China News Service, Guiyang, March 31 (Zhou Yanling) At the Shenque Tea House by Baihua Lake in Guiyang, Guizhou, Meng Li, a "post-90s" girl wearing a horse-faced skirt, sat under the tea pavilion on the top of the mountain, warming cups, waking up tea, and brewing tea. Make and serve tea, while friends beside you accompany them with the fragrance of tea and the music of their musical instruments. For a time, the tea pavilion was filled with the fragrance of tea and the melodious sound of guzheng.
As a lover of tea culture, this is Mengli’s second spring trip to the Tea Mountain in 2024. Last time, she and her friends picked tea in the tea garden and took photos. This time, she brought the tea set to the tea garden to enjoy the "that touch of green" in spring.
On March 29, Meng Li was making tea in the tea pavilion of Shenque Tea House on the bank of Baihua Lake in Guiyang. Photo by Zhou Yanling
With the advent of spring tea, the immersive experience of "tea picking tour" and the "tea inquiry tour" of studying tea culture continue to become popular. According to Mafengwo’s big data, visiting tea gardens and tasting spring tea have become the “dark horse” of the spring tourism market, with popularity rising by 110%.
Walking into Shenque Tea House, a light fragrance hits your nostrils, which makes you feel relaxed and happy. Looking around, more than a thousand acres of tea gardens continue to spread to the top of the mountain. Among the lush green tea ridges, groups of tourists carrying tea baskets shuttle through, picking green buds from the trees.
"You can take photos and check in at the tea garden, and you can also experience tea picking, tea making, tea tasting, and even tea art performances and tea banquets." The person in charge of Shenque Tea House told reporters that in recent years, during the tea picking season, many young people have Come to Shangshan Tea Mountain for a spring outing, drink tea, and experience being a "tea farmer" for a day.
On March 29, a tea maker demonstrated handmade tea making skills to tourists at the Shenque Tea Farm on the banks of Baihua Lake in Guiyang. Photo by Zhou Yanling
Meitan, the first county in Guizhou’s tea industry, has an existing tea garden area of 600,000 acres and a contiguous tea garden area of nearly 43,000 acres. In recent days, this "green sea" has attracted tourists in droves. Lisa Wu from Hong Kong is one of them. During the day, she and her friends visited tea gardens and experienced tea making. In the evenings, they drank tea and chatted at the camping base in the tea gardens.
"I have always thought that drinking tea is just a matter of 'taking a sip of tea'. This time I came to the tea garden to learn about the tea making process, and found that there are many ways to make handmade tea." Wu Lisa said that she would bring the tea she made by herself to Hong Kong. Family tasting.
In order to allow tourists to further experience the charm of tea gardens, Meitan County has also launched a tea garden "adoption" model, which satisfies adopters' pursuit of embracing tea gardens through "funding for adoption, remote tracking, and harvesting tea leaves." At present, 500 acres of tea gardens in Xihe Town, Meitan County have been "adopted" by urbanites, many of whom are young people.
Pick a basket of spring tea, make a pot of handmade tea, have a full tea banquet, and watch a tea art performance... As young people visit tea gardens, live in tea houses, and watch tea scenes, many places in China have transformed "tea areas into scenic spots." , tea gardens turn into parks, tea mountains turn into gold mountains.”
According to Luo Yihong, deputy director of the Guizhou Tea Industry Development Research Institute, more and more young people are joining the tea drinking army and going to tea mountains to find the source of the delicious spring tea and experience the "new Chinese style" life, which reflects the contemporary Young people's pursuit of healthy life and love of traditional culture will accelerate the integrated development of "tea tourism" and will also drive consumption upgrades in the tea industry. (over)