Changde Taohuayuan: Hospitality begins with a bowl of tea

In the past few days, Taohuayuan tea has spread from the prototype of the Eastern Jin Dynasty writer Tao Yuanming's "Taohuayuan" - Hunan Changde Taohuayuan, through the CCTV-1, CCTV-2 throughout the motherland, through the CCTV-4 to the world, the hospitality of Taohuayuan people from a bowl of tea, with the original heart, like an infinite bond, the feelings of the global Chinese are connected together, warming this National Day Mid-Autumn Festival long fake rain to find every dreamer in the heart of the peach blossom source.

"When he saw the fisherman, he was horrified, and asked where he had come from. Answered. Then they will return home and set up wine to kill chickens for food. The village heard of this person, and Xian came to inquire. Since Yun's ancestors avoided the chaos of Qin, he led his wife Yiren to this desperate situation, did not come back, and was separated from outsiders. Ask what world it is, but I don't know whether there is a Han, no matter Wei Jin. This person sighed one by one for what he had heard. The rest of the people went back to their homes and all drank and ate. "Tao Yuanming's hospitality in Xanadu is everywhere in the real life of Changde Taohuayuan, and it has been passed down forever with a bowl of fragrant tea, which has become a unique hospitality of Taohuayuan.

Legend has it that more than 2,000 years ago, Ma Yuanshuai marched south, and the Tun soldiers were in Sima CuoCheng (now Changde Taohuayuan Wutou Ancient Village), and the military camp caused a plague, and the local residents offered sansheng soup, that is, tea, to cure the plague. For thousands of years, the eating habit of making tea has been passed down from generation to generation in Taohuayuan, and it is not only a craft, but also a culture that has been passed down to future generations.

This National Day Mid-Autumn Festival superimposed long holiday, as long as you come to Changde Taohuayuan, you can taste The Peach Blossom Garden tea for free. Hundreds of volunteers in the Taohuayuan Tourism Management Area wear red vests and little red hats to answer questions, maintain the order of scenic spots, guide civilized tourism, and send hot tea to tourists in the main visitor center, and their fragrance, affection and warmth are all integrated inside.

Since September, the second Tea Culture Festival and King Challenge has been held in Changde Taohuayuan, and after 4 rounds of auditions, 10 players have been selected. On October 2nd, the finals of the second Tea Festival and The King Challenge were held in The Wuliu Hall of Taohuayuan, Changde, and Peng Qin, a Tujia girl from Sanshuiwan Ecological Park, won the title of "Champion King", and Hunan Satellite TV, Hunan Economic Television and Hunan Dushi reported on the event in a large-scale manner. At 22:00 on October 3, Taohuayuan Tea was honored on the CCTV-1 "Evening News" of CCTV Comprehensive Channel. It's really out of the level and features! Race out of culture and confidence! Race out the style and enthusiasm of Taohuayuan people!

For more than a month, each competition was a tea feast, with contestants making and displaying creative tables on the spot, and many tourists enjoyed the tea while watching the performance. In the whole process, the contestants, judges and tourists gave great enthusiasm to Taohuayuan Tea, making Taohuayuan Tea a beautiful landscape in Hunan this holiday. Tourist Xiaoya said: "This year's trip to Peach Blossom Garden is too worthwhile, delicious and good-looking and fun tea competition, I still saw it for the first time, the atmosphere is too good." Wan Zhichu, the representative inheritor of the Peach Blossom Tea Customs of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Project of Hunan Province, hopes that the original intention of the Peach Blossom Garden Tea People will not change, and continue to inherit and innovate!

As an intangible cultural heritage, a bowl of tea from "bitter soup" to "three sheng soup" and "five-flavor soup", from "Wuling tea" to "Changde tea" and "peach blossom source tea", no matter how the name changes, taohuayuan has always adhered to the history and peach blossom source culture of "Ma Yuan Shuai soldiers drinking tea".

In the long river of history, Taohuayuan tea is based on local materials and time conditions, helping Taohuayuan people to survive the difficult years in the past; its unique food consumption and cold repellent effect has now become a kind of eating habit for people's health care. It not only carries the long history and culture of Taohuayuan, connects the family and friendship of Taohuayuan people, and reflects the hospitality of Taohuayuan people.

In order to better inherit the tea culture, the Taohuayuan Tourism Management District has held the Tea Culture Festival for two consecutive years to spread the Taohuayuan Tea Culture to the majority of tourists. This King's Challenge reflects this point even more, as the winner of the "Golden Stick" Award of the King's Challenge said: "As the King of the Fight, the burden of promoting Taohuayuan Tea is heavy, and I want to spread the tea of Taohuayuan to the whole world like the scenery." This is also the original intention of the Taohuayuan people.

The original intention has not changed, and the taohuayuan culture will be passed on forever. In today's era of rapid development, Taohuayuan tea is more like a link of friendship, Taohuayuan Tourism Management Area not only hopes that tourists can taste authentic tea here, but also hopes that in every lonely night in the future, they can remember the tea that they have drunk in Taohuayuan in their hearts, and miss the warmth brought by a bowl of tea. (Xiao Mao Mengfei)

Source: Taohuayuan Rong Media Center