China News Service, Ya'an, March 28 (Liu Gang) On March 27, the 20th Mengding Mountain Tea Cultural Tourism Festival opened in Mingshan District, Ya'an City, Sichuan. At the Tea Culture Tourism Festival, the Mengding Mountain Tea History Museum in Mingshan District held the "Forbidden City Tribute Tea Back to Mengding Mountain" event.
"Forbidden City Tribute Tea" returns to Mengding Mountain. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Mingshan District Committee
It is understood that Mengding Mountain is the earliest place with written records of artificial tea cultivation. It has two super IPs: the birthplace of world tea culture and the birthplace of world tea civilization. Mengshan tea is one of the categories of tribute tea with a long tradition. It has been recorded in official history as early as the Tang Dynasty. Mengshan tea became a tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty and did not decline until the Qing Dynasty.
According to Wang Yuegong, deputy director of the Palace Museum, the tribute tea from various places in the Qing Dynasty that was once sealed within palace restrictions has now become a unique cultural relic of the Palace Museum. These teas are generally well packaged, and some of the seals have not yet been opened. The outer packaging is accompanied by a large amount of original information, including the name of the tea, the tribute time, the place of origin, etc., which has become the best physical object for contemporary people to understand and understand the tea production and tribute tea system of the Qing Dynasty. witness. The exhibition "Forbidden City Tribute Tea Returns to Mengding Mountain" selected a total of 12 pieces of Qing Dynasty tribute tea from Mengding Mountain in 7 categories collected by the Palace Museum and brought them back to their hometown of Ya'an.
exhibition site. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Mingshan District Committee
"These exhibits include all the tribute tea varieties produced in Mengding Mountain in the Qing Dynasty, and comprehensively display the appearance of Mengding Mountain tribute tea in the Qing Dynasty. Through this exhibition, everyone can have an in-depth understanding of the historical origins of Mengding Mountain tribute tea. and cultural connotation." Wang Yuegong said that tribute tea is the highest level representative of ancient Chinese tea. Thousands of years ago, the ancients traveled thousands of miles to bring it to the imperial city to worship the royal family. Nowadays, these Qing Dynasty Mengding Mountain tribute tea relics from the Palace Museum return to their long-lost hometown at the foot of Mengding Mountain to “find their roots” during the spring tea picking season. (over)