The most representative Fujian tea culture

Fujian is the birthplace of tea, which has a very long history. As the birthplace of the earliest tea culture, Fujian not only has irreplaceable historical advantages in other places, but also has its own unique tea tasting skills. These techniques can make the brewed tea more fragrant. Then, come with me to see Fujian culture!

Fujian is the hometown of oolong tea with a history of 1000 years. It is the birthplace of tea culture. The written record of tea production in Fujian is more than 300 years earlier than the Tea Classic. The famous Lotus Peak and its lotus tea have built a unique tea culture landscape in the hometown of overseas Chinese. Drinking tea and fighting tea became popular in Song and Yuan Dynasties. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, tea innovation increased, creating oolong tea production technology, and tea trade gradually flourished. The tea mountain and tea in Wuyishan further embellish the cultural rhyme of Fujian tea. Modern Fujian tea culture is further developed on the basis of inheriting predecessors. Planting tea, making tea, selling tea, tasting tea and fighting tea almost occupy the life content of tea villagers.

Making tea is scientific and tasting tea is cultural, which constitutes Fujian's unique humanistic characteristics.

Tea is so close to people's lives that it is a profound and meaningful culture, from rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea to wine and tea of piano, chess, calligraphy and poetry. Thousands of years of historical accumulation and civilization inheritance have made the colorful Chinese civilization wonderfully dissolved in the fragrance of tea, so that in human history, people regard tea as the enjoyment of life, the bridge of friendship, the symbol of civilization and the embodiment of spirit. Its discovery and application shocked the world and attracted worldwide attention. China is called "the hometown of tea" and "the birthplace of tea culture".

The history of China tea culture is continuous, and Fujian tea culture embodies the regional spirit. Tea has a history of thousands of years in Fujian, with the largest number of tea creations and the strangest tea tasting skills. Fujian tea has an important historical position and cultural value in the development of tea in China and even in the world.

Lotus flower tea book in Eastern Jin Dynasty, homesick stone pavilion in Nanyang

The written record of Fujian tea production was first seen in the cliff stone carving "Lotus Flower Tea Front" on the Lotus Flower Peak Stone in Fengzhou Ancient Town, Nan 'an County (AD 376). This is more than 300 years earlier than that recorded in Lu Yu's Tea Classic.

In ancient times, Fengzhou was the political, economic and cultural center of southern Fujian. Lotus Peak is located in the northwest of Taoyuan Village in the north of Zhenbei, with a peak height of about120m. Lianhuayan Temple existed as early as the Western Jin Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there was an Ouyang Zhan library on the mountainside. Han Wo, a poet at the end of the Tang Dynasty, lived in seclusion at this time. He used the poem "Looking for the old lady on the cliff and picking tea songs in local conditions" to describe the production scene of Lianhuafeng tea in that year. In 10 1 1 year, Gao Huilian, the magistrate of Quanzhou, wrote "Tea fragrance in the cracks", which still exists today.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the year of Zheng Deyuan (AD 1506), the Youth Pavilion was built. The pavilion was named after a poem written by Dai Chen in the second year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1069), in which "a lotus flower is not old, and its flowers bloom in the spring". The pavilion is often called "Stone Pavilion" because the beams, roof and all components of the pavilion are carved from granite. Since then, Lianhuafeng Tea has been renamed Shi Ting Green Tea. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, tea planting in Lianhuafeng was more abundant, and many people crossed the sea to make a living in Nan 'an. Shiting Green has gradually become a gift for overseas Chinese wishing "bon voyage". Over time, overseas Chinese loved to drink, and then, Shiting Green sold well in Southeast Asian islands and even exported to Britain.

Homesick wanderers, stone pavilions, tea pavilions and people have built a unique tea culture landscape in the hometown of overseas Chinese. Nowadays, the ancient town is full of brilliance and new buildings are in pieces, but the couplet of the mountain gate is still the same: "Tea is green and green, and the opening is more ancient; Pavilion Gao Lianao, drunk as Gan Kun. "