China News Service, Sanming, Fujian, May 17 (Ye Qiuyun and Wu Shengwei) In a thousand-acre ecological tea garden in Pingshan Township, Datian County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, the green tea trees are exceptionally verdant in the sun.
Today, this remote mountainous county has been transformed into a well-known "Hometown of High Mountain Tea in China".
In early summer, the second Datian Beauty Tea Festival and the 2021 International Tea Day Fujian Province series of activities were held in Datian County, attracting many tea people and tourists to come and see the charm of the tea village.
According to reports, Datian has a long history of growing tea, dating back to the second year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1164).
The cultivation of high mountain tea in Datian began with the cultivation of tea by monks at Chongshengyan Temple in Daxianfeng. There is an annotation on Datian tea production in the "Kangxi Dictionary".
After generations of unremitting efforts by tea people, the tea planting area in Datian County now reaches 100,000 mu. There are 1,310 tea processing factories, which process 13,700 tons of wool tea annually, and the output value of the entire industry chain is 3.5 billion yuan.
Among the many teas in Daejeon, "Jiangshan Beauty Tea" is particularly well-known.
The picture shows Daejeon Tea Mountain.
Photo by Wu Shengwei
Daejeon is known as "China's Alpine Selenium Valley". There are 175 peaks above 1,000 meters above sea level. The peaks are verdant and good tea is produced in the mountains and clouds.
Moreover, Datian County has similar latitudes and longitudes to Taiwan’s high mountainous areas.
More than 20 years ago, Taiwan-funded tea company Dafangguang Tea Company introduced the "Oriental Beauty" to Neiyang Village, Pingshan Township, allowing this unique "Taiwanese flavor" to fragrant to the mainland from now on, and there was an echo of the "Oriental Beauty" The name "Jiangshan Beauty".
Li Zhizhong, chairman of Fujian Jiangshan Beauty Tea Co., Ltd., told reporters that one of the essential differences between Datian’s "Jiangshan Beauty Tea" and other teas is that it must be bitten and sucked by small green leafhoppers.
To make "Jiangshan Beauty Tea", the green tea must have been bitten and consumed by a small green leafhopper.
It turns out that the green leafhopper secretes hydrolase on the tea green, synthesizes terpene alcohol, and volatilizes the aroma of honey. This is the source of the mellow fruity and honeyy taste of "Beauty Tea", and it is also the most significant difference from other teas.
Li Zhizhong said that the natural conditions in Datian County are suitable for growing tea.
Chen Chunmei, director of the Jingtian Tea Professional Cooperative of Datian County, also said that Datian belongs to a high-altitude area and the "beauty tea" made with honey, floral, and fruity aromas has a very special taste.
The picture shows the scene of the event.
Photo by Zheng Zongqi
In 2016, Chen Chunmei, a master of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, returned to her hometown as a tea farmer.
She took the lead in establishing the Datian County Jingtian Tea Industry Cooperative, adopting the multi-level collaborative development model of "company + cooperative + tea farmers", updating tea tree varieties, introducing new tea production technology, improving tea garden management and tea processing technology, and helping the development of home tea industry , Lead the folks to get rich together.
In the past, local tea farmers were accustomed to fighting separately. Every household had a tea garden, but the scale was small, the quality and price were uneven, and the market bargaining power was low.
In recent years, driven by cooperatives, tea farmers have changed their previous tea-growing and tea-making models, making full use of the local climate and environmental advantages, and taking the "ecological" route, so that "Beauty Tea" has been on the tea market in just a few years. A sudden emergence.
In Daejeon, tracts of tea plantations are lush and lush, and even tracts of tea mountains have become a good place for rural tourism.
Ecological wooden houses, leisure wooden plank roads, natural trails, etc. are all over the tea mountains, and the tea culture leisure experience tour has emerged, helping local people to embark on the road to prosperity.
"A piece of tea has made an industry, and the integration of the tea industry with tourism has become a powerful tool for consolidating the results of poverty alleviation and helping rural rejuvenation." said Lin Changsheng, the party secretary of Pingshan Township, Datian County. Stronger and bigger, to increase the income of local people, especially tea farmers.
In recent years, Datian County has regarded the tea industry as one of the two leading industries in the county, based on the advantages of high mountain ecological resources, continued to play the ecological card, take the green road, consolidate the construction of tea bases, support and grow leading tea enterprises, and strengthen the "Beauty Tea" brand Construction to ensure that tea enterprises and tea farmers increase production and income.
Chen Xiuda, deputy magistrate of Datian County, said that tea has become the "golden leaf" of the wealthy people, and "beauty tea" has become the county's business card.
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