The spring breeze is full of green mountains,
Tea plantations are green and tourists are looking for them. After the slow precipitation of autumn and winter, and the continuous nourishment of spring rain, the tea tree finally pulled out enough new shoots.
"Early Spring in the Tea Garden" by Wu Xinhe
Now is the season of tea picking, in the splendid spring, "tea picking tour" is favored by tourists with full cultural taste and sense of experience. Going to Spring Mountain, visiting tea gardens, and tasting spring tea have become the "new favorites" of this year's spring travel.
In recent years, Shangrao has launched a number of tea tourism integration tourism routes, so that citizens and tourists can deeply experience tea culture and open spring in the way of teawalk.
The April sun is warm and soft, and the air is filled with the faint scent of tea. Walking into the Yiyang Hongshan Tea Garden, the fragrance of tea comes to the nose.
Hongshan Tea Garden is located in the southern mountainous area of Yiyang and the remaining veins of Wuyi Mountain. The mountains here are high and dense, the canyons are deep, the perennial clouds and mist are shrouded, the air humidity is large, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the terrain is sunny, and the sunshine is short, which is conducive to the growth of tea trees and the long time of buds and leaves. The best picking season is before and after the rain and Qingming. There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in March, when the new leaves are beginning to bloom, the tea trees in the rain are fresh and lovely, and the mountains are full of verdant green.
Hongshan Tea Garden Spring Tea Picking
In ancient times, the "southern tea" represented by Hongshan tea had formed a rich tea culture such as welcome tea, hospitality tea, inviting tea, pulling tea, giving tea, sending tea, morning tea, afternoon tea, evening tea, working hour tea, etc., and became the most important lifestyle and economic source for the local people.
"Hongshan tea has three non-picking: not picking in rainy days, not picking dew leaves, and not picking when the sun is strong at noon, the purpose is to protect the fragrance and form of tea. Manual picking requires a pair of skillful hands, young leaves have one bud, one bud and one leaf, one bud and two leaves are different, and the picking process is also a selection process. "On the tea mountain, tea farmers are gently picking buds and leaves and putting them in bamboo baskets.
Shangrao has a long history of planting tea and making tea, as early as the Han Dynasty, there were monks and monks who planted tea here and gave tea to the tea city. From Tang Suzong to Deyuan (756), the tea saint Lu Yu came to Shangrao, where he built a grass house, opened a tea garden, planted tea, and tasted tea. He lived in the guest house for ten years and wrote China's first tea monograph, The Book of Tea. Shangrao, which is blessed with unique natural conditions, has also given birth to Wuyuan green tea and lead mountain river black tea.
The fragrance of tea continues, and for thousands of years, tea culture has infiltrated the life of Shangrao people, and has also created a constantly developing tea industry. According to statistics, in 2023, Shangrao tea exports will earn foreign exchange of 75 million US dollars, ranking first in the province.
During the Qingming holiday, many tourists walked into the ecological tea garden in Shangrao and started a journey of tea "research".
In the ecological tea garden of Xikeng Village, Wuyishan Town, Leadshan County, many tourists come here to experience the life of tea farmers who pick, make and taste tea at zero distance. In order to allow tourists to better experience the tea culture, the local government has also launched a tea garden adoption model, which meets the life pursuit of tourists embracing tea gardens through funding adoption, remote tracking, and tea harvesting.
Wuyishan Town, Tongzi Mountain, photo by Zhang Qin
"Walking into the tea plantation and wandering in the verdant sea of tea, it is like being in a fairyland, which makes people forget to return. Tea culture is our traditional culture, and when the weather is good, it is very interesting to experience tea picking in the tea garden. Zhang Jie, a tourist from Quzhou, Zhejiang, said that the tea picking trip can not only understand the tea culture, but also taste the freshest green tea.
"In the next step, we will also build an intangible cultural heritage tea workshop in the core production area, so that tourists can experience our tea picking, tea making and tea tasting in the whole process, so that they can more deeply feel the charm of He's black tea culture. Liao Yong, the intangible inheritor of river black tea skills, introduced.
In recent years, Leadshan County has explored a new path of "two mountains" transformation of "ecological green + Wuyi River black tea" by borrowing green to produce gold, and launched the tea research tour around Wuyi Mountain National Park selected as the 2023 National Tea Country Tourism Boutique Route, which organically integrates the resource-rich cultural and natural landscape and profound tea culture of Leadshan County, fully demonstrating the good trend of coordinated development of tea industry and tourism in Leadshan County. At the same time, the local government vigorously promotes the industrialization and branding of "River Black Tea", and promotes the green ecological rural revitalization and common prosperity road of integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism.
In recent years, in order to dig deeper into the tea culture and promote the integration of tea tourism, our city has created a number of tourism routes integrating tea tourism, such as the Wuyuan Organic Tea Garden Spring Tour, the Charming Wuyuan Taste Millennium Tea Rhyme Tour, the Tea Research Tour of Wuyi Mountain National Park, and the Spring Tour of Poyang County, so that domestic and foreign tourists can immerse themselves in tea culture, understand the history of tea, and taste the taste of tea.
The route of the spring outing research tour in Poyang County is from the Golden Tea Garden to the Qingqiu Grass Skiing Field. In the spring of the city's Golden Tea Garden, the golden tea leaves sprout, the scenery is beautiful, the air is fresh, and many tourists come to visit. Walking into the tea garden, you can experience the fun of picking golden tea leaves. Qingqiu Grass Skiing Field is laid with real grass and no urban garden hardening elements, creating a relaxed and comfortable tourism environment for tourists.
Students experience the intangible cultural heritage project of tea picking at Wuyuan Linsheng Tea House
Foreign tourists experience tea picking and tea making
In 2022, "Wuyuan Green Tea Making Technique" was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In the same year, the ecological tea town Wuyuan organic tea garden spring tour route was selected as the "Spring Outing to the Tea Garden" national tea town tourism boutique route, and the charming Wuyuan taste millennium tea rhyme tour route was selected as the "summer summer resort to the tea town" national tea town tourism boutique route.
The organic tea garden spring tour route is composed of six points: Sikou Victoria Style Manor, Kaoshui Thousand Mu Organic Tea Garden, Moon Bay, Jiangwan Scenic Area, Huangling Ancient Village, and Xiaoqi Scenic Area, the first village of Chinese tea culture, which integrates Wuyuan's rich cultural and natural landscape, characteristic homestays, organic tea gardens and profound tea culture. The charm of Wuyuan and the taste of the millennium tea rhyme tour route is composed of six points: Wuyuan Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, Sikou Zhang Village, Sikou Jinzhu Organic Tea Garden, Lingyan Cave Scenic Area, Yanshan Village, and Linsheng Organic Tea Culture Research and Tour Base, which perfectly combines Wuyuan tea culture with natural landscape and Huizhou culture, adding "green kinetic energy" to Wuyuan's all-for-one tourism, and tourists can also feel the humanistic beauty of Wuyuan, the most beautiful countryside, in tea picking and tasting. (Reporter Wang Tao)
Source: Shangrao Evening News Preliminary Review: Huang Yuyan Review: Li Qiannan Final Review: Xie Huajie Submission Email: [email protected]
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