Go to Liupao Tea Township to find farmhouse tea

In the mountains of Liubao Town, Cangwu County, there are tea forests planted by farmers and thousands of wild ancient trees. Local tea farmers make a living by growing tea and selling tea, and liupao tea made by traditional handicrafts is favored by tea merchants, and many guests who like farmhouse tea will come to seek it from afar. We went to Liubao this time to buy tea from a farmhouse in the mountains.

Cangsong Ecological Tea Garden is also called Guanyingping Tea Mountain, where there are ancient yellow bud groups planting tea gardens. The planning and layout of the tea mountain all reflect the intentions of the operators. Beneath the layers of verdant tea mountains is a beautifully curved pond, and a large flock of geese hulas and flutters from the water to the shore, twisting their clumsy dance steps and singing all the way.

In recent years, Cangsong Tea Mountain has combined the tea industry with rural eco-tourism, implemented the integrated construction of tea tourism, and tourists can play and take photos in the tea mountain, experience the fun of picking tea and making tea, and can also go to the tea room under the mountain to taste tea. In the large glass tea room, a variety of Liupao teas are displayed, and the new teas are old and colorful. The tea table is arranged by the floor-to-ceiling window, where you can enjoy the mountain and enjoy tea.

Leaving Cangsong Tea Factory, we came to Maosheng Tea Industry Company's Liupao Tea Production Base - Baji Tea Mountain. After the rain, the clouds on the tea mountain are swirling, the fragrance is refreshing, and the birds are gentle and quiet. The flowing tea furrows are like terraces circling and stretching, and the neem and olive trees planted between the tea trees are the most beautiful rhymes of the tea mountains. The white nozzle between the ridges, like the notes dotted on the stave, seems to have a melodious rhyme echoing through the mountains.

In front of the Blackstone Tea Factory, two ancient banyan tree crowns cover the dome. The corridor connects to a path paved with stone slabs and extends to the factory building behind.

The raw materials for making handmade tea are dried with a basket of fresh tea green, which is labeled with Five Forts, Four Willows, Gongping, BuYi, tangping and tea picking places. In the green-killing room, there are two rows of twelve large iron woks, each of which contains fried and kneaded tea leaves, and the stove is slightly over a loose fire for roasting. The female master who made tea walked back and forth between more than a dozen iron woks, and from time to time she used her hands to lift the tea leaves in the woks. The aroma of tea also aroused my thoughts, recalling the situation of making handmade tea at home many years ago, which was very nostalgic.

Bidding farewell to the Blackstone Tea Factory, we continued to look for tea in the mountains. We parked our cars in the village and went door to door to ask questions. In a family at the top of the hill, the daughter-in-law of the family enthusiastically showed us the tea leaves that the family had stored for many years, and the mother-in-law boiled water for us to test tea. Tried several and felt good. A bag has several kilograms, and friends happily collect these bags of tea.

On the way back from Liubao, my heart was full of joy, this trip to the tea village, the collection of farmhouse tea, for life, but also full of reverie.

(Source: Wuzhou Daily)