From today (November 1), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Green Tea Low Temperature Storage and Preservation Technical Specifications" officially implemented nationwide. Yi Hua, a 67-year-old retired yingshan cadre, happily told reporters: "The stone in my heart has landed!" ”
Yi Hua was the first drafter of this technical specification.
According to him, in 1997 he studied "green tea preservation", the effect began to appear in 1998, and has been continuously improved since then, and won the "Science and Technology Invention Award" issued by the provincial government in 2007. He told reporters, "Before winning the award, I taught it everywhere for free, but people didn't pay much attention to it, saying that although the tea was not as fragrant as the beginning the next year, it didn't kill people, so why bother?" As everyone knows, Hubei tea can't beat in the whole country, it is this kind of inert thinking that only manages 'no accidents' and does not seek 'excellent in the best'..."
A tortuous life, a respectable old man
Yi Hua was born in 1954, where he came from, he did not know.
According to him, 4 months after birth, his birth mother died of illness. It was a time when he didn't have enough to eat, and his father gave him away. He spent 6 years with his adoptive mother, who died. Before he died, he told him that you should go to Huangzhou and find a person named "Yi Yuanpu".
What story the adoptive mother has with Yi Yuanpu is unknown. Only 6 years old, he took a broken bowl while begging for food and asked for directions, walked for nearly half a year, only to ask about the then Huangzhou Nanhu Farm, found Yi Yuanpu, he had the name "Yi Hua".
Yi Yuanpu never married, regarded him as his own, raised him, and sent him to study. In 1984, he graduated from the then Huanggang Normal College and taught at Yingshan No. 3 Middle School. His adoptive father reminded him, "It wasn't I who raised you, it was the party and the country, and I named you 'Hua', the Hua of China, and you have to repay your kindness." ”
The loyalty of the naked son, full of pride
With the teachings of his adoptive father, he taught seriously and loved Yingshan.
At the age of 30, he still has no intention of marriage, and he always rides bicycles on weekends to investigate the geology, soil, and growth of various crops in Yingshan.
Yingshan "eight mountains, one water and one field", 1449 square kilometers he almost ran all over, visited the poor and asked hardships, took notes, wrote a ten-thousand-word survey report on how Yingshan better developed the economy, and sent it to the Yingshan County Party Committee at that time.
At that time, shortly after the reform and opening up, Huang Jun, then secretary of the county party committee, was greatly moved and quickly sent two special classes, one to demonstrate the feasibility of his report, and the other to examine himself. In 1995, he was transferred to the organization department of the county party committee, and not long after, he was sent to be the deputy mayor of Yangliuwan Town Science and Technology.
He was full of spirits and led the villagers of Willow Bay to plant tea in a large area.
At that time, there were not many Yingshan tea farmers, and the villagers were reluctant to plant, so they planted the tea seedlings issued by the government during the day and secretly pulled them out at night.
How can this be? Only after inquiring from many sources did I know that it was better to grow tea than to grow grain. Growing tea to three or five years to see the effect, spring picking a little, after June will not be able to sell, but also easy to deteriorate, only fried tea, within a few days on the taste is not correct.
At his own expense, he went to Huangshan in Anhui, Xinchang in Zhejiang, and Anxi in Fujian. Very depressed, at that time the whole country's tea is like this, growing tea does not make money.
He began to delve into storing tea. At that time, more pots were used to seal and store tea, charcoal was placed at the mouth of the altar to absorb moisture, and there were also boiling water bottles, but there was not much storage. He thought that the freezer could keep vegetables, fruits and meat fresh, and should also be able to keep tea fresh. Bought 5 pounds of tea leaves into the freezer, took out after 3 months, moldy.
Roasted tea, the temperature is as low as -18 ° C, still moldy, it seems that the tea spoiled not only because of the high temperature, but also related to the temperature is too low, which involves dry humidity, as well as packaging materials.
He switched to aluminum foil bags, took it out after 3 months, and it was much better damp and moldy, but the tea smell could not be smelled. Run to Wuhan to consult experts and professors, learned that -18 ° C will destroy the active bacteria of tea, where is the incense?
He went home to continue experimenting, I don't know how many 5 pounds of tea he bought, I don't know how many times he tried. In 1997 the secret was finally found: the best dry humidity was 93 to 97%, the best temperature was 0 to ±5 ° C, and it had to be packaged in double aluminum foil.
But still no one believed in him, so he "tested the Fa by example."
In 1998, he raised 500,000 yuan, and in the off-season (June-October) to buy famous green tea from the county, the average price was 28 yuan / catty, people rushed to sell him, a total of 10,000 catties, the county food company cold storage rented, according to the preservation parameters he set, storage.
Autumn tea gradually rose in price, rose to 100 yuan / jin when he began to sell, Ming said "I am stored spring tea, the taste is not right, you can return", but the tea leaves are tender as ever, people are crazy to buy. When it rose to 150 yuan / jin, rose to 360 yuan / jin, and finally someone was willing to buy it with 500 yuan / jin, 10,000 jin of stored tea had been sold out.
He made $1.2 million, but he didn't become a businessman. He taught the technology to tea farmers free of charge, and more than 30 cold stores were built in the county at once. The total output of Yingshan tea ranks first in the province and the forefront of the country, which began with his "test method by example". In December 2007, he won the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Invention Award.
Today's Yingshan, the production of famous tea ranks the forefront of the country. 10 of the 11 townships are specialized in tea. Yangliuwan Town, where Yi Hua was the deputy mayor of Science and Technology, has long been known as "the first tea town in Dabie Mountain".
Non-stop running, immortal ingenuity
Dr. Chen Xun of the Fruit and Tea Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who is also one of the drafters of this preservation technical specification implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on November 1, has deep admiration for Yi Hua, saying that "tea preservation and storage, sooner or later someone will do it, and Yi Daddy is ahead of the times." Yi Hua thinks of the "Hubei brand", running for many years, calling for freshness, but the market response is not high, because tea merchants only for their own benefits.
There is also an objective reason, not all tea leaves are in urgent need of freshness, the requirements for low-grade tea are not large, and the requirements for oolong tea, white tea and black tea are not high. "Some people say that Yi Daddy suffers from gout, walking difficulties and running around for free, is drilling the tip of the bull's horn, wants to be famous, he is almost 70 years old, what is the name?" Chen Xun said that the main thing that needs to be preserved is green tea, which accounts for more than 90% of the total tea in Hubei. Like Jin Junmei, Silver Junmei, this kind of sky-high-end green tea, the preservation is not enough, the brand is huge. "Yi Daddy's avant-garde attention to the overall situation of Hubei tea reflects the spirit of craftsmanship."
Zong Qingbo, a researcher at the Fruit and Tea Office of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told reporters that he has always been touched by Yi Hua's spirit, "but the market has not given him the response he deserves, and there is a specific reason." Zong Qingbo said that the relevant national industry technical standards are divided into mandatory and advocacy types. Consumer health and social safety must be enforced; the rest are mostly encouraged in order to achieve optimal product quality. "This is also Yi Hua's valuable and respectable, he hopes that every tea merchant can achieve the best products, and hopes that Hubei will change from a 'big province of tea industry' to a 'strong province of tea industry' as soon as possible, which is really admirable." It is hoped that through the official promulgation of the technical specifications for low-temperature storage and preservation of green tea by the state, it will help the majority of tea merchants to spontaneously improve quality and strive for excellence, and raise the overall level of Hubei's tea industry to a new level as soon as possible. ”
(Hubei Daily full media reporter Liu Zhenxiong)
Source: Hubei Daily