Before the Qingming Festival, the earth warmed up, and the tea trees at this time had already emerged with tender green buds, showing vigor and ushering in an excellent time to pick tea. Due to the generally low temperature before the Qingming Festival, the number of tea tree germination is relatively rare, therefore, the precious "Ming Qian tea" has the reputation of "expensive as gold".
Xinhua News Agency Jiang Han/photo
The tea farmers in the mountain villages along the Dinglan Street grasped the agricultural time and began the picking of the first batch of tea before the Ming Dynasty this year. Xie Yongfu, an eighty-year-old tea farmer, was dressed in simple clothes, stepped on a pair of cloth shoes, tied a bamboo basket around his waist, and walked among the lush tea trees, "This year's Ming Qian tea began to be picked from March 23, and the weather is good these days, so we must hurry up and pick it." He shared with a smile on his face, "Mingqian tea is particular, and picking according to the standard is two leaves and one heart." I saw his hands skillfully flying, and pieces of tea fell into the bamboo basket like green butterflies.
Xie Yongfu's family has 1 acre of tea garden, mainly planting excellent varieties such as "China Tea 108". Since the beginning of this year, he has harvested more than 50 catties of tea, which alone has brought nearly 10,000 yuan of income to his family. Although he is old and his hands and feet are not as agile as before, he still enjoys it, "Now that I am old, I will ask someone to help pick it together, hoping to pick more." The most important thing is that we have a good environment along the mountain, there is no pollution, and the natural quality of the tea grown is good, and the taste is very good!" Xie Yongfu is even more proud of the fact that the tea making skills of the villages along the mountain are actively applying for intangible cultural heritage projects, and this unique skill carrying historical memory has given this ancient land a deeper and richer tea cultural connotation in inheritance and innovation.
It is understood that along the mountain village back to the beautiful Gaoting Mountain, the current total tea planting area of about 350 acres, the total output of spring tea (dry) is about 11,000 catties, and the sales volume is as high as 4.2 million yuan, which has effectively driven the employment of more than 100 laborers in the village, making the income of the villagers' own tea gardens easily exceed 10,000 yuan per mu.
Visual tribe Zhou Yong/photo
Not far away, there are also vast tea plantations on the mountainside of Gaoting Mountain, and every spring, the carefully planted cherry blossom trees on both sides of the scenic cycling trail bloom as promised, complementing each other with the surrounding tea gardens, attracting many tourists to take pictures and check in. The busy figures of tea farmers are embellished, and the traditional tea-picking style and modern leisure life collide and merge here, further enriching the cultural heritage and eco-tourism value of Gaoting Mountain Scenic Area.
Xinhua News Agency Jiang Han/photo
In recent years, Yanshan Village has actively responded to the development goals of agricultural efficiency, farmers' income and rural prosperity, grasped the pulse of the times, gave full play to the advantages of regional characteristics, and actively built an e-commerce live broadcast "Shangcheng Excellent Product" common wealth workshop. Through the linkage mechanism of "party building + enterprise + village collective + farmer", the operation mode of "e-commerce live broadcast + agricultural special cultural tourism" is adopted, and the harmonious symbiosis of economic benefits and ecological environment is realized. Today, the tea garden here is not only a place for tea production, but also deeply integrated with farmhouses and rural tourism, forming a complete industrial chain.
Xinhua News Agency Jiang Han/photo
At the same time, the Dinglan Street Discipline Inspection Work Committee also guided the villages along the mountain to dig deep into the "tea incorruptible" culture and build a demonstration site for clean and honest villages. Before the "May Day" festival of the Qingming Festival, the party members and cadres and enterprises in the jurisdiction issued a call for "a cup of tea to celebrate the festival", guiding everyone to supervise each other and cultivate a clean breeze.
Sit in the empty hall and reminisce, drink tea and chat to get drunk
Take advantage of the spring and the scenery to stroll and enjoy the scenery of the mountain villages
Let's taste the "Ming Qian Tea" that is "as expensive as gold".
Villages along the mountains
Dinglan Street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province