Huiming Temple

Huiming Temple

Huiming temple is located 5 kilometers southwest of Jingning She Autonomous County, Zhejiang Province. It was built on Huiquan mountain in the second year of Xiantong (861) of Tang Dynasty. It's named after monk Huiming. Huiming monk Yuan Temple, built two iron censers, iron bell one. Now there is an ancient tea plant behind the temple site. Huiming temple is also called xiaokaiyuan temple. It is located at the foot of Xiangshan on the West Bank of Taoxi in the southern suburb of the county. It is the earliest existing ancient temple in Yongchun.

Introduction to scenic spots

Huiming temple is located on Huiming spring mountain, Yameng, Chimu mountain, Jingning County, Zhejiang Province. It was built in the second year of Xiantong (861) of Tang Dynasty. It was named after Huiming monk. The main hall was rebuilt in the 19th year of Jiaqing (1814) of Qing Dynasty. The houtang and youyouxuan were built in the fourth year of tongzhi (1865). Today, only the mountain gate, stone road and the residual walls on both sides are left. The wooden door of the main hall of tianjingyuan is broken. It was rebuilt after 1982. It is said that monks and she people planted tea around the temple. The world famous "Golden Award Huiming tea" is produced here.

The ancients said that there are ancient temples in the mountains, and Huiming temple is no exception. Huiming temple is located on Chimu mountain in Hexi Town of Jingning, with an altitude of nearly 800 meters. There is no bus from the town to Huiming temple. It's an hour's walk on the mountain road. Huiming temple was built in memory of Huiming, an eminent monk of Tang Dynasty. It was completely destroyed during the cultural revolution after more than 1000 years. Huiming temple, which started to be built this year, is modeled on Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou. It is not large in scale. It is backed by 100 mu terraced fields and tea gardens. The surrounding scenery is very beautiful. Huiming temple is a quiet and comfortable place for the She people.

The most obvious feature of the temple now is one monk and one temple. The statues of Guanyin in front of the temple are carved by the host himself, with exquisite workmanship. There are stone steps next to the temple. When you reach the end of the stone steps, you can experience the poetic feelings of "when you will be on the top of the mountain, you can see all the mountains at a glance".

Baiyuxian tea

There is an ancient white tea growing behind Huiming temple, which is called "immortal tea", "orchid tea" and "Huiming tea king". This tea was available when monk Huiming built the temple in the Tang Dynasty.

"On the Grand View of tea" contains "white tea is a kind of tea.". Different from the regular tea, its Tiao Fu elucidation, its leaf Ying thin, cliff forest, occasionally born. Although it is not dominated by human power, there are only four or five families, and the living are only one or two. The production ends in two or three hips If you want to make it delicate and transport it properly, you can see it clearly from the outside and from the inside. If jade is in the Pu, it is incomparable. " Therefore, it is said that white tea is the first.

"Dongxi tea record" says: "there are seven names of tea, one is white leaf tea, which is very popular among the people The buds and leaves are like paper, and people think tea is auspicious. " Although white tea has existed since ancient times, it is rare and precious since ancient times because most of the white tea only opens and does not bear seeds. Even if it has its offspring, it is very easy to differentiate, and rarely can maintain the albino characteristics of white tea mother tree.

It is said that there are three immortal teas in Huiming temple. Every spring, they turn white, which is very magical. From afar, the whole tree is as white as a robe; from near, the leaves are as white as jade, crystal clear. In the 1950s, the township cadres at that time found a tree with a diameter as thick as a bowl mouth and a crown more than ten feet large. The green leaves picked from the tree were fried and dried. The aroma was strong and the tea soup was very fresh and sweet. For the sake of the grand commune, it was transplanted to Dajun specialty farm in 1958 and died. The villagers of Huiming Temple never forget this. For more than ten years since then, the villagers have kept silent about the white tea. However, there is still a message about white tea in Huiming temple, which is still vaguely spread among the people. In the early 1970s, in order to excavate folk treasures and restore Huiming tea, which was awarded the first-class certificate and gold medal at the Panama International Exposition in 1915, the relevant departments of the county sent tea technicians to Huiming village to eat and live with the villagers, and established feelings. Therefore, the villagers informed Huiming Village that there was a white tea tree on the mountain behind the old temple, that is, the white tea tree Today's ancient white tea. This tea, the older the tree is, only blooms, but has no effective fruit. It is very magical that it has been living alone for a long time. Scientific and technological personnel feel lucky and cherish after observation. After that, a large number of scientific and technological personnel and tea lovers, have carried out a variety of breeding experiments, has not been successful.

Since the discovery of "Anji white tea" in Northern Zhejiang in the 1980s, the white tea of Huiming temple has aroused people's interest again. The propagation experiments with cutting as the main form have been carried out one after another, and the Guben ancient tea has been seriously damaged. After 1994, the tea garden was contracted by Qier tea company (formerly Huiming Tea Development Co., Ltd.) to protect and manage it. At the same time, under the guidance of relevant experts, the technical personnel of the company also carried out a series of breeding experiments. Until 2002, the company hired Professor Luo Yaoping from tea science department of Zhejiang University. In June 2002, the company invited him to Huiming temple for guidance, and applied the successful tea grafting technology to white tea of Huiming temple. After that, the company's technical personnel created the "cover bag humidification" on the basis of it, which greatly improved the survival rate and started industrial production. Not long before the grafting in 2002, Qier company also visited huimingsi village and huishantou natural village to know that there was a variant white tea. Therefore, the company obtained a small number of variant white tea branches unknown to the world for grafting.

In view of the unique features and rich cultural connotations of Jingning white tea, Liu zusheng, professor and doctoral supervisor of tea science department of Zhejiang University and former Secretary General of Zhejiang tea society, named the white tea of Huiming temple in Jingning as "baiyuxian tea" in 2003.

According to the preliminary observation, baiyuxian tea has three characteristics: ① the highest amino acid, 7.4%; the best combination of contents, phenol ammonia ratio of 2.9; ② the leaves are white, the stems and veins are white, crystal clear, white for more than 50 days; ③ the dried tea is particularly green, fresh and sweet taste, strong aroma.

Baiyuxian tea, born in the ancient and mysterious she village, has many beautiful myths and legends. It integrates the she culture and tea culture and becomes a treasure of Jingning. It will benefit the world and let more people appreciate her charming style.

Gold Award Huiming

Among all the tea varieties, Huiming tea has never been named after a person. Huiming tea is unique, because of its profound Buddhist culture. It is said that Huiming entered Zhejiang Province by water. On the boat, he met a merchant of Yueqing. Seeing that Huiming was a family member, he gave a lot of silver cloth. Huiming had nothing in his hand. He suddenly remembered that he still had some white tea on him. He took out three pieces and gave them to the benefactor. He said: if there is an emergency at home, you can take one piece and drink it with water. Coincidentally, the merchant came home the next day to catch up with his wife's dystocia, and the whole family turned around in a hurry. In a hurry, the merchant thought of what Huiming had said and quickly made a piece of Huiming tea to drink. Sure enough, his wife gave birth to a baby boy.

When Huiming came to Jingning, he had only three white tea seeds left on him, so he scattered them on Nanshan. The next year, tea trees were in full bloom, so Huiming tea got its name. Today, there is still a white tea planted by Huiming outside huimingsi mountain. It produces only two teas a year, which is more precious than Dahongpao in Wuyishan.

What is more unknown is that Huiming tea, together with the famous Maotai liquor, once participated in the Panama International Exposition held in the United States in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, and won the gold medal (according to the records of Jingning County in the Republic of China: "tea is available in all districts, especially Huiming temple and Maotou village. In the fourth year of the Republic of China, Huiming tea won the first-class certificate and gold medal of the Panama International Exposition of the United States The output of the whole city is about 40-50 thousand jin. The report on the investigation of Lishui and other eight counties in Zhejiang Province of the Republic of China also contains: "Jingning County: the production of Jingyi plants Tea comes second, with an annual output of about 20000 Jin, and its quality is very good. It was awarded first-class gold medal in Panama last year. Later, the gold medal trophy somehow lost, which is still a mystery. During the next hundred years, Huiming tea was like a hermit.

Huimingsi Village

Huiming village is a She Nationality Village on Chi Mu mountain, known as "shanha people", which means she people living on the mountain. Hundreds of families are scattered in the front of Huiming temple. The houses of She people are very primitive. Most of them are adobe walls, wooden structures and black tile roofs, which are hidden in the verdant green. They are good places for taking pictures everywhere. Lei and LAN are the most common surnames of the She nationality. The ancestors of the She nationality are in Fujian Province. The clothing of the She nationality is relatively simple. Women wear silver ornaments on their heads, and their coats are slanted open-ended with embroidered necks and cheeks, which is very similar to the clothing style of the Manchu and Mongolian nationalities.

When they enter the She people's home, they are very enthusiastic and will make a cup of tea for the guests at the first time. In the simple folk songs of the She people, there is a song like this: people will make tea when they leave Liaohe, and there is no need to ask for a bowl of strong tea. Not to mention that, we also need to serve our guests with two homemade snacks: pickled ginger slices and dried sweet potato. Ginger slices are used to warm the stomach and dispel cold, while dried sweet potato can relieve irritability and satisfy hunger. This is the most original and authentic way to drink Huiming tea.

In fact, both Huiming temple and Huiming tea are integrated into Huiming village. You can't talk about them separately. They have formed an organic whole since ancient times: Huiming temple is full of Buddhist love for she people, Huiming tea is full of She people's customs, and Huiming village is the source of all living water and life here.

tourist guide

Transportation of the scenic spot:

From Beijing, you can take train T31 to Hangzhou. From Hangzhou, you can take a long-distance bus to Lishui City. It takes 3.5 hours to transfer from Lishui to Jingning. Or take k101 from Beijing to Wenzhou and transfer to Jingning for 2 hours.

Tourist accommodation:

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