Folk tales of the legend of Jietan tea

In Hunan Yuanling Beirong Township there is a big mountain named Jietan Mountain, Jietan Mountain is located in the northeast of the county seat fifty kilometers northeast of the Yuanshui River, here the peaks are quite beautiful, the forest is green, heavy clouds and fog, the rapid Yuanshui stirs up layers of waves at the beach, after being atomized by the river wind, it floats around, so that Jietan Mountain is shrouded in clouds all year round. Alpine clouds produce good tea, and the well-known Jietan tea at home and abroad is produced here.

Legend has it that a long time ago, on the banks of the Yuanshui River in the north, there lived a father and daughter, the father was sixty and eight, and his body was tough. The daughter is eighteen years old and looks handsome. Because this baby girl was picked up by the river beach when dad was fifty years old, people called this baby girl "Sister Picker".

Dad spent his life ferrying at the Yuanshui Riverside Wharf for a living, because there was no tea at home, he could only fry rice when he was thirsty, and then use boiling water to flush the "paste rice tea" and drink it. The sensible sister often thought, "If there is a cup of fragrant tea that can help Grandpa quench his thirst, how good it would be!" ”

One night, in her sleep, she came to the hillside by the river, and after climbing to the top of the mountain, she found that there was a flat on the mountain, and there were some tea trees that resembled bamboo and grass in the plain. In the green canopy, there were a few girls dressed in red and green who laughed and laughed, and picked tea leaves in a shuttle. The sister was about to go forward to give a gift, ask for a detailed look, only to see a cloud of smoke drifting by, the girls disappeared without a trace, and a silver teapot was left on the tea tree...

After waking up from the dream, the sister was surprised to find that there was the silver teapot resting on the pillow. The next morning, the sister was suspicious and confused, carrying a basket and carrying a basket on her back, curiously following the dream mood, going up the mountain from the riverbank to find the girls from last night. She climbed up the hill with thorns and thorns, and there was no sign of the girls. There was no way out, when suddenly, a white rabbit sprang out of the thorn canopy, and the sister chased after the white rabbit. Running and running, in the blink of an eye, the white rabbit drilled into a cave, she also followed in, out of the cave, she was suddenly confused, the white rabbit was gone, only the clouds were floating in front of her eyes. Bending down to look closely, I found that I had reached the plain of my dreams, a small green tea tree, with a tender tip, stretching out the fine leaves, as if to greet her, she was happy to pick up one by one...

The basket and the back basket are full, the sister laughed and sang the mountain song back home, after roasting, the tea was made, the sister made a cup of tea for The Father, suddenly full of incense, the Father took a sip, clapped his hands, and even praised it. The sister kept picking tea leaves from the mountain for Grandpa and the villagers to drink. When the villagers and passing guests drank the tea made by the sister, they all praised it. The sister also often took the poor villagers to the mountain to pick tea leaves and taught the villagers to make tea.

The discovery of good tea by the sister was passed on to ten, ten to a hundred, and soon to a local rich man. The rich man then brought someone to the house of the sister, asked her to guide where the tea mountain was, and "invited" the sister to go to his house to make tea for him, and the sister was not willing to let the good tea be occupied by the rich man, and flatly refused to guide the location of the tea mountain, and politely refused to make tea for the rich man. The rich man was so embarrassed and angry that he instructed Jia Ding to kill the old father who picked up the sister, and then rushed up to grab the sister, and when the sister saw the situation, he ran with the teapot in his hand, and the rich man and the family man then chased after him, chased to the edge of the Yuanshui River beach, and saw that they were about to catch up, and the sister threw the teapot backwards, only to hear a loud "boom", and the teapot became a big mountain, pressing the rich man and his family under the mountain. The mountain was suddenly covered with tea trees, and the tea trees were also blooming with white and slightly yellow camellias. Only to see the sister faintly emerge from the camellias, step on the auspicious clouds and drift away, and never come back. However, the tea trees on the mountain grew longer and greener, and the local people in Beirong also learned to make tea leaves, and the tea they made became more and more fragrant. In order to commemorate the tea making by the sister, the local people in Beirong called the river beach "Pick Beach", and the mountain that the teapot became was called "Pick Beach Mountain". Later, due to the local dialect, the "Pick Beach" and "Pick Up Beach Mountain" gradually evolved into "Jie Tan" and "Jie Tan Shan". To this day, the main peak south of Na jie tan mountain is still called Silver Kettle Mountain.

Many years later, legend has it that during the dictatorship of Empress Wu more than 1300 years ago, Li Dan, the eighth son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, was demoted by his mother Empress Wu to Hujiaping Village in Zhangjiaping Township (now Liangshuijing Town) in Yuanling County, Chenzhou Prefecture, and assigned to the local Hu yuanwai family as a servant. Over time, Li Dan and Hu Fengjiao, the kind-hearted and beautiful daughter of Hu Yuanwai, became in love, and the two of them agreed that no matter what happened in the future, they would love each other for the rest of their lives. Later, Wu abdicated the throne, and Li Dan returned to the dynasty and became emperor, called Tang Ruizong. This Ruizong was also an obsessive lover, and without forgetting his misery and love, he sent someone to take Hu Fengjiao back to Kyoto and give her as a concubine. The official government took Niangniang Hu Fengjiao from Hujiaping to Chenzhou Capital in a luan palanquin, and then sent an official ship from Chenzhou Capital Shunyuan Water East down to ChangdeFu to the capital, and the official ship traveled to the north of Rongjie Beach, where it suddenly encountered strong winds and anchored at Jietan beach to avoid the wind.

When the official ship was moored, Lady Fengjiao suddenly smelled a burst of fragrance, looked back but saw this hill surrounded by yuanshui, the peaks were beautiful, the tea garden was green, and there was a crane pavilion on the mountain, and the pavilion was cool and breezy, just to stop for a rest. Fengjiao Niangniang and her party climbed Jietan Mountain and tasted the Jietan tea offered by the villagers. Look at that Jietan tea for green tea, its shape, color, fragrance, taste are very unique, the shape of the cord is tight, quite beautiful, the color is green, the inner texture is high and lasting, there is a chestnut aroma, the taste is fresh and sweet, after drinking back to sweet, after brewing the soup color yellow and green clear, the tea leaves in the cup rise and fall like silver fish swimming. What is more interesting is that the near one does not smell its fragrance because of "drunk", the far one feels the fragrance because of "thirst", and one person tastes tea and fills the house with aroma. Lady Fengjiao felt sweet and refreshing, very appreciative, full of praise, and took it back to the imperial court. Tang Ruizong also felt that this tea was good, and Long Yan was very happy, and gave it to the Wenwu Hundred Officials to drink, and everyone praised it in unison. Since then, the fragrant and refreshing Jietan tea has been listed as a tribute, and every year the imperial court sends people to supervise the production of tea leaves and pay tribute to the imperial court as a tribute tea.

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