I have known Lao Wu of Xishan in Suzhou for two years.
The people in the mountains are kind and hospitable, and every year they invite friends and a monster to visit his house.
Old Wu, named Wu Yunan, is 63 years old this year, living in Yaluli Village, Jinting Town, Xishan Mountain, and the old couple and their children and grandchildren live in a new small farm courtyard for three generations.
Lao Wu's home, 100 meters to the south is SnakeHead Mountain, 50 meters to the north is Taihu Lake, the lake is bright and mountainous, and the scenery is pleasant.
Old Wu's craft of making tea in the village is a ding, iron pot in the stir-frying tea, all by the kung fu in the hand, rubbing and kneading, not to be a little sloppy, and grasp the measure to be just right, this first batch of spring buds, after nearly half an hour of "trampling" by Old Wu, neither can be scorched, but also to stir-fry out fine fluff, it is not easy, look at a strange hand pinched out a handful of sweat.
Lao Wu said that this level of "Dongting Biluochun" should be a special grade.
A strange brewed a cup, the color green flavor is refreshing back to sweet and sweet, this is a strange first bite of this year's top "spring tea" yo! Only biluochun in the east and west mountains of Taihu Lake can be called Dongting Biluochun, which was praised by Gong Zizhen of the Qing Dynasty as "the first tea in the world".
Here a strange really want to help Lao Wu play advertising, Mingqian special "Dongting Biluochun", all handmade, only three or five pounds per day, the time is fleeting, after this hour, and have to wait for a year, the only love of Dongting Biluochun friends, it depends on whose hand is fast.
It is very difficult to give Lao Wu an accurate identity, there is a vegetable field at home, and the vegetables eaten are in their own fields, which should be farmers!
But the family has thirty acres of orchards, and every year a monster is invited to taste loquat and bayberry. Then he is a grower!
But there are thirty acres of tea mountains at home, and this time it is to invite a monster to taste spring tea. Say he's a tea farmer!
There is a boat at home, and every time it entertains a strange fish and shrimp, catch it yourself, and it is very fresh (of course, this was before last year, and now it is forbidden to catch, and it is ten years). He used to be a fisherman too!
The old Wu di stove burned out farmhouse dishes to entertain a strange
Lao Wu also has a unique job, learning tile workers at the age of fifteen, and now working as a contract foreman, specializing in contracting craftsmen who build small ancient buildings. He is also an ancient builder in Suzhou!
In this era when the green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, the family opened a small villa homestay and became a small boss.
What a complex and changeable old Wu! As the old saying goes: don't press the body!
The old Wu family's homestay
Old Wu Shiju Xishan, really blessed, native to Suzhou Xishan, this piece of fish rice lake township with tea, fruit and mountains and water!
The people here are very industrious, almost everyone has several crafts, working day and night, cherishing the resources of nature's gifts, processing and creating first-class fruits, and dedicating them to the world. Lao Wu began to stir-fry tea from the age of 15, making the same fine, his hands are becoming more and more dexterous and calm, after his hands are stir-fried, the tea leaves are particularly fragrant and refreshing.
The old Wu family house behind the Taihu Lake 200 years old camphor ancient tree
Bidding farewell to the old Wu family, looking back at Xishan, they really want to thank the good times, Xishan Island was previously an isolated island, the only way to the outside world "Taihu Bridge", opened to traffic in October 1994, with a total length of more than four kilometers.
Before this, it took four hours for ships to go to Suzhou, and it took six hours for Lao Wu to sell loquat oranges on cargo ships.
A strange today Wuxi out, about fifty kilometers by car, about an hour and a half to arrive, much more convenient.
If you go back thirty years, no matter what, you can only stay one night and be an islander for a day! Hahaha!
(February 28 diary)