Forum on the Conservation of Ancient Tea Trees
On April 9, the "2024 Nanhua Rabbit Music Ancient Tea Culture Festival" kicked off in Tujie Town, Nanhua County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the hinterland of the ancient and mysterious Ailao Mountain.
According to reports, the "2024 Nanhua Rabbit Music Ancient Tea Culture Festival" was launched in the form of a launching ceremony "Spring Xi Banquet" and an ancient tea tree protection forum, which attracted the attention of more than 20 experts and scholars in the Yunnan tea industry, more than 10 central media and provincial media.
The 2024 Tea Champion will be elected
The highlights of the "Spring Banquet" are numerous
In the morning, in the enthusiastic foot-dancing welcome dance, the "2024 Nanhua Rabbit Music Ancient Tea Culture Festival and Spring Xi Banquet" ushered in the guests. With the launching ceremony of the protection of the ancient tea tree of Rabbit Music and the inheritance of traditional tea art as the theme, the "Spring Xi Banquet" combined the customs, folk culture and resource advantages of Rabbit Street to create a tea cultural tourism feast with online and offline participation.
At the launching ceremony of the protection of the ancient tea garden in Sanjia Village, the leaders of Rabbit Street Town introduced in detail the long history of the ancient tea of Rabbit Music, and the representatives of local tea companies in Rabbit Street shared their stories with the ancient tea trees, and Chang Liping, a singer of the Yi nationality in Chuxiong, sang the original theme song of this event "Rabbit Music" on the spot, "Rabbit Music, my hometown." The dream of a thousand years of inheritance, tea is our hope, may we pass it on from generation to generation......" The creation of the song "Rabbit Music" is inspired by the worship and emotion of the Yi people who have lived on tea for generations in the deep mountains of Ailao, opening with the original ecological Yi singing tune, taking us into the secret land of Ailao with a simple voice and tasting the fragrance of tea for thousands of years. In the interlude, the primary school students of the primary school in the center of Rabbit Street recited in unison an excerpt from "Tea Fu" composed for Rabbit Music by Cao Xiaohong, honorary president of the Poetry Society of the Chuxiong Prefecture Writers Association, which echoed the lyrics of "May we pass it on from generation to generation", reflecting the importance of tea culture and tea industry to the people of Rabbit Street. The song was composed by Yang Zi and lyrics by Zhu Yuchen, integrating the style, the rhythm is bright and catchy.
At the launching ceremony of the protection of the ancient tea garden in Sanjiacun, another highlight was that Dean Wang Baijuan and Professor Gao Jun of the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University awarded special contribution awards to ten scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the healthy development of the tea industry in Tujie over the years. The bright red certificates carry the footprints and harvests of their hard work in the protection of ancient tea in Rabbit Street and the development of the tea industry.
Live performances
In addition, at the fun and ceremonial "Rabbit Music" tea fighting conference, the guests on the scene had an in-depth understanding of the "traditional tea-making skills" of Rabbit Street through the recitation of "Poetry and Tea Rhyme", ancient dance, acrobatic performances and other programs. In the end, through six rounds of tasting by the guests, the tea fighting conference selected the 2024 tea champion - A Farong of Rabbit Street Xinnong Agricultural Cooperative in Banpo Tea Factory, Yixiang Tea Co., Ltd., Xiaocun Tea Factory, Xiaogova Tea Co., Ltd., Changliangzi Cooperative and Rabbit Street Xingnong Agricultural Cooperative.
After the launching ceremony, the guests entered the ancient tea garden of Sanjia Village, where the "Tea King" of Rabbit Street is located, to observe the spring tea and experience picking.
The new quality productivity boosts the high-quality development of the Rabbit Street tea industry
On the afternoon of the 9th, the "2024 Nanhua Rabbit Music Ancient Tea Culture Festival" - "Rabbit Music" Ancient Tea Tree Protection Forum was held in the ancient tea tree community of Sanjia Village, and the theme of this forum was "Towards the "New" - New Quality Productivity Boosts the High-quality Development of the Tea Industry in Rabbit Street.
In the form of live broadcast of financial media, the forum was launched by the Yunnan Radio and Television Station Cultural Tourism Program Group and the member media units of the National Agricultural and Radio Alliance to launch a series of large-scale tea culture promotion activities of "Yunnan Spring Tea Season, Shangdaita", and introduced the ancient tea garden of Sanjiacun to the audience in the form of a real-life immersive tea garden broadcast by cultural and tourism anchors, and introduced "Rabbit Music" At the same time, through the video connection with Chen Yu, the host of China Rural Voice of China Central Radio and Television, and Yi Wen, the host of Guizhou Radio and Television Economic Broadcasting, the public has attracted the attention of the public to the tea industry and tea culture tourism in Yunnan.
Observe the spring tea
Since 2022, the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University has gone deep into Rabbit Street many times to carry out industrial science and technology services, and has established a deep friendship with the local community. In order to further deepen the cooperation between the two sides and establish and improve the cooperation mechanism, in 2023, the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University will officially set up the "Wang Baijuan Expert Grassroots Scientific Research Workstation" in Rabbit Street, which will integrate the college's scientific research, education, Talents and other resources are organically integrated with the Rabbit Street tea industry, promote the integration of production, education, research and application, rely on the Rabbit Street tea resources, develop high-quality tea products in Rabbit Street, based on the history of Rabbit Street tea, excavate the tea culture of Rabbit Street, create a special tea brand in Rabbit Street, promote the development of new productivity in the Rabbit Street tea industry, work together to promote the development of the Rabbit Street tea industry, and jointly help the revitalization of the Rabbit Street countryside with science and technology.
Since the establishment of the expert workstation, the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University has carried out a series of fruitful work in strengthening the protection of ancient tea trees in Tujie, improving the management level of tea gardens, improving tea processing technology, improving tea quality, and strengthening the training of professional and technical personnel through industrial research, technical guidance, skills training, application of scientific and technological achievements, and popularization of science and technology in view of the current situation of the development of the tea industry in Tujie Town.
In this forum, Wang Baijuan, Dean of the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University, together with Professor Gao Jun and Professor Deng Xiujuan of the Tea College of Yunnan Agricultural University, discussed the development of "Rabbit Lezhi" ancient tree tea from three dimensions.
According to reports, Tujie Town, Nanhua County, is located on the southern slope of Ailao Mountain, the core area of the ancient tea tree gathering Ailao Mountain Range, perennial temperature and humidity and rain, clouds and mist, and the high-altitude geographical environment is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. As early as the Yuan Dynasty, there was a history of tea cultivation and tea making. The existing tea garden covers an area of 24,600 acres, accounting for more than 80% of the total tea area of Nanhua County, with nearly 1,000 acres of ancient tea gardens and more than 4,140 ancient tea trees of more than 100 years, known as the "millennium tea town". Among them, the predicted age of the larger ancient tea trees in the ancient tea mountain of Sanjiacun is between 500 and 600 years.
As early as 2001, Rabbit Street was listed as a "pollution-free tea base" by Yunnan Province. However, due to its location in the mountains, it is difficult for the "good tea" of Rabbit Street to become a "famous tea". In recent years, relying on wild tea resources, Nanhua County has vigorously explored and improved tea culture and tea quality, and established a tea brand. By the end of 2022, Tujie Town has obtained 10 green food certifications, with a tea output of more than 400 tons. In 2023, the unit price of the first batch of fresh spring tea leaves will increase by 23% year-on-year, and the enthusiasm of tea farmers will be greatly improved, with an estimated output value of 25 million yuan. At present, Tujie Town is building the "Rabbit Lezhi" public brand, aiming to do a good job in the "green" public area brand, do a good job in the release of external brands, and gradually start the Nanhua tea brand. This event also invited a number of tea companies and tea merchants to visit Rabbit Street, achieve win-win cooperation, seek common development, and further promote the development of the "Rabbit Lezhi" tea brand "going global".
Special Contribution Award will be awarded
Ancient tea protects Nanhua in action
The tea industry is one of the pillar industries of Yunnan Province's economy and society, and it is also the main way for ethnic minorities to get rid of poverty and become rich. The protection of ancient tea trees is not only a scientific protection and utilization of precious natural and cultural heritage, but also an inevitable requirement for the sustainable development of plateau characteristic agriculture in Yunnan Province, which has a positive role in promoting tea economy, tea tourism leisure agriculture and rural revitalization.
In the protection of ancient tea trees, Tujie Town, Nanhua County, in addition to following the relevant requirements of the superiors, took the initiative to organize and carry out training sessions on ancient tea tree protection technology to strengthen the training and guidance of tea farmers. By restricting picking, prohibiting logging, prohibiting transplantation, etc., the ancient tea trees can be permanently protected and achieve the purpose of sustainable use. In 2021, Tujie Town will further establish and improve the protection measures for ancient tea trees, carry out the work of touching and arranging ancient tea trees in the town, investigate and file each ancient tea tree, and do a good job in the excavation, creation and publicity of "ancient tea" culture.
In the next step, Rabbit Street will continue to do a good job in the protection of ancient tea trees, so as to achieve "protection priority, scientific management, rational utilization, and orderly development." At present, the local government has written the protection of ancient tea trees into the village rules and regulations, which can better help the "Rabbit Lezhi" ancient tree tea brand go further.
If the industry is prosperous, the countryside will be prosperous, and if the countryside is prosperous, the country will be prosperous. Tea, this green leaf, is a key industry in Yunnan to build a "green food brand", and it is also an advantageous and characteristic industry in Tujie Town, and it is also a local industry that enriches the people and hopes for the people. At present, Tujie Town is relying on the long history and experience of tea planting and the good natural and ecological environment, vigorously developing pollution-free ecological tea, through the protection and rational use of ancient tea trees, so that tea has become a "magic weapon" to lead the masses out of poverty and become rich. Rabbit Street Town also hopes to talk about friendship, deepen exchanges, invest and develop through this ancient tea culture festival, and jointly promote Nanhua Rabbit Street ancient tea out of the boudoir and tea fragrance in Kyushu.
Yunnan Net reporter He Xuanying