On July 22 this year, the "100 Counties, 100 Tea • 100 People" tea industry to help alleviate poverty, rural revitalization advanced and typical public welfare selection activities jointly sponsored by the China Tea People Association, the China Tea Industry Alliance, the China International Tea Culture Research Association, and the Cross-Strait Tea Industry Exchange Association held a review meeting of the selection committee in Beijing, in strict accordance with the selection rules, selected 100 tea-producing counties (cities, The activities of the district) and the county (city, district) tea regional public brand or major tea varieties, as well as the activities of 100 outstanding tea people who have made outstanding contributions to the county's poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, have already achieved results.
As a travel blogger, Xiaobian mainly does the responsibility and obligation of a media person. Make a little contribution to the rural tourism of the whole country, and make a modest contribution to the promotion of tea in the country. From this issue, Xiaobian and everyone walked into the hundred counties and hundred teas selected by the country to deeply understand the local customs and folk culture. Well, in this issue, we are going to talk about Yixing City, Jiangsu, where Yangxian tea is produced.
Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, has always had the title of "China's Pottery Capital", and the purple sand pot that has been passed down for hundreds of years has long been famous all over the world. However, for Yangxian tea, which was ranked first among the Tang Dynasty tribute teas earlier, most of the people felt unfamiliar, and its fame was far less than that of Hangzhou Longjing and Taihu Biluochun, which belonged to Jiangnan.
In Yixing, it can be said that it is a famous tea with a famous pot, in fact, the founder of the purple sand pot is the Ming Dynasty Zhengde - Jiajing Shi (for spring). "Yu Congzu Fist Shi Gong read Nanshan, with a boy's name for spring, and saw that the natives used mud as a jar, that is, Chengqi mud as a pot, extremely ancient and lovely, the so-called spring pot also." (Wu Meiding: "Yang Envy Porcelain Pot Endowment And Preface") For the spring pot, people at that time praised "maroon dark, such as ancient and modern iron, Dun Pang Zhouzheng."
Yixing ancient called Yang Xian, in the Tang Dynasty was famous for Yang Envy tea into tribute, with the "Seven Bowls of Tea Poems" famous Tang Dynasty poet Lu Tong, once wrote "Tianzi did not taste Yang Envy tea, hundreds of grasses dare not blossom first" famous sentence, it can be seen that Yang Envy tea in the Tang Dynasty has been famous in the world. During the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang, there were mountain monks who entered Yang Envy Tea, and it was also described by "Tea Saint" Lu Yupin as "Fragrant Crown WorldLy Property, Available for The Above", and its preciousness can be imagined.
The shape of tea in the Tang Dynasty was originally "steamed into a ball", Yangxian tea was also the earliest bud of a bud and a leaf or two leaves of the tea tree buds, after steaming, pounding, patting, roasting, wearing, sealing, drying and other processes to make a circular flake tea, the Ming Dynasty waste group tea changed to loose tea. After several changes such as the Tang Dynasty tea cooking method, the Song Dynasty tea ordering method, and even the Ming Dynasty descending tea method, Yang Envy Tea has always been deeply loved by the rioters. For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the preferred tribute tea was replaced by Beiyuan Tea (present-day Jian'ou, Fujian Province), and the great talent Su Shi still left the famous sentence "Snow buds I envy for seeking yang, and milk jun should be Huiquan".
Generally, while cultivating tea gardens on hillsides, tea merchants or tea farmers will most likely cut down the original trees and cause a large amount of water and soil loss in order to expand more planting areas and facilitate management. However, some tea areas in Yixing retain a large number of camphor trees, and as far as the eye can see, the huge tea gardens are surrounded by dense woods. Insect traps that replace pesticide spraying can be seen from time to time in the green waves of tea gardens, chirping birds are constantly heard, and bird nests and unmelted bird eggs can be found in the tea bushes.
The glorious history of Yangxian tea needs to be inherited and developed, and good tea cannot be better developed, in addition to the production, production area, tea making technology and other reasons, but also to let more people know, this is also very important. I also hope that we tea people, do not forget the original intention, make good tea with conscience, and let the real good tea go to the whole country and go out of the world.
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