Development history of Meitan tea culture
Meitan tea culture has a long history. As early as the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Tang Meng, a corps commander, to northern Guizhou, and found that the tea trade was very prosperous, so he bought some for the emperor. Lu Yu, a Cha Sheng in the Tang Dynasty, recorded the history of growing tea in Meitan in the Book of Tea, and said? I often get it, and it tastes excellent? . From 65438 to 0939, the Central Agricultural Laboratory established a tea garden in Meitan and began to plant and make tea on a large scale.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Tianfu, a contemporary tea master, personally selected the Central Experimental Tea Farm, and a large number of patriotic scholars who moved to western Zhejiang worked and studied in Meitan. The poems left by drinking tea and writing poems boosted the development of the tea industry. At the same time, Zhang Tianfu, Liu Gan Zhi and Li Lianbiao, among the top ten contemporary tea people, have all worked in Meitan. Seven years after Zhejiang University moved to Meitan, Su and other famous professors initiated the establishment of Meijiang Printing Society, leaving behind dozens of tea poems and songs and other rich cultural resources, and various tea culture activities also flourished, laying a solid foundation for the construction of Meitan tea culture. So far, there are 329 tea enterprises and individual processing households in Meitan. Tea enterprises have more than 50 registered trademarks, all created with painstaking efforts? Meitan Cui Ya? The brand has won 40 tea industry awards at home and abroad, including 28 national gold medals. Meitan Cui Ya? In 2009? Top ten famous teas in Guizhou? Won the first place in the evaluation, 20 10? Five famous teas in Guizhou? Won the first place in the total score in the selection.
Meitan is listed as the first batch of pollution-free tea production demonstration base counties, southwest tea city and designated market of the Ministry of Agriculture? National key tea-producing counties? 、? China Three Green Project Tea Demonstration County? Have you ever obtained it? China Tea Industry Development Government Contribution Award? ,? Hometown of famous tea in China? And then what? The most popular tea-producing place for the people? Wait for the title.
Introduction of Meitan Tea Culture Scenic Spot
Mingqinggong tea house
The spring rain hits people lazily, and the twists and turns, steep slopes and sharp bends are the first impressions of reporters entering the Gong tea garden in Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to Master Luo, the road from Meitan County to Yungui Mountain was built only two years ago. The unique geographical environment has created an elegant original ecological tea garden here. After the rain, the clouds wrapped around the whole hill, making people feel a little cold.
? Ming and Qing Palace Tea Garden is a resounding geographical symbol of Meitan tea culture. In ancient society, tea has always been regarded as a high-grade drink that officials rushed to buy. Meitan has such a tea garden, which supplies tea to the royal family all the year round, and it is today's Ming and Qing Palace tea garden. Now, all the major tea enterprises in Meitan County have effectively used this tea garden, and a series of conditions such as soil, moisture and climate are still well preserved. Coupled with the continuous innovation of processing technology today, Meitan tea is popular all over the country today. ? Huang Jianfeng, deputy general manager of Meitan Yangchun Baixue Tea Co., Ltd. said.
Nowadays, all kinds of tea produced by palace tea garden in Ming and Qing dynasties are sold all over the country. Meitan Cui Ya? As the first public brand in Guizhou to obtain a well-known trademark, we have reason to believe that the high-standard tea garden of Gong Tea Garden in Ming and Qing Dynasties will bring great value to Meitan people tomorrow.
Central experimental tea garden
1939, the Central Experimental Tea Farm of the Republic of China settled in Meitan, and Guizhou set another record in the history of tea.
At that time, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered a white-hot stage, and the ecological conditions in mountainous areas were severely damaged, resulting in soil erosion and a sharp drop in tea production. At the same time, the export of traditional export products such as tea and silk in the southeast coast was blocked. Experimental tea farm? It originated in Meitan. The National Government intends to export China tea, which has been favored by the international community for a long time, through Stilwell Road (that is, the 24-turn hump route from Qinglong) in exchange for more foreign exchange to buy various military equipment needed during the Anti-Japanese War. Since then, Meitan tea is not only a refreshing tea, but also a revolutionary force.
After the establishment of the Central Tea Farm in the Republic of China, Meitan became the research and planting center of modern tea in China. The following year, many tea experts succeeded in trial production? Red and green? Since then, it has been exported overseas, with a total output of 6,543.8+0,000-20,000.
Walk in? Central experimental tea garden? The foothold, everything in the factory is well preserved, the black tea production line, and the tea leaves from the booth to the kneading and drying seem to bring people to the factory area that covers an area of more than 50 mu during the mechanized tea-making period and still maintains its original appearance, all of which have left valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.
Quan, a professor and researcher at the Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, once said: What the Central Experimental Tea Farm left behind represents the development history of our country from scratch and from low to high. The black tea production line preserved in the old Meitan Tea Farm is the most complete black tea production line I have ever seen, which is of great historical value. I hope to keep these things well. ?
The Central Experimental Tea Farm not only represents the footprint of a tea culture, but also makes us feel the glorious mission of a revolutionary experimental area to protect the country with tea.
Tea culture gallery
The tea culture corridor is not built in Meitan City, but in an industrial park several kilometers away. It was built by Yangchun Baixue Co., Ltd. Speaking of which? Yuanyuan? Huang Jianfeng is very calm: Since the establishment of the enterprise, we have been pursuing a higher level of cultural value. Culture is the soul of enterprise survival. Without it, enterprises are as lifeless and energetic as the walking dead. Investing in building a tea culture corridor is only the beginning. ?
? Everyone should have his own life value. As a tea man, we should have a sense of mission to safeguard the tea culture. The same is true for enterprises. To be a responsible enterprise, we should contribute to the tea industry in Meitan. ? Huang Jianfeng said.
Every corner of the cultural corridor has a little record of Meitan tea culture, which gives the world a space for appreciation and feeling in the form of sculpture.
Tea culture ecology museum
Establishing a tea culture museum, effectively protecting and utilizing the tea cultural heritage, and making the tea industry put on the coat of tea culture and become more complete, which is not only the need for the tea industry to develop to a certain period, but also one of the most essential factors for the protection and inheritance of tea culture.
Stepping into the tea culture ecological museum, pictures, words, audio and video show the tea culture with regional characteristics in Meitan and its? Prospering the county with tea? It has a long history.
From the origin of tea tree, it has gone through nine parts: ancient tea affair, famous historical tea, central experimental tea farm in the Republic of China, agricultural reclamation tea, tea scientific research, tea supply and marketing and foreign trade, contemporary tea industry and tea ceremony, and tea custom. There is ancient, modern and contemporary tea culture here, which is rich in content and all-encompassing. Taking Meitan as a point and radiating the tea culture of the whole province, all the development history of tea industry can find its development track from here, which can be described as a tea book? An encyclopedia? .
The Formation and Development History of Tea Culture
Enlightenment of tea culture before the Three Kingdoms.
Many books set the discovery time of tea as 2737-2697 BC, and its history can be traced back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Hua Tuo's Book of Food in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Bitter tea is good for a long time." Recorded the medicinal value of tea. The Western Han Dynasty named the tea-producing county "Chaling", that is, Chaling in Hunan. In the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, Guangya first recorded the making method and drinking method of cake tea: picking leaves between Jing and Ba to make cakes, and the old man made cakes out of leaves and made them with rice paste. Tea appears in the form of substance and permeates other cultures to form tea culture.
The germination of tea culture in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
With the rise of literati drinking tea, poems and songs about tea are coming out day by day. As a common form, tea has been separated from the cultural circle of eating and staying, and it plays a certain spiritual and social role.
The Formation of Tea Culture in Tang and Song Dynasties
In 780, Lu Yu wrote Tea Classic, which was the symbol of the formation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty. It summarizes the dual contents of tea's nature and humanity, discusses the art of drinking tea, integrates Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism into drinking tea, and creates the spirit of China Tea Ceremony. Later, a large number of tea books and poems appeared, including Tea Narration, brew tea, Tea Picking and Sixteen Soups. The formation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty was related to the rise of Zen Buddhism. Because tea has the function of refreshing the brain, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, temples advocate drinking tea, planting tea trees around the temples, making tea ceremonies, setting up tea halls, selecting tea heads and holding tea events specially. China tea ceremony was formed in the Tang Dynasty, which is divided into court tea ceremony, temple tea ceremony and literati tea ceremony.
Prosperity of Tea Culture in Song Dynasty Tea industry developed greatly, which promoted the development of tea culture. Among the literati, there have been professional tea tasting societies, such as the "Tang Society" composed of officials and the "Ganren Society" of Buddhists. Zhao Kuangyin of Song Taizu is a tea drinker. He set up a tea hall in the imperial court, and the tea used in the imperial court has been graded. Tea ceremony has become a ritual system, giving tea has become an important means for the emperor to win over ministers and take care of relatives as soon as possible, and it is also an important means to paint portraits of foreign envoys. As for the lower classes, tea culture is more lively. Some people move to other places, neighbors should "offer tea" and guests should worship "Yuanbao tea". You should "order tea" when you are engaged, "combine tea" when you get married, and "combine tea" when you share a room. The rise of folk tea fighting has brought about a series of changes in cooking points.
The Development of Modern Tea Culture