What is Spring?
Is it 100 people's hearts that there will be 100 springs? Just past the Qingming small long holiday, have you been busy picking tea and digging bamboo shoots to see the mountain flowers embrace spring?
This Saturday, looking for spring does not need to "go up the mountain and go to the countryside", 200 kilometers away from Hangzhou, Chun'an County Jiukeng Township, has packed the entire "spring" to Hangcheng to face you face to face.
▲Today's City Express reported
Eight hundred years of mother tree dove pit tea
The most wonderful spring in the dove pit is the refreshing taste of the dove pit hair tip tea.
At this time last year, the dove pit Maojian tea "the first time the big girl went to the car" and came to Hangcheng for the first time. At the end of March this year, the news of the mining of the 800-year-old "Tea Tree King" in Jiukeng swept through the circle of friends (see the B5 edition of the City Express on March 27 for details), which attracted the attention of the central, provincial and municipal media, including Xinhua News Agency.
We also wrapped up the Mingqian Tea of the "Tea Tree King" to crowdfund together, and on March 30th, we invited fans and readers who had successfully crowdfunded to visit the "Tea Tree King" together in Jiukeng.
Cha Xiang is not afraid of the long distance, even if it is a thousand miles a day, what is more, the morning of the same day by high-speed rail from Shanghai!
Senior tea friend Miss Tian drank Jiukeng tea, and was immediately circled: "When I drank the first sip, there was still a little light, when I drank the second sip, the distinct sweetness comparable to the high-quality Longjing began to appear, and the third sip, I experienced the fierce return to the sweet, which was the best spring tea I drank, and I was truly unmatched!"
There is a saying called "Dove Pit Seed, Mother Tea": The Tea Tree planted in the Dove Pit is the ancestor of the world's tea, which began in the Han, Flourishing in the Tang, Xing in the Song, Ding in the Qing, successive generations of tea scholars, literati and inkers have greatly respected "her", and the Tang Dynasty was designated as a tribute to the imperial court.
"Growing in the high mountain area at the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui, the soil on the mountain is fine and sticky and fertile, the clouds are full of mist, and the unique climate has created a different taste of Jiukeng tea, and the orchid fragrance and sweetness are the unique qualities of top Jiukeng tea." Wang Fenglei, director of the Agricultural Office of the Jiukeng Township Government, said that Jiukeng tea has a fine and tight shape, a moist color, a high aroma, and a strong taste, which is the true love of many tea lovers.
"Jiukeng Township is building the province's first characteristic town with organic tea as the theme, and there are 1,743 acres of tea gardens that have been certified by the organic base." Cheng Leiling, deputy mayor of Jiukeng Township, said. In recent years, under the background of Chun'an's "joint grasp of great protection and not engaged in large-scale development", Jiukeng Township has actively explored the "deep green" development model, protected the original tea in Jiukeng, promoted the integrated development of tea tourism, and made Chun'an greener.
The "spring" of the dove pit is packed into Hangzhou
On April 13 (this Saturday), the 2019 Qiandao Lake Tea Expo and Jiukeng Organic Tea Town Promotion Conference will be held in Hangzhou Canal Square in Gongshu District.
At the opening ceremony, the signing ceremony of qiandao lake "Jiukeng Maojian" entering 100 postal bank sales points in Hangzhou, signing the strategic agreement on tea production and marketing cooperation, donating seedlings of "Jiukeng Mother Tea", and opening the first "Jiukeng Tuancha" cultural and creative tea experience machine in China will be held.
There will be dozens of Jiukeng tea enterprises and tea and agricultural products in 9 villages.
In the past few days, the villagers of various villages in Jiukeng Township are preparing for entering Hangcheng, in addition to preparing the tea leaves that most represent the spring of Jiukeng, they are also collecting all kinds of mountain rare wild vegetables by streams, mountains, terraces, and ditches, and they want to pack the "spring" of Jiukeng and send them to Hangcheng (and also shoot Vibrato for publicity).
Here comes the mountain babes:
Yancun - Jiukeng Mountain Treasure, wild bracken
"Bracken is very common in our country, and you can pick a lot of it up the mountain. This time, the dried bracken brought by yancun is a treasure in Chun'an, which is a necessary ingredient for making rice soup, and can also be used to stew salted meat and stewed pork feet. Yan Jincai, director of Yancun Village, said that April is the best time to pick bracken, otherwise it will be old. After this time, if you want to eat such fresh bracken, you have to wait for a whole year!
Starlight Village——
Farmhouse specialties, detoxifying maran head
"The maran head in spring is the most tender and delicious. There are very few wild maran heads, they all grow by streams and small roads, and when they are harvested, they will grow old, and if they are not picked in time, they will grow old. Secretary Hongzhu Mao of Xingguang Village said that usually eats Malantou at home to cold mix, blanch water to remove the bitter taste of Malantou, mix sesame oil, clear heat and go to the fire, refreshing and delicious after the entrance, slightly sweet. There is also fried with dried tofu, and the fragrance is incredible.
BIBS Village——
The grass by the Qingqing River tasted good when I was a child
"This onion is not a shallot, the small wild onion in Qingmiao Village is more fragrant than the general onion, and as a spice scrambled eggs, fried pork, etc., the taste is better, usually when wrapping the kway teow, it will be chopped and mixed into the filling, the kwan will be more delicious, more fragrant." Yan Huacui, secretary of Qingmiao Village, said that wild onions are generally mixed in the weeds, and the number is small, so it is more difficult to find...
Fuzhi Village——
Water celery, cool detoxification everyone loves
"In the past, it was easy to find water celery in the paddy fields, and it was all in pieces, but now it is only found in small streams and ditches, and there are very few. This time into the city, looking for a collection should be one or twenty pounds, and then a bundle of packs, according to a bundle of more than ten yuan to sell. Yu Hongqin, secretary of Fuzhi Village, said that usually everyone is fried and eaten with water celery, stir-fried or fried with shredded meat and bacon, or fried with water celery oil tofu, which is very delicious.
Zhonglian Village——
Authentic dried farmhouse tofu, fragrant, delicious and tender!
Chun'an people are good at tofu and are also good at making tofu, and the "Nanfu Dried Tofu" made by Hong Jinjun, a villager in Zhonglian Village, Jiukeng Township, is a must.
"The dried tofu I made was antique, and it was famous as early as the Republic of China. I took over the craft from my grandmother and mother for 11 years. Villager Hong Jinjun said, I only use the beans and mountain spring water grown by local farmers, so that the bean juice squeezed out is rich and thick, and the dried tofu is soft and elastic, and you can pinch it with your hand to bounce back. Handmade with a special marinade heated from ancestral secret recipes, it is full of color and flavor, delicate taste and endless aftertaste.
Jinta Village——
Toon, farmhouse dish, precious dish!
Toon is a rare delicacy in spring, and for the people of the city, it is satisfying to eat it once in a while.
"There are a lot of toon in our village, basically we can eat meals, scrambled eggs with toon, bamboo shoots with toon, tofu with tofu, cold tofu... It's delicious to make in a variety of ways. Guan Shiqin, secretary of Jinta Village, said that the consumption of toon is seasonal, and it is impossible to eat fresh toon for many years, so Chun'an rural areas have the habit of making dried toon, and moldy dried vegetables are added together to make toon moldy dried vegetables.
Nanto Village
Vegetable bamboo shoots, delicious taste, everyone loves to eat, health and stomach!
"Vegetable bamboo shoots, delicious taste, healthy stomach, everyone loves to eat." Especially during the Spring Festival, longevity noodles are used to make toppings, and the taste is very good. Qian Wenwei, director of Milk Cave Village, said that fresh bamboo shoots of course have to be fried bacon to taste, but now it is not too much, until the time of Lixia.
Cuifeng Village——
Mountains and water are good wormwood green, and the dove pit tribute tea is fragrant
"In Chun'an, before and after the Qingming Dynasty, I like to eat kueh, that wormwood is the raw material, and what is made green is our common Qingming dumpling." Director Lu Fatian of Cuifeng Village said that after cooking the fresh wormwood picked, store it for a few days, and then put it into the stone mortar and slowly pound it until the wormwood becomes a paste, and then put the paste-like wormwood and rice noodles together and stir it evenly, wrapped in chun'an rural special tofu stuffing or spring shoot filling, you can see the semi-finished Qingming rice dumplings that are beautiful and delicious.
Evergreen Village——
Drink good water to cultivate good tea, and the wild vegetables in the mountains are for you to pick!
"Now there are a lot less wild vegetables than before, but it is still a little bit, this time, other villages have brought a kind of wild vegetables, we prepared 6 kinds of maran head, toon, water celery, wild onion, houttuynia cordata and bracken." Xu Lingling, secretary of Evergreen Village, proudly said that this time the launch of "colorful wild vegetables", containing five kinds of wild vegetables, packed in baskets, basket by basket sold, each basket is 100 yuan, the basket containing wild vegetables is also hand-woven with water bamboo, of course, this time also brought some tea.
Invite 100 fans to Canal Square for spring tea
Today, 100 tea tasting places will be given away in Canal Square, and each person will also send a small gift from Jiukeng (6 small bags of fine tea; 28 yuan gift tea coupons can be purchased on the spot, as well as water cups, umbrellas, books about Jiukeng tea, etc.).
Forward the "Dove Pit" content in the quick hug app to the circle of friends, leave a message in the circle of friends "quick hug take me to taste the tea king", screenshot the circle of friends and upload it in the fast hug app, the first 100 people can get 1 place for free, the amount is full. List we will be notified by SMS.