group, Meishan Hunting God Statue, etc. The park has complete facilities, including 3 large and small restaurants, which can accommodate about 800 people at the same time. There are modern hotel buildings and antique stilt buildings in the accommodation area, a total of 188 rooms, the room supporting facilities.
Located in Xuanyou Village, Le'an Town, Anhua County, Xuanyou Hometown attracts tourists from all walks of life with its rich Ruins of Xuanyou, ancient worship of Xuanyou, rare folk customs, and exciting Spirit of Xuanyou. Xuan You was the leader of the Jiuli tribe in the ancient times, and together with the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, he was the "Three Ancestors of Chinese Humanities", and was known for his courage and good war. Xuanyou's hometown is located in the village of Xuanyou (Anhua dialect calls the mountain "jie"), the Xuanyou boundary is 20 kilometers longitudinal, more than 800 meters above sea level, is the place where Han, Miao and Yao have lived in the past. There are many stones on the boundary, the forest is dense and the water is strange, the cave is quiet, and the remains of the clams are all over the place.
This article is excerpted from "One Hour to Read Anhua Black Tea", edited by Anhua Black Tea Magazine, edited by Jiang Yuedeng and Li Puyun. Synthesized by the RedNet Anhua Black Tea Channel.