At the second National Skills Competition, Hunan contestant Yang Qing used tea as the carrier to present a self-created tea art display called "Yuelu Rong Song Through Ancient and Modern Times", which surprised four people. She won the gold in the six modules of tea art in the selected event of the national competition. This is also the first time that the skilled players selected by Hunan private enterprises have won medals in the national competition.
The moment the results were announced, Yang Qing turned around and hugged coach Zhu Haiyan and cried silently, more than 1,000 days and nights of dedication and perseverance, at this moment, turned into tears.
In Hunan's first tea provincial skill master studio - Zhu Haiyan Master Studio, the ancient strings are melodious and the tea fragrance is full of houses, Yang Qing's master and apprentice tell the story behind the gold medal.
"Not a lot, not a lot"
Compared with the excitement when the results were announced, Yang Qing said that he was "relaxed and comfortable" on the field. What is unknown is how much Yang Qinghe and the team have paid behind this calm and calm.
The tea art competition is divided into six modules, including prescribed tea art, self-created tea art, tea soup quality competition, tea art quality evaluation, tea ordering and theoretical oral examination, which comprehensively considers the comprehensive abilities of the contestants. Among them, self-created tea art is a tea art competition form that integrates on-site commentary and demonstration with the purpose of brewing a cup of tea soup and presenting the beauty of tea art, examining the tea artist's overall understanding of the theme, tea ceremony, background, brewing process and music, and integrating on-site commentary and demonstration.
In order to interpret "Yuelu Rong Song Through Ancient and Modern Times", Yang Qing has traveled to Yuelu Mountain in Changsha more than 20 times, visiting all relevant historical and cultural teachers and experts, and condensing the Huxiang spirit of "inclusiveness, application by the world, preaching and benefiting the people" and the reminiscence of past saints and sages in the tea art display.
The word "Rong" in the title is also very particular about it, and it was not until 1 month before the game that the team finalized it. Yang Qing explained: "Rong, that is, the ancient and modern learning style, and the modern tea style, also fits the essence of our brewing a cup of cultured tea. To this end, Yang Qing's teacher also specially prepared Yuelu Mountain red maple as an embellishment, this "maple" means "learning style, tea style".
In the 13-minute deduction, in order to ensure that every artifact is just right and every explanation is tightly knit, Yang Qing has practiced countless times, and the pronunciation and pause of each word are accurate to the second; Repeatedly deliberated on the details of actions such as one take and one mention, one smile and so on, and truly achieved "one is not much, one piece is less." ”
"Love engraved in the bones"
Living under Yuelu Mountain since he was a child, the picture of his ancestors going up the mountain to reclaim tea gardens has always been rooted in Yang Qing's heart.
When he was 7 years old, his father took Yang Qing's hand and walked into Yuelu Academy for the first time. Seeing that someone was arguing academically, the young Yang Qing asked anxiously: "They seem to have quarreled, what should I do?" The father joked: "Just have a cup of tea." ”
After that, whenever there was a conflict between his friends, Yang Qing would grab a handful of tea leaves and throw them into the tea pot, brew hot water, and seriously hand them over: "Don't make trouble, just drink a cup of tea." Everyone was amused. This scene was also put into Yang Qing's affectionate interpretation in "Yuelu Rong Song Through Ancient and Modern". She said: "For tea culture, it is a love engraved in the bones. ”
After graduating from university, limited by his attachment to tea, Yang Qing resolutely gave up his stable job in a state-owned enterprise and began to "accompany tea" and make a living on tea. The accumulation and experience of life made her determined to learn tea art from a teacher. After unremitting efforts, she finally joined Zhu Haiyan, a professor at Hunan Agricultural University and vice chairman of the Tea Art Professional Committee of the China Tea Society, and began to pass the hurdles and climb to the top of the tea art national competition. In the past three years, Yang Qing has evaluated hundreds of tea products from all over the world, experienced thousands of brewing trainings to pick up and put down, and has accumulated 20 notebooks that record various data of each exercise.
Along the way, Yang Qing always remembered Master's words: "Winning medals is not the goal, but to devote your whole life to spreading tea culture." ”
"Incubate" talents with talents
Yang Qing's Zhu Haiyan Master Studio was established in 2022 and has gathered more than 30 outstanding tea industry skilled talents from Changsha, Changde, Yiyang, Yongzhou and other places. Under the guidance and support of the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the studio has become an important platform and "cradle" for our province to play a leading role in high-skilled leading talents, "incubate" talents with talents, and continue to cultivate the backbone of tea industry skills.
At present, Yang Qing is already a national second-level tea technician, a national senior tea judge, a member of the seventh tea art teacher class of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and one of the "incubation" achievements of high-skilled talents in Master Zhu Haiyan's studio.
In fact, the tea industry is a traditional advantageous industry in Hunan, with a complete range of categories, and has the reputation of "three Xiang, four water and five color tea". As of 2021, the tea garden area of the province has reached 3.38 million mu, the output is 322,800 tons, the comprehensive output value of the tea industry has exceeded the 100 billion mark, and the Xiang tea industry has become a pillar industry of Hunan's agricultural and rural economy and an industry that enriches the people.
In the view of teacher Zhu Haiyan, Yang Qing's victory this time for tea talents, "illuminates more possibilities in the future of the tea industry". In the next step, the studio will continue to improve the cultivation method of high-skilled tea talents, so that generations of Huxiang tea people can take up the mission of spreading tea culture and teaching tea skills, and promote "this cup of tea" with Huxiang heritage to go abroad and go to the world. (Source: Hunan Renshe)