China News Service, Taizhou, April 3 (Fan Yubin and Lu Fenlu) Huading offering tea, live streaming of spring tea, handmade ancient tea, tea auction, agricultural product exhibition, tea culture research, tea garden Hanfu tour... On April 3, "Millennium" Tea ancestors bring incense to ten thousand mu of tea sources to the future"——The 2022 "Cloud" Tea Opening Festival in Shiliang Town, Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province kicked off at the Xuri Tea Garden in Shiliang Town.

  This year's Tea Festival takes the scene of Tea Mountain as the world stage, and adopts online "cloud live broadcast" throughout the whole process to display Tiantai Mountain Yunwu Tea in an all-round way from production, supply and sales, so as to improve the influence and competitiveness of the tea industry.

Red Village Sow Tea Plantation Live.

Photo by Yu Danhua

  Tiantai Mountain is one of the famous tea-producing areas, and its history of artificial tea planting is also the earliest in the Jiangnan area.

  On that day, the tea trees in the tea garden were verdant and green, accompanied by the melodious tea-picking dance, and the tea-picking girls were busy picking new greens.

Either pressing, turning, kneading, or rubbing... The picked tea leaves are hand-fried by the tea maker on the spot, and the tea fragrance is soon overflowing.

  "Shiliang Town, which is located in Tiantai Mountain, has a large temperature difference between morning and evening. It is surrounded by clouds and mist all the year round, and has an excellent ecological environment. The alpine cloud mist tea produced is one of the finest teas. At the tea opening festival, 6 two quality teas were auctioned for a total of 22,500 yuan." "In Yunwu Mountain When you have good tea, you can drink Shuangxi Linjia!" At the event, village secretaries, internet celebrities, and tea farmers turned into red village broadcasters, introducing Shiliang tea culture to netizens and recommending local high-quality spring tea.

  On the tea opening festival, beautiful girls dressed in Han costumes strolled leisurely and picked tea in the tea garden, which became a dazzling landscape of the tea garden.

The children who studied were gathered around the handmade milk tea DIY platform, and felt the wonder of making tea by themselves.

Tea processing workshop.

Photo by Yu Danhua

  As the saying goes, "Good mountains and good water produce good tea". The tea industry is one of the leading agricultural industries in Shiliang Town, Tiantai County.

  And the "going out" Tiantai Mountain Yunwu Tea has won the honors of Chinese Culture Famous Tea, Chinese Time-honored Brand, Zhejiang Famous Brand, and Zhejiang Regional Famous Agricultural Products. Tea Expo Green Tea Gold Award.

  "Good tea depends on a good industry." Shiliang Town, Tiantai County is a strong agricultural town with tea characteristics in Zhejiang Province. Chen Zhaowei, the deputy mayor of the town, said, "We will adhere to the 'integration of primary and tertiary industries' and use the tea industry as a support for the town's economy. One of the leading industries for development, scientific and rational division of tea planting, processing, circulation, public services and other functional areas."

The scenery of tea gardens in Shiliang Town, Tiantai, Zhejiang.

Photo by Yu Danhua

  In recent years, Tiantai County has taken the tea industry as the main project of rural revitalization, innovated and established the order-based business model of "enterprise + base + farmers", stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers to increase their income and become rich, consolidated the achievements of poverty alleviation, and allowed tea farmers to concentrate on growing tea. Tea, do not worry about the sales of tea.

  In Shiliang Town, many farmers have voluntarily eliminated low-yielding bamboo gardens and replaced them with tea plantations, adding 1,000 mu of tea gardens every year.

In addition, the town encourages tea companies to open brick-and-mortar stores such as tea houses, teahouses, and specialty stores, and supports villagers to develop new types of circulation such as e-commerce, live broadcast, direct sales, and mail order, such as Red Village Broadcasting, and has embarked on a path of "one leaf enriches the people". new way.

  According to statistics, there are 3,700 tea farmers in Shiliang Town, the main producing area of ​​Yunwu tea in Tiantai Mountain, accounting for 65% of the total number of farmers. In 2021, the tea output value of this town is 75.8 million yuan, and tea has become the "golden leaf" of the local rural revitalization in the new era.

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