We introduced the famous Chinese tea of the four "Double World Heritage" mountains and the tea culture of the 8 World Heritage Sites. Today, we continue our tea culture tour of the World Heritage Site!
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9 Guangxi Zuojiang Huashan petroglyphs
Location: Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Date of inscription: 2016
Highlights: One of the masterpieces of world petroglyph art
Guangxi has a long history of tea production, and in the Tang Dynasty, there were Lüxian tea, Xiangzhou tea, Rongzhou bamboo tea and so on.
Black tea has: Guangxi red crushed tea. Black tea has: Cangwu Liupao Tea. Green teas include: Guiping Xishan Tea, Lingyun Baimao Tea, Qintang Maojian, Lijiang Silver Needle, Bainiu Tea, Longji Tea, Guilin Maojian, Tunba Tea, Nanshan Baimao Tea, Longshan Green Tea. Flower teas are: Hengxian jasmine tea, osmanthus tea.
Guangxi Liupao tea making technology has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and the jasmine composite cultivation system of Hengxian County, Guangxi Province has been selected as the fifth batch of Important Cultural Heritage of China.
10 Samcheongsan National Park
Location: Shangrao, Jiangxi
Date of inscription: 2008
Highlights: Taoist mountains with a history of more than 1,600 years
Tea Saint Lu Yu, who traveled all over Jiangnan all over his life, was also a Buddha, a Confucian and a chivalrous, lived for 10 years before and after Shangrao, and wrote a history of tea culture.
Shangrao, with its beautiful mountains and rivers, is "born" to be the source and distribution center of Chinese tea. As early as the Han Dynasty, there were monks who planted tea in the shape of mountains and rivers here. Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, this landscape and water, the fragrance of tea wafts around the sea, and tea friendship reaches five continents.
The tea base around Shangrao is the core production area of China's green tea golden triangle, where the landscape is beautiful and the climate is warm, which is very suitable for the growth of tea plants. Tea production is distributed in Wuyuan County, Shangrao County, Dexing City, Leadshan County, Yushan County, with wuyuan county as the "most beautiful village in China". The main tea varieties are Dayan Mountain Tea, Golden Tea, Dexing Alpine Tea, Wufeng Cloud Mist Tea, Lead Mountain Bittersweet Tea Spring Gui Kudzu Kudzu Tea, Shangrao Baimei, Lingshan Stone Tea, Golden Tea.
Jiangxi's Gannan Hakka tea making technology, Wuyuan green tea making technology was selected into the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
11 Van Jing Shan
Location: Guizhou
Date of inscription: 2018
Highlights: With 4,395 species of plants and 2,767 species of animals, it is one of the most species-rich hotspots in the eastern deciduous forest bioregion
Fanjingshan Cuifeng Tea is one of the tea varieties produced in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. It is named after the main peak of the Wuling Mountains in the county, Fanjing Mountain.
Raw materials are collected from the tea garden at an altitude of 800-1300 meters above sea level in Fanjing Mountain, and the products have the characteristics of "tender green and fresh color, uniformity and cleanliness; long-lasting fragrance, chestnut fragrance revealed; fresh and refreshing; soup color is tender and green; bud leaves are complete and tender, uniform, tender and bright", which has won the praise of industry experts and consumers. In 2005, it was approved for the protection of geographical indication products.
12 Wudang Mountain Ancient Building Complex
Location: Danjiangkou, Hubei
Inscription date: 1994
Highlights: Represents the highest level of Chinese art and architecture for nearly a thousand years
Hubei has a long history of tea production, is the main tea producing area in history, one of the three major black tea in the country "Yihong Gongfu Tea", Yangloudong's "brick tea" has long been well-known at home and abroad, and produced tea gods Shennongshi, tea Saint Lu Yu and other celebrities.
The heritage site of Danjiangkou has WudangDao tea, known as the first cultural famous tea in Hubei, produced in Baxianguan Village, Wudangshan Street, Danjiangkou City. It also includes Zhuxi County Longfeng Tea, Meizi Gong Tea, Zhushan County Holy Water Tea, Fangxian Shennong Tribute Tea.
In addition, Hubei also has flower picking Maojian, Enshi Yulu, Dabie Mountain Wudao, Yingshan Yunwu Tea, Dengcun Green Tea, Wujiataigong Tea, Baokang Pine Needle and so on.
13 Danxia, China
Location: Chishui, Guizhou, Taining, Fujian, Kunshan, Hunan, DanxiaShan, Guangdong, Longhushan, Jiangxi, Jianglangshan, Zhejiang
Date of inscription: 2010
Highlights: The landscape is ups and downs
The unique Danxia landform, rich in trace elements in the soil, such as suitable climate temperature and humidity, is a "treasure land" for growing tea. Fujian Taining is a typical representative of the Danxia landform tea area.
Taining has 10,000 acres of tea gardens and is also a tourist attraction. With the successful application for the Danxia landform, the local tea industry has also ushered in development opportunities. In the 1960s, Taining County began to introduce excellent varieties such as "Fuyun No. 6", "Huangliu", "Meizhan", "Tieguanyin" and other excellent varieties, and cultivated them in a large area. In the 1970s, Taining County put forward the idea of "if you want to be rich in the mountains, plant tea trees in the mountains", which prompted the rapid development of tea production in Taining County.
In the past ten years, Taining has vigorously developed famous teas and developed three famous tea series of rock tea, black tea and green tea, as well as Tieguanyin products.
14 Wulingyuan Scenic Area
Location: Zhangjiajie, Hunan
Date of inscription: 1992
Highlights: Ravines, gorges, streams, ponds and waterfalls
The heritage site of Zhangjiajie, producing Qingyan Mingcui, is one of the famous teas in The country, because of the surface rock produced in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and the name of The Famous Chinese and Foreign, so it is named Qingyan Mingcui. The shape is beautiful, the cords are tightly knotted, round and curved, the white hairs are exposed, and the color is emerald green. Judging from the meat quality, the fragrance is rich and the taste is mellow and sweet. After flushing, the soup color is green and bright, the leaf bottom is even, and you feel refreshed after drinking. People come to Wulingyuan to visit, with the water of Golden Whip Creek and Mandarin Duck Spring, brew a cup of "Qingyan Mingcui" tea, the charm is endless.
With the development of tourism in Hunan Province, Hunan tea culture is being understood by more and more people. Hunan is one of the birthplaces of Chinese tea culture, and occupies an extremely important position in the history of Chinese tea culture in the past and present. Black tea in Hunan Province plays an important role in China's tea economy and ethnic unity. The technique of making Qianliang Tea has also been included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
15 Silk Road "Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Road Network"
Location: Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang
Date of inscription: 2014
Highlights: The world's longest cultural heritage route
Since the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road began, produced in China's oriental silk, so that Europeans love crazy. For thousands of years, with the silk trade as a link, Eastern and Western civilizations blended together in Central Asia. Later, tea culture arose, and tea came to the Silk Road as a bulk commodity, and was introduced to West Asia and even Europe through winding land routes and turquoise sea routes. Chinese tea is one of the most important roles on the Silk Road and plays an important role, so the Silk Road is also a "tea road".
16 Grand Canal
Location: Flows through 2 municipalities directly under the central government, 6 provinces, 25 prefecture-level cities
Highlights: The world's oldest, longest-used, and largest span of artificial canals.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has a deep relationship with tea. The cities along the banks of the river contain the profound connotation of tea culture, and the canal water flows out of the strong tea wind.
Tea culture originated in the southern region, before the Tang Dynasty, the wind of tea drinking in North China was not popular, and the Tang Dynasty pointed out: "Southerners drink (tea), and northerners don't drink much at first." Due to geographical environmental factors, North China is not suitable for tea production, which determines that tea in North China must be supplied by the south, and the South Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other Jiangnan areas in the south of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (referred to as the Grand Canal) are famous tea-producing areas, jiangxi, western Anhui, southern Anhui, Fujian and other tea areas are not far from the Grand Canal, relative to land transport, the Grand Canal has the advantages of large transportation volume and low freight. Therefore, the Grand Canal has played a key role in the construction of tea markets in the northern region and the spread of tea culture.
The southern tea guests on the Grand Canal brought tea culture, and the tea drinking custom gradually spread from the coastal towns to the neighboring areas. The custom of drinking tea has gradually penetrated into all corners of society and has influenced it to this day.
Source: Tea Ceremony Media