Written in front: At the beginning of spring, the tea mountains are green and picturesque, and the hard-working tea farmers are stepping on the morning dew to pick the "golden buds" to get rich;
After breakfast, the tea market is bustling, and the tea trade from south to north is bustling;
In the afternoon, the tea farmers came to sell the tea picked for a day, and the hard sweat and the faint fragrance of tea were intertwined into a vibrant rural scene;
When the night is low, under the starlight, the sound of the tea enterprise machine is soft, and the lights are bright, reflecting the silhouette of the workers' hard work.
From the tea mountain to the tea market, from the tea merchant to the tea enterprise, every picture is full of vitality, and they together build a beautiful scroll of Pu'an tea industry.
On the tea mountain, tea farmers are busy picking fresh green tea.
In the early spring morning of late February, the breeze blows through the Pu'an Hill, and more than 180,000 acres of emerald green tea trees are like waves surging. In the air, the intoxicating aroma of tea fills the air, like a pot of fragrant wine prepared by nature, releasing the most mellow tribute of spring.
At dawn, with the chill of spring, Guo Tingmei, who lives in Chayuan Street, invited five or six partners to appear in the tea mountain, and they only wanted one thing: to pick the fresh tea that first woke up on the branches. "Tea picking is a big event for us in Pu'an. The earliest spring tea in the country is here every year, and tea merchants from all over the country come to buy it, and the big guys are counting on selling it at a good price. ”
Huge dividends give rise to economic consensus.
In recent years, under the guidance and support of the local people, almost every villager here grows tea, ranging from 1 to 2 acres to hundreds of acres. Early spring tea, pay attention to a fresh, not only to race against time, early picking, but also to look at the quality of the speak, buds to pick a good price in order to get a good price. "After so many years, everyone is familiar with tea picking, and one person can pick more than 1 pound of tea in the morning. ”
At the foot of the tea mountain, Chen Changhua (second from left) is buying tea green.
Some large tea growers have a wide area of tea plantations, and they will also hire people to pick them. Many villagers who work outside the village take advantage of the early spring tea picking season to return to their hometowns, one is to ask for the harvest from their own tea gardens, and the other is to do some small work for large households. The wages for helping people pick tea are calculated by piece, according to different **, usually picking 1 kg of tea can get 30 to 50 yuan, and you can earn nearly 100 yuan a day.
At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Xinghua, a villager who finished picking tea green tea before Sister Guo, filled a plastic bag full of workers and tea leaves picked by himself, and then weighed the scales of Chen Changhua, the owner of a local processing factory who was waiting for tea to be harvested on the mountainside.
When riding a motorcycle to the three-way intersection at the foot of the tea mountain, Chen Changhua, who came here to collect tea green every afternoon, had been surrounded by a circle of people, men, women and children, some filled a trunk full of tea green, and some carried a bamboo basket and lined up to collect tea green.
Chen Changhua, who was in the innermost part, was busy looking at the goods, ** and weighing, and after the price was negotiated, the partner who was carrying a satchel full of cash on the side immediately paid, or cash or WeChat, and the tea farmers smiled.
You have 3 pounds here, 210 yuan. ”
A pound is only 70 yuan? Look at it again, my quality is not bad. A woman in her early 40s said with a little anxiety.
Yesterday's average price was still one hundred and twenty-three, and today ** has dropped a lot, and it's the same if you go elsewhere. Chen Changhua replied, and he had already taken the tea green from the next tea farmer in his hand.
Chen Changhua (right) is settling tea fees for tea farmer Qin Xinghua (left).
A few minutes later, it was finally Qin Xinghua's turn. He gently removed a ** bag of tea green from his shoulder, put it on the weighing table, and the pointer stopped at 22 kilograms.
Lao Chen, help me take a look. Chen Changhua immediately squatted down, first looked at the appearance, the color of the green buds was small, and then grabbed a small handful with his hand, approached and smelled, the tea was fragrant.
Qin Xinghua asked expectantly, "How is it?" ”
It's not bad, you can charge 80 yuan a catty, a total of 1760 yuan, your tea is ** today. ”
Yes! "Back and forth, business deals. "Thanks, I'll be back tomorrow. Qin Xinghua happily put a wad of red cash in his pocket, got on the motorcycle, and returned satisfied.
At the foot of the tea mountain, Chen Changhua (first from left) is buying tea green.
In just thirty or forty minutes, dozens of tea farmers came to trade tea green tea one after another. The partner's white satchel filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash gradually "thinned", but the tea purchased on the side increased exponentially.
Approaching 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the tea farmers gradually dispersed, and Chen Changhua took out the account book to compare them one by one, "I collected about 600 catties today and spent nearly 50,000 yuan." After settling the accounts, just as the two of them, who had been busy for a while, were also about to go home, an old man who looked seventy or eighty years old was carrying a bag of tea and asked, "Do you still collect it?" Looking at this rickety figure, he hesitated for 2 seconds and replied, "Take it, bring it." ”
In the twilight, the sunset hit the faces of the two, reflecting a golden luster, just like the beautiful countryside that is prosperous because of tea.
Chen Changhua opened his own tea processing factory, it was the tea picking season, more than 20 machines were running around the clock, and his family and workers worked in two shifts, racing against time to make the purchased tea into finished tea, and the next morning to sell it at the tea market.
There are more than 200 such processing plants in the local area. The scale of Chen Changhua's family is not large, but he is honest and honest, and the price is fair, even if his family collects too much and can't finish processing, he will not easily refuse the villagers who come to ask him to collect tea. came and went, everyone came to him, "When it was prosperous, I hadn't gone out to collect tea green, and there were two long queues at the door with tea green on my back." ”
Chen Changhua's small tea processing factory in Pu'an County.
Chen Changhua began to get in touch with tea at the age of 16 and was one of the first to participate in tea processing. In the 90s of the 20th century, the transportation and logistics were not as developed as they are now, and the sales of tea all relied on carrying back all the way, first taking the shuttle bus from Pu'an to Guiyang, and then taking the train to Hangzhou. Manpower is limited, and he can only bring about 100 catties of tea at a time.
Chen Changhua spoke quickly, and when he mentioned the bitterness of the past, he was light and light. But in the moment of happiness, he was deeply impressed. "When I got married, I had a debt of 3,000 yuan, and my relatives were anxious for me, but I didn't expect to pay off the debt in the first season of making tea after marriage, and I saved 3,000 yuan. After tasting the sweetness, he has been moving forward bravely on the road of making tea since then.
He will delve into it. Others commented on Chen Changhua. Making tea depends on both the machine and the technology. When Chen Changhua first used a machine to make tea, he didn't know how to grasp the amount of ingredients, and as a result, the dried tea tasted very poor. Later, I slowly groped for myself to know how much to put each time, "I tried one value at a time, and finally determined the temperature that I thought would be the most fragrant." ”
Inside the processing plant, workers are sifting tea greens.
Between the words, Chen Changhua is full of confidence in his tea-making skills. "Don't look at my small territory, there are 20,000 catties of dry tea packaged and sold from here every year, and the annual income is about 400,000 yuan. In this way, Chen Changhua relied on a piece of tea to make his life more prosperous, and he also successfully provided all four children in his family to college.
In this industrial chain that revolves around tea, Chen Changhua is like a transit station, purchasing fresh and high-quality raw materials from tea farmers, and selling finished and semi-finished tea to tea merchants from all over the country after production, so that the unique charm of Pu'an tea can fly into tens of millions of homes.
From one small clue one can see what is coming. With the vigorous development of the tea industry, the large-scale management of Pu'an Tea Garden and the rich and diverse tea varieties enable tea farmers to not only pick precious early spring tea, but also make full use of summer and autumn tea resources to achieve continuous production throughout the year, thus ensuring stable economic returns.
Nowadays, from tea garden management, tea picking, primary processing to deep processing, to brand building and market sales, tea farmers not only have fresh leaf sales revenue, but also obtain profit sharing through cooperatives or enterprise cooperation in the sale of deep-processed products.
Tea green paving. This cup of tea carries their belief and strength to expand their livelihood and run towards a better life, and also embodies their deep cultural identity of "planting tea" and "making tea".
In the land of Pu'an, countless tea farmers and tea people, because tea has broadened the dimension of life, their days are like the tea in that cup, plain and sweet, over the years, more and more rich and fragrant, long and moving.
Co-ordinator: Min Jie.
Guizhou ** Tianyan News reporter.
Performed by Zhou Yameng Wei Yuxin.
Edited by Xu Fenfang.
Second instance Li Jie.
Third trial Liu Dan.