Early spring in Meiwu

Meijiawu is located two kilometers northwest of yunqizhu path and in the mountain dock at the north foot of Langling mountain. It is surrounded by green mountains and tea mountains. Like Longjing and Shifeng, Longjing tea is famous for its green color, fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape. Premier Zhou Enlai visited Meijiawu five times before his death to care for and guide the production and development of tea.

When drinking tea, you can smell the fragrance of tea everywhere. It's refreshing and intoxicating to be in it. The reformed Meijiawu has more characteristics: the stream in front of the gate, the back of the Castle Peak, and the elegant environment. It is an ideal place for leisure in the edge of the city.

Meijiawu tea is a treasure in Longjing of West Lake. Tea is picked four times a year. The first tea before Qingming is called "Mingqian tea", also known as "Lianxin"; the tea before Guyu is "Yuqian tea"; the tea at the beginning of summer is "Sanchun tea", also known as "quetongue"; the tea picked one month later is called "Sichun tea", also known as "gengpian". Therefore, "spring" means the fragrance of tea in Meiwu, and the earliest "tea before Ming Dynasty" is the most valuable among the four spring teas, so it is named "spring morning in Meiwu", which is the ninth of the "ten sceneries of the West Lake".

All over the world, layers of tea trees are neatly pruned in terraces. The road meanders at the foot of the mountain and beside the stream. There is no way out in front, and the rear is full of green trees. Then a village appears directly in front of the road, which has the artistic conception of "another village with dark willows and bright flowers".

Early spring in Meiwu

Nine of the ten sceneries of the West Lake, Meijiawu Valley is deep and wide. It is full of vegetation all the year round, and its peaks are emerald. Even in the cold winter, it is like spring weather. Meijiawu is rich in tea, which is a treasure of "West Lake Longjing". "Spring" means the fragrance of tea in Meiwu. During the Qingming Festival, the shadow of tea picking girls looms in the green tea garden on the misty hillside. The singing of birds and tea songs add a aura to the level of Xiumei mountain. It is also the unique cultural scenery of West Lake in spring.

geographical environment

Meijiawu tea culture village, located in the western hinterland of Hangzhou West Lake scenic area, south of Meiling tunnel, is more than ten miles deep along both sides of Meiling Road, known as "ten mile Meiwu". It is one of the first-class West Lake Longjing tea reserves and main producing areas. Meijiawu tea culture village is a tea leisure park with the theme of tea culture, which integrates the continuous green mountains, the murmuring streams, the flourishing tea garden, and emits rich and simple folk customs and tea town customs. It reproduces the natural and beautiful style of "ten mile Meiwu contains the fragrance of tea". Meijiawu tea culture village has more than 160 home tea houses, and a multilingual reception room has been set up in the village to perform tea art. Every spring

You can also personally participate in the spring tea picking, personally experience the strong flavor of tea culture, and enjoy the natural beauty of tea culture ecology and the joy of farmhouse customs. Tea can be brewed at home, or you can sit in a teahouse in the city. But drinking tea at the tea farmer's house in Meijiawu is a different flavor, which is also a new fashion in Hangzhou. Invite three or five friends to a tea farmer's home at random, taste a cup of Longjing new tea picked by the farmer, stir fried by the farmer, sit in the shed of the tea garden, see the green hill tea garden, dotted with tea picking women wearing hats, the countryside scenery, the hard work of the farmer, forget the pressure of work and trivial life, and have a quiet and elegant mood It's the realm of Zen and tea.

Exhibition Profile

There are more than ten places, such as Premier Zhou's memorial hall, Qianlong relics, ancient tree viewing spots, tea garden viewing area, agricultural communities, shililangdang, ancient well, ancient bridge, fishing area, tea art performance area, xiaoyawu, etc.

Features of scenic spots

Rich in tea

Meijiawu is a famous Longjing tea production base in Hangzhou. It has natural scenery and human resources of "no two mountains and long streams, no cloud mountain and self shade". It is surrounded by green hills and tea hills. From all over the world, you can see layers of tea trees neatly pruned in terraces. Meijiawu is rich in tea, which is a treasure in Longjing of West Lake. Tea is picked four times a year. Before Qingming, the first tea is called "Mingqian tea", also called "Lianxin"; before Guyu, it is "Yuqian tea", also known as "qigun tea" and "Erchun tea"; at the beginning of summer, it is "Sanchun tea", also known as "quetongue"; after a month, the latest tea is called "Sichun tea", also known as "gengpian tea".

Spring tea four pick, and the earliest "Ming Tea" is the most valuable. "The guests are happy and have a close look at picking new tea" (Marshal Chen Yi). Classification of tea: according to the picking time: before Qingming, before Guyu, after Guyu. Tea before Ming Dynasty can be called super grade, which can be divided into: top grade (1, 2, 3), super grade (1, 2, 3, 4); Yuqian tea is from grade 1 to grade 4. The main tea varieties in West Lake region are Longjing 43 and laocha (group species).

Longjing producing area

Longjing tea has a long history, which can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it is said that when Emperor Qianlong visited Hangzhou, he wrote a poem in Tianzhu of Longjing tea district, which is called "watching, picking and singing". The West Lake Longjing tea ranked the first in terms of "lion (peak), Dragon (well), cloud (Habitat), tiger (running) and plum (Jiawu)", with the West Lake Longjing tea as the most. The shape of Longjing tea is straight and sharp, flat and handsome, smooth and even, and the color is green and yellow. After brewing, the aroma is clear and lasting, fragrant as blue; the soup color is apricot green, clear and bright, the bottom of leaves is light green, even into flowers, and the buds are upright, lifelike. Taste tea soup, refreshing, flowing between teeth, endless aftertaste. Lu Yu, the famous tea Saint at that time, wrote the world's first monograph on tea, the tea classic, which recorded the tea production in Tianzhu and Lingyin temples in Hangzhou. In the Northern Song Dynasty, "Baoyun tea", "Xianglin tea" and "Baiyun tea" produced in the mountains of West Lake had become tribute tea. In Yuan Dynasty, the quality of Longjing tea was further improved. In the Ming Dynasty, "Qiantang county annals" recorded that "those who produce Longjing tea have the fragrance of beans and flowers, with clear color and sweet taste, which is different from other mountains." Longjing tea has a wide reputation. In the Qing Dynasty, when Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan, he visited Longjing tea district four times and tasted Longjing tea. He was full of praise and named 18 tea trees in front of Hugong temple as "imperial tea". Since then, Longjing tea has become more valuable and famous all over the world. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, the scale of Longjing tea area had been initially formed. At that time, the "Xianglin tea" from Tianzhu Xianglin cave under Lingyin, the "Baiyun tea" from Baiyun peak in upper Tianzhu and the "Baoyun tea" from Baoyun mountain in Geling had been listed as tribute. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the eminent monk Biancai went back to his hometown, where he and Su Dongpo and other literary giants were drinking tea and chanting poems at Shousheng temple at the foot of Shifeng mountain in Longjing. Su Dongpo praised Longjing tea with the words "two new banners under Baiyun peak, greasy green and fresh Valley rain spring", and wrote "old Longjing" and other plaques in calligraphy. Up to now, there are still Hugong temple in Shousheng temple and hanging rocks at the foot of Shifeng mountain in 18 royal tea gardens. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou became the capital of the country, and tea production was further developed. In the Yuan Dynasty, tea produced near Longjing began to appear. Yu Bosheng, a tea lover, began to write a tea drinking poem called "you Longjing". In the poem, he said: "wandering on Longjing, the clouds are clear. Cheng Gong loves his guests and draws water from the secluded sinus. Sitting in my seat, I can't smell the fragrance. But see ladle in the Qing, green shadow fall Bixiu. After cooking and frying the golden bud, you can't take the grain. After rain, you can't bear to gargle It can be seen that the monks and residents at that time saw the quiet scenery in Longjing area, and there were good springs and good tea, so they came together to drink tea and enjoy the scenery. In the Ming Dynasty, Longjing tea began to emerge, its reputation gradually spread far and wide, and began to go out of temples for ordinary people to drink. In the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded in the plaque records of Zhejiang province that "the tea of hangjun county is not as good as that of Longjing, but the fine buds before the rain, with one flag and one shot, are especially precious. The tea produced is not much, so it should be precious." There is a saying in Hangzhou Fu Zhi in Wanli year of Ming Dynasty that "laolongjing's local tea is the best in the two mountains". In the annals of Qiantang County in Wanli year, it is recorded that "those who produce tea from Longjing have the fragrance of beans and flowers, with clear color and sweet taste, which is different from other mountains." At this time, Longjing tea has been listed as China's famous tea. Among the famous teas collected by Huang Yizheng of Ming Dynasty and the national famous teas compiled by Xu Wenchang of Jiangnan, there are Longjing teas.

Cultural tourism

In the 1950s and 1960s, Meijiawu was already a designated tourist area open to foreign guests. Over the past few decades, it has received hundreds of international celebrities and heads of state. From 1953 to 1962, Premier Zhou Enlai visited Meijiawu village five times to inspect and guide the rural work, which was regarded as the contact point to guide the national rural work. In October 2003, President Jiang Zemin visited Meijiawu tea culture village. On April 3, 2006, Vice President Zeng Qinghong visited Meijiawu to inspect the construction of new socialist countryside.

Since 2000, after five years of renovation and creation, Meijiawu tea culture village has become a tea leisure park with the theme of tea culture, which integrates the continuous green mountains, the gurgling streams, the flourishing tea garden, and emits rich and simple folk customs and tea customs. It reproduces the natural and beautiful style of "ten mile Meiwu tea fragrance". Meijiawu tea culture village now has more than 160 tea houses between hometown. A multilingual reception room has been specially set up in the village to explain the history of Meijiawu tea, the picking and frying of tea, the functions of tea and other contents for tourists, as well as tea performance. In spring every year, tourists can also personally participate in the spring tea picking, experience the strong flavor of tea culture, and enjoy the natural beauty of tea culture ecology and the joy of farmhouse customs. As an important carrier of Chinese tea capital in Hangzhou, Meijiawu tea culture village has become a "gold lettered signboard" of Hangzhou. Wu tea culture village is composed of Premier Zhou's memorial hall, Qianlong relics, ancient tree viewing spot, tea garden viewing area, agricultural community, shililangdang, ancient well, ancient bridge, fishing area and tea art performance

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