China News Service, Chengdu, March 26th (Reporter He Shaoqing) "Tea picking is a process that practice makes perfect. You must use both hands, and the skill of your fingertips is also very important." Mentioned, the young leaves of a formed spring tea were quickly picked by Zeng Huizhi, a tea farmer in Hongya, Sichuan.

The tea basket on the tea farmer's waist was quickly filled with green buds before the Ming Dynasty. After the process of fixing, rolling, tightening, and lifting, these slender buds of the year will become cups of tea. to the tea table.

Hongya tea farmers are busy picking tea.

Photo by Zhang Lang

  Spring tea before tomorrow is as precious as gold.

Before the Qingming Festival, it is an important time for spring tea to be listed. As the spring tea with a total area of ​​300,000 mu in Hongya County, Sichuan has entered the harvesting period, the hills and fields can be seen everywhere. Tea picker.

  Zeng Huizhi shook her fingers that had been dyed jet black by the tender buds and said with a hearty smile that recently, she would come to the tea garden to pick tea at 6 o'clock every day, and she had been busy until the night was dark.

Although the tea picking work is hard, it has also brought a lot to Zeng Huizhi. This year, she picked 15 catties of fresh tea buds a day and received a generous reward of 600 yuan. This is a different manifestation of "one or two spring tea and one gold". .

  Including Zeng Huizhi, the development of Hongya tea industry has driven 100,000 local tea farmers to increase their income and become rich.

Zeng Jianqing, a 70-year-old villager in Zhongshan Town, Hongya County, and his wife remodeled the kitchen at home. Some of the funds were obtained from the sale of spring tea not long ago.

Hongya tea farmers are busy picking tea.

Photo by Zhang Lang

  "My family has only two acres of land. The tea market this spring is good, and it can be sold for up to 130 yuan per catty. We have already sold it for more than 2,000 yuan." Zeng Jianqing said, driven by the tea industry, buying a car has become a " It is a common phenomenon”, some people have more than one car, and sometimes they encounter “parking difficulties” when they come to Zhongshan Town to rush to the market.

  At present, Hongya County has 17 tea processing enterprises, 93 professional tea-related cooperatives, 24 family farms, and more than 300 processing workshops, producing four major types of tea: green tea, black tea, dark tea and white tea.

The annual output of dry tea in Hongya County is 35,300 tons, with an output value of 3.9 billion yuan. It has been awarded the "Top 100 Counties in China's Tea Industry" for three consecutive years.

Sichuan Hongya ten thousand mu tea garden is busy with spring picking.

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  In order to turn the young leaves into "golden leaves", Hongya County has also begun to develop the organic tea industry, which has passed the organic certifications of the European Union, Japan, the United States and China.

Many tea varieties have won gold medals at the International Tea Expo for many times, and the products are exported to large and medium cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

  "Now is the time when a large number of tea leaves are sprouting. If you miss this season, the tea leaves will gradually become hollow." Liu Wei, deputy director of the Hongya County Tea Center, said that the spring tea before tomorrow is delicate and cannot be picked mechanically.

At present, it is the peak season of spring tea picking. Every day, 40,000 to 50,000 tea farmers are picking buds on the hilltops and fields at the same time.

With the improvement of living standards, consumers have also put forward higher requirements for tea, and more and more tea farmers have begun to grow green organic tea.

Sichuan Hongya ten thousand mu tea garden is busy with spring picking.

Photo by Anyuan

  In the herbal tea planting base of Shengbang Plantation and Breeding Professional Cooperative in Zhongshan Town, Hongya County, thousands of acres of tea trees have sprung green shoots.

  He Hui, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhongshan Town, introduced that Zhongshan Town is the place where authentic medicinal materials are planted, and also the place where the ancient tea-horse road passes. Can resist market risk.

"This year, we will also try to interplant 1,000 mu of soybeans in young tea gardens to increase grain output and soil fertility, and reduce weed growth. I believe that with the help of these 'golden leaves', the villagers' lives will become more and more prosperous." (End )