China News Service, Ningde, March 24 (Reporter Lv Qiaoqin Ye Mao) On the 24th, the 2021 "Tanyang Gongfu" Black Tea Tea Festival was held in Shekou Town, Fu'an City, Ningde, Fujian, the birthplace of China's century-old black tea "Tanyang Gongfu" Many people in the tea industry celebrated tea and discussed tea together.
Fu'an City Government Deputy Mayor Zhang Weiming stated that the tea festival will be held in the birthplace of "Tanyang Gongfu" in order to use tea as a medium to make friends, sing brands, and seek common development.
The picture shows the gong beating for tea.
Photo by Ye Mao
At the scene, Zheng Zhanxiong, director of the Standing Committee of the Fu'an Municipal People’s Congress, announced the opening of the tea. 2 national award-winning tea masters sifted the tea. 30 tea masters uniformly dressed and formed a square array, using the prepared tea sieve to install the freshly picked tea. Toucha performs a tea ceremony performance.
The dance "Tea Mountain Love Song", the original ecological song "Tea Song", the female chorus "Sing a Folk Song for the Party", and the song "Tan Yang Gongfu Tea" were performed in succession.
During the period, the "Fuchadai" credit granting ceremony, the "Fuchadai" signing ceremony, and the start-up ceremony of the automatic production line of Tanyang Gongfu tea processing were also held.
The picture shows the dance "Tea Mountain Love Song".
Photo by Ye Mao
Zhang Weiming said that tea is the civilian production industry in Fu'an. Since its establishment in 1851, "Tanyang Gongfu" has won many honors and is the first Chinese well-known trademark in the field of black tea and the first Chinese geographical indication certification trademark.
Fu'an City is the birthplace of "Tanyang Gongfu" and also has the reputation of "Hometown of Tea in China".
The city’s existing tea gardens cover an area of about 300,000 mu. In 2020, the city’s gross tea output will be 28,400 tons, with an output value of 1.76 billion yuan and a comprehensive output value of 9 billion yuan.
In 1915, "Tan Yang Gongfu" won the Gold Medal of the Panama Universal Exposition, and its reputation was greatly shocked. It was designated by the British Royal Family as the exclusive tea supply; 100 years later, in 2015, in the context of the construction of the "Belt and Road", "Tan Yang Gongfu" became The only black tea brand in China was selected as the "Global Partner" and "Designated Tea" for the China Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015.
The picture shows the credit granting ceremony of "Fuchadai".
Photo by Ye Mao
Located in Shekou Town, Fu’an City Tanyang Tea Farm, founded in 1958, has been focusing on the production of "Tanyang Gongfu" black tea. There are 1800 mu of pollution-free tea gardens.
In May 2020, Tanyang Tea Farm in Fu'an City introduced a smart tea garden integrated management platform to realize the digital management of tea gardens such as GIS (Geographic Information System) display of the park layout and visualization of the production environment.
The director of Tanyang Tea Farm Zheng Mingxing said that the next step is to gradually spread the "smart tea garden" to the surrounding tea gardens, and launch customized tea gardens, recruit loving tea garden owners, so that tea garden owners can experience tea activities while drinking tea with peace of mind. (Finish)