Huqiu Town, Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Huqiu town

Huqiu Town, located in the south of the county, is located at 25 ° 00 ′ N and 117 ° 59 ′ E. It is adjacent to Guanqiao town and Longmen town in the East, Xiping town and CHANGKENG town in the west, Daping town and Fengyang town in Changtai District in the south, Shangqing town and Penglai town in the north. It is 27 kilometers away from Anxi County, 75 kilometers away from Quanzhou City, 80 kilometers away from Xiamen City, and only 110 kilometers away from Zhangzhou city. Provincial Highway 207 runs through the whole territory, and highways extend in all directions, fast and convenient.

In 2017, the administrative area was 16177 hectares, with 36783 permanent residents.

On December 24, 2019, it will be included in the list of national rural governance demonstration towns.

Local conditions

Huqiu has always been famous for its four scents: tea, flowers, tobacco and Buddhism. Here the fragrance of tea is elegant, the fragrance of Osmanthus fragrans, the fragrance of sun cured tobacco, and the fragrance of Buddha. It has a good ecology, beautiful scenery, simple folk customs and rich cultural heritage, which is praised by tourists.

It is a place of great harmony. Huqiu town is located in the south of Anxi. It is a famous tea town with mountains and waters, and a good place for Anxi tea culture, historic sites, pilgrimage and leisure tourism. It is located in the center of the "Golden Triangle of Southern Fujian". It is about 100 kilometers away from Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou respectively. Provincial highway 207 runs through the whole area, with increasingly perfect infrastructure and convenient transportation. It is the main tea production base of Anxi County, the hometown of Oolong tea in China.

Huqiu is a hilly area with subtropical monsoon climate, abundant rainfall, mist and haze, warm and comfortable, fertile soil, and excellent natural conditions. It is the main production area of "four famous teas" of Anxi Tieguanyin, Benshan, huangjingui and hairy crab, the birthplace of national famous teas huangjingui and bergamot, and also the national breeding base of tea varieties. There are fangting village, which is the first osmanthus village in East China, and Miao Hou, a famous tea production base in Anxi.

Huqiu has a long history of culture. As early as the song and Yuan Dynasties, Huqiu was called xinkangli. It has many beautiful mountains, beautiful scenery, rich tourism resources and many places of interest. There are hongenyan and qihuyan tourist pilgrimage scenic spots built in the Southern Song Dynasty, the tomb of Lin Sihuan, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty, and the puppet opera introduced from Quanzhou to Jinbang more than 100 years ago, and the immortal opera from the Qing Dynasty Taizu boxing in Jingcun, as well as wine bottle bonsai culture and other folk arts. These important intangible cultural heritages deduce Huqiu's prosperous civilization for thousands of years, annotate Huqiu's profound cultural heritage, interpret the profound connotation of Huqiu's "landscape tea town", and all describe Huqiu's past style. Huqiu is also a famous overseas Chinese area and ancestral home of Taiwan compatriots in Anxi. According to incomplete statistics, the number of overseas Chinese mainly distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries has reached more than 50000, and the number of Taiwan compatriots is nearly 200000. The relatives of those who travel abroad are close to mulberry trees and love the two places. They are an important force that can not be ignored in supporting the construction of tea villages.

Basic introduction

Huqiu Town, subordinate to Anxi County, Fujian Province, covers an area of cultivated land of about 22000 mu, mountainous area of 10500 ha, woodland area of more than 8300 ha, and tea garden area of 800 ha. It is the hometown of golden osmanthus, the birthplace of special tea bergamot, the main tea producing area of Anxi, one of the main scenic spots of Anxi tea culture and ancient pilgrimage tourism, and the main ancestral home of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Legend of town name

The name of Huqiu evolved from Huqiu.

According to folklore, in ancient times, there was a big lake in the area of Huqiu. In a flash flood, the disaster was critical, and the flood was about to overflow Xingren Bay. At this time, the Jade Emperor sent niushen to open the gap in Xingren Bay, so that the flood subsided quickly. But in order to save people, niushen fell into the mud and became a stone ox. Later, in order to commemorate niushen, people built Xingren temple in Xingren Bay, and called the area in Xingren bay "Huqiu". I do not know when, "Huqiu" evolved into "Huqiu", which is still in use today.

Historical evolution

In history, the organizational system and subordination of Huqiu changed a lot.

In song and Yuan Dynasties, it was xinkangli, Jide township.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the new Kangli of zhongliuli.

In the Republic of China, it belonged to Chonglong District, the Fourth District, the third district and Chongxin district. In 1945, it belonged to Xinkang Township and Baoxi township.

After the founding of new China, it first belonged to Chongxin District, then to the seventh and eighth District, Xiping district and Zhuyang District, Guanqiao district and Xiping district.

In October 1958, it belonged to Xiping commune;

It belongs to Xiping District in August 1961;

Huqiu people's commune was established in April 1965;

In April 1984, it was changed to township system;

In 1991, it was changed into town system.

At present, it has 18 administrative villages: Huqiu, Hudong, Huxi, Zhuyuan, fangting, Jinbang, Xianjing, Meiting, Fukui, Wenmei, Shaoqing, Lindong, Gaocun, Shishan, Shuangge, Luoyan, meizhuang and shuangdu.

geographical environment

Huqiu is located in hilly area, with subtropical monsoon climate, abundant rainfall, foggy day and night, warm wind, fertile soil, average annual temperature of 21 ℃, annual frost free period of 350 days, and excellent natural conditions. Looking far away, green mountains, green water, grass everywhere, birds and flowers, like a landscape painting of blue water and Danshan. It is also the birthplace of Huang Jingui and Yongchun fingered Buddha. It is the ecological environment of good mountains and good water that has cultivated many famous special tea Huangdan (also known as huangjingui) and bergamot.

Tea specialty

Huang Dan

Huangdan is a famous species of tea, also known as golden osmanthus. It is originated from Huqiu Luoyan. It is another top grade oolong tea with different style from Tieguanyin.

The origin of Huang Dan is said to be: in 1860, a young man named Lin Ziqin married Wang Dan, a woman from Zhuyang village in Xiping. According to local customs, after a month's marriage, the bride returns to her mother's home to "exchange flowers for the moon.". When the bride returns to her husband's home, what her mother's family brings back to her is a "green belt" gift, such as a plant seedling, which symbolizes that it will be handed down from generation to generation and that the children and grandchildren will prosper. Wang's "green belt" consists of two small tea seedlings, which are planted in the garden beside his house. After careful cultivation by his wife, they grow luxuriantly. In the third year, as soon as the Tomb Sweeping Day arrived, the couple picked and made the tea at the right time; after the tea was made, it was brewed without uncovering the Ou cover, which made it fragrant; after uncovering the Ou cover, it made it fragrant. The villagers of zuoshe, a neighbor, came to taste it and cheered repeatedly, calling it "toutianxiang". Year after year, this kind of tea grows more and more. Therefore, tea came from Wang Dan, and the native people used to call it "Wang Dan tea". Because of the homophony of "Wang" and "Huang", "Dan" and "Dan" in Minnan dialect, and the yellow green color and golden water of the tea, "Wang Dan tea" gradually evolved into "Huang Dan tea". In 1871, Luoyan tea merchant Lin Hongde (founder of Jintai tea) sold "Huangdan tea" to Southeast Asian countries. Overseas Chinese scrambled to buy "Huangdan tea", which was in short supply for a time, and "Huangdan tea" became more valuable. After that, Lin Hongde changed his name to "golden osmanthus" according to the color of tea like "golden osmanthus" and strange fragrance like "osmanthus".

The "noble spirit" of golden osmanthus is mainly shown in the "two wonders in the morning". Early in the morning, that is, germination, acquisition and listing. Huangdan spring tea is generally picked in the middle of April, more than 10 days earlier than other varieties and nearly 20 days earlier than Tieguanyin. Two strange, namely the appearance "yellow, uniform, fine", endoplasmic "fragrant, strange, fresh". The string is tight, thin and round, and the color is golden. The fragrance is elegant and fresh, with the fragrance of Osmanthus fragrans. The bottom of the leaves is "green belly with red edge". It is soft and bright. It is known as "you know the Yellow Dan when you smell the fragrance". Therefore, it has the reputation of "first smell the natural fragrance before you taste the innocence". After drinking, full of body fluid, aftertaste, refreshing, relaxed and happy. Golden osmanthus with its unique character and early listing advantages, won the market, favored. In January 1982, the super golden osmanthus produced by Anxi tea factory was rated as high-quality product by the Ministry of Commerce; in 1985, the golden osmanthus was rated as China's famous tea by the Ministry of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery and China tea society, and won the "golden cup award"; in 1986, it was awarded the title of national famous tea by the Ministry of Commerce; in 1988, the "Fengshan" brand super golden osmanthus won the silver award of the first China Food Expo. In recent years, Anxi has held tea king competitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places. The golden osmanthus produced in Huqiu town has won the first and second prizes.

Bergamot

Bergamot, also known as citron species, originated from Huqiu Jinbang qihuyan.

The origin of bergamot is said to be: around the 29th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1690), an old monk riding on Huyan grafted tea branches on citron to become a kind of bergamot. Because the leaves are as big as palm, the leaf surface is twisted and uneven, the mesophyll is thick, and the leaf quality is soft, which is similar to citron leaves, so it is also called citron species. Bergamot tea has wide adaptability, strong resistance, less diseases and insect pests, high yield and quality. Oolong tea is produced in a unique style with fat and strong strips, high aroma and mellow taste; black tea is produced in a good quality with thick red soup and bright red leaves. In 1986, bergamot tea was selected as an improved variety of tea in Fujian Province. The tea was introduced into Yongchun County in large quantities, and became a good variety in charge of the family. There are also a few introduced species in central and eastern Fujian.

Tea seed base

Huqiu is recognized as Quanzhou City tea breeding base. Tea growers adopt the advanced "short cutting method of tea tree", which can not only maintain the characteristics of improved varieties of tea tree, but also have the characteristics of large propagation coefficient, wide source of cuttings, convenient cutting and management in four seasons. Its tea seedlings have developed root system, thick stem and strong leaves, pure varieties, high transplant survival rate, and are welcomed by the majority of tea areas. At present, the annual breeding area of tea seedlings in the town is more than 30 hectares. According to 2.25 million tea seedlings per hectare, 75 million tea seedlings can be produced annually and sold to Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi and other tea producing areas. According to statistics, the annual output value is 12.5 million yuan and the net profit is 9.5 million yuan

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