Ya'an Observation Zhang Chao.
Knock-knock-", with a crisp drum, on March 3, the Lizhen Mengding Mountain Manna Spring Tea Conference and the 2024 Mengding Mountain Tea Area "First Back Basket Tea" listing event was held in Chengdu, which also marked that the tea gardens in the Mengding Mountain Tea Area of Ya'an Famous Mountain have entered the picking period one after another, and the freshest fresh tea this spring is officially listed.
The scene of the event. Every year, when spring tea sprouts, tea merchants and tea companies from all over the world gather in the Mengding Mountain Tea Area to carefully select their favorite products. At the event site, the "Lizhen Yuan" series of new products were unveiled, and Mingshan District also specially launched a customized tea ceremony, and invited tea lovers to "adopt an acre of tea" in the authenticity protection tea garden above 800 meters above sea level and more than 2,380 acres, so as to enhance the interaction and contact with tea people in various forms and boost the development of the tea industry.
The famous mountainous area of Ya'an City has 3920,000 acres of tea gardens, the per capita tea garden area ranks first in the country, the tea output ranks in the forefront of the province's tea-producing areas, and the regional public brand value of "Mengding Mountain Tea" reaches 496 billion yuan. Twenty years ago, the "Mengding Mountain Declaration on World Tea Culture" was issued, which determined the historical status of Mengding Mountain as the "Holy Mountain of World Tea Culture". On the day of the event in 2023, more than 5,000 tea merchants across the country gathered at the foot of Mengding Mountain, with a peak daily trading volume of 20,000 kilograms of tea.
The fusion of tea and poetry.
100 kilometers away, the clouds are steaming in the 10,000 acres of tea plantations in Mengding Mountain, and the tea farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather to pick spring tea, and the tea trading markets have also ushered in the most lively time of the year. In the Shuanghe Tea Trading Market in Hongxing Town, Mingshan District, the daily trading volume has reached nearly 300,000 kilograms, and many foreign tea merchants also come here to purchase fresh tea.
With cultural innovation, tea tourism integration, and brand building, Mingshan District fully excavates its unique core connotation of tea ancestor culture, tribute tea culture, Zen tea culture, tea horse culture, and tea art culture, so that more people can understand and appreciate the unique charm of Mengding mountain tea culture. At the same time, the famous mountain has built a 150-kilometer "China Zhimei Tea Garden Greenway" to connect Mengding Mountain, Baizhang Lake, Niu Nianping and other scenic spots, through the development of tea tourism, tea meals, tea culture experience, tea garden leisure and vacation and other agricultural tourism products, and gradually realize the new situation of tea tourism integration and development of "tea area into scenic spots, tea gardens into parks, and sightseeing into experience".
Zhong Guolin, secretary general of the Mingshan District Tea Industry Association, introduced that Mengding manna needs to pick a bud and a leaf in early spring to show raw materials, which are made by stall drying and "three stir-fried and three kneading", and the tea is tender and green in color, oily, fragrant and sweet, and is the main representative product of Mengding mountain tea. Recently, Mingshan District has implemented the protection of the authenticity of the core area of Mengding camellia, focusing on protecting precious varieties such as "Laochuan tea" from five aspects: ecological protection, variety authenticity, skill fax, cultural authenticity, and quality fidelity, and making every effort to create iconic and leading products of Mengding camellia, and launching the authenticity representative tea brand "Lizhen Mengding Mountain Nectar".
In the Mengding Mountain Tea Area of Mingshan District, tea farmers are picking spring tea.
The poet Liang Ping shared his feelings about Mengding camellia and the experience of transforming tea trees into poetry, and co-created with AI poet Zhizuo in the early stage to customize 2,380 poems for 2,380 acres of original tea garden. The poetry festival plans to publish the first collection of Mengding camellia poems on the "4.23 World Book Day", from March 3rd to April 3rd, the collection channel will be open to the whole society, and guests from all over the world will be invited to Mengding Mountain Spring Festival in the name of poetry.