On May 17, the three-day 2024 "Chinese Dream Labor Beauty" Employee Vocational Skills Competition and the 2024 Qiandongnan Prefecture "Yunshang Danzhai Yun Selenium Tea Cup" Handmade Tea Skills Competition ended successfully in Wanda Town, Danzhai County, and 84 tea-making experts from 14 teams across the state met friends, competed on the same stage, and competed with tea.
The competition is sponsored by the Qiandongnan Prefecture Federation of Trade Unions and the Qiandongnan Prefecture Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, with the theme of "Contributing to the 14th Five-Year Plan and Striving for a New Journey", with three individual competitions: handmade flat green tea, handmade curly green tea and handmade black tea, aiming to further promote the spirit of model workers, labor spirit and craftsman spirit, expand the scale of tea, improve the quality of tea, strengthen the tea brand, inherit tea skills, promote tea culture, cultivate tea craftsmen, promote the high-quality development of the tea industry in the state, effectively consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, and fully promote rural revitalization.
Stir-frying, rolling, fermenting...... At the scene of the competition, with the whistle sounding, the contestants were gearing up and non-stop to devote themselves to all aspects of handmade tea, each process was skillfully operated, every technical essentials were properly grasped, and every action was full of their dedication and love for traditional tea-making skills.
Contestants prepare to make tea (photo by Wu Changchun)
"I came to participate in the competition to learn from more masters." Shi Weiyong, a Liping player who participated in the competition in Danzhai for the first time, said, "Although I have been making black tea for several years, I am still quite stressful, no matter what the result is, as long as I have confidence, I will definitely do a good job of black tea." ”
During the period, as a pot of fragrant tea was freshly baked, the fragrance of tea was overflowing, attracting the audience to stop and watch, comment and like. In accordance with the standards of GB/T23776-2018, GB/T14487-2017 and GB/T8304-2013, the expert judges will strictly evaluate the shape, color, aroma, soup color and other aspects of the tea, and select each award of the 3 major categories according to the comprehensive score, including 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes and 4 winning prizes in the handmade flat green tea competition; The handmade curly green tea and handmade straight black tea competitions were respectively 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes, and 5 winning prizes.
Contestants make tea carefully (photo by Shi Weiyong)
In the end, Zhang Heng from Leishan Yunjian Tea Industry Co., Ltd., Long Jintao from Leishan County Jiaoyao Tea Industry Co., Ltd., and Zhang Xiangqin from Guizhou Jindi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. from Taijiang County stood out among many contestants and won the first prize of handmade flat green tea, handmade curly green tea and handmade black tea.
"I didn't expect to win the first prize, which is also a recognition of my dedication to tea development for so many years." Zhang Heng, a contestant from Leishan Yunjian Tea Industry Co., Ltd., said that through the competition, he learned and exchanged with tea experts from all over the world, and knew the advantages and characteristics of Danzhai tea and tea in southeast Guizhou, and achieved the purpose of learning from each other.
Contestants make tea carefully (photo by Shi Weiyong)
It is understood that in this competition, in addition to awarding certificates and bonuses, the winners who won the first place in each competition will declare the title of "May Day Labor Medal of Qiandongnan Prefecture" to the Qiandongnan Prefecture Federation of Trade Unions according to the procedures. Contestants who have won the Excellence Award or above, and meet the relevant conditions, will be awarded the fourth-level vocational skill level certificate of tea refining workers, and the third-level or above contestants who have obtained the fourth-level vocational skill level certificate of tea refining workers will be awarded the third-level vocational skill level certificate of tea refining workers.
"The award-winning works of this competition, whether it is from the shape, shape, proportion, score is very high, and the average level gap is not large, from this competition, it can be seen that the level of tea making in the entire southeast of Guizhou is improving, especially the variety of black tea, which is more suitable for our domestic market and foreign markets." Liu Xiaohua, a national first-class tea evaluator, said.
In recent years, Qiandongnan Prefecture has closely focused on the relevant decision-making and deployment of the superiors, regarded the tea industry as an important pillar industry to enrich the people and rejuvenate the state, committed to the cultivation of industrial talents and the cultivation of technical talents, and held a skill competition with tea planting, tea picking and tea making as the main content, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of tea people, improve their skill level, provide solid talent support for the development of the tea industry, and help the high-quality development of the tea industry in the state.
"The competition is not only a competition of skills, showing the unique charm of handmade tea, but also the inheritance and promotion of traditional tea-making technology, which stimulates people's strong interest in tea culture." The relevant person in charge of the Qiandongnan Prefecture Federation of Trade Unions said that the successful holding of the competition not only provided a platform for exchanges and learning for the development of the tea-making industry, but also promoted the improvement of the overall level of the industry, and further enhanced the popularity and influence of the public brand of "Miao Dong Shanzhen" Qiandongnan tea, and made a positive contribution to the new future of the splendid southeast Guizhou with economic prosperity, people's wealth and ecological beauty.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Shi Hankai
Edited by Chen Huayong
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