Recalling the "big country tea craftsman" Xiao Shiying's dream of life

Junior determination, heart with the world. Xiao Shiying, 91, has strived to chase his dream of breeding tea in Yunnan Big Leaf Great Tea since his 20s. In the long years of more than one Jiazi, he did only one thing, that is, it is the tree of Yunnan Big Leaf planting tea. Because of improving the breeding rate of tea breeding in Yunnan, the breeding rate of tea breeding, the selection of good breeding and the management of modern tea gardens, he has achieved outstanding achievements in tea technology innovation.

Dream

In 1953, Xiao Shiying, 22, watched the teacher with a large tea specimen in his hands. While surprised, he had an infinite longing.

He has been a year -old worker in the tea factory, and has received system tea education at Wuhan University Agricultural College. He has never seen such large tea leaves. "The teacher told us that this is the large leaves of large leaves in Yunnan. After graduating, I wrote an application to Yunnan." Xiao Shiying, a decades later, still remembers the amazing amazing of this large -leaf tea.

With the goal of "excellent variety of tea selection", he went to Erhai Tea Trial. At that time, Xiao Shiying took a bus from Hubei to Yunnan. He took a bus all the way, the engineering vehicle, and the gang ... I stopped 12 days away to arrive in Erhai. Since then, Xiao Shiying and his lover have pierced the roots in Yunnan. From the discovery of the first Yunnan large -leaf tea breeding, to the large -scale planting of good breeds; from the average yield of more than 20 kilograms to the average per mu, from the traditional tea gardens to the modern tea garden A tea tree that is struggling to grow is Xiao Shiying's witness. For more than sixty years, he has been guarding the tea garden in the mountains and continues to write the mellow sweetness of the large leaf tea breeding in Yunnan.

Dream

Everything has to start from scratch, everything is to do it by yourself. The conditions at the beginning of the founding of New China were very difficult, but Xiao Shiying and his lover were happy and devoted himself to his love. Starting from the problem of lack of tea seed breeding in tea trees, the couple carried out various breeding methods such as tea seed seedlings, tea tree cuttings, tea tree grafting, and high -level tea trees. In order to solve the problem that the cuttings of large -leaf tea in Yunnan are not easy to get roots and low survival rates, they have been tested many times to explore the new cuttings of "seedlings with seedlings", so that the cutting rate of the cuttings of large leaf planting tea in Yunnan to 80% Above, a new page in the history of Yunnan Big Leaf Selection Selection is opened. And this also laid a solid foundation for Xiao Shiying and his lover to choose excellent varieties of tea trees in large leaves, and to carry out non -breeding cutting seedlings.

In the process of choosing tea and watching for life, Xiao Shiying and his lover explored many "firsts": the first to implement a 5,000 -acre modern tea garden demonstration project; developed a set of pruning methods suitable for Yunnan tea trees. The large tea saplings that have been transplanted for 2 years, but in Xiao Shiying's experimental tea garden, can transplant the small seedlings for half a year, and the tea seedlings grow faster; the large tea garden area is large, and the seedlings are short. A faster live broadcast method is sowed; in order to prevent and treat diseases and insect pests such as "burning edges", pesticides and chemical fertilizers were used in the past. Although it can quickly control diseases and insect pests, it has also brought problems such as soil plates and more and more difficult to kill. In the experimental tea garden of Xiao Shiying, from the plant -based pesticides to insects to prevent pesticides and not fertilizer, Xiao Shiying initiated the "green revolution" of ecological tea gardens again and again. It can also increase production.

For Xiao Shiying, who devoted himself to the study of large -leaf breeding tea, time is a special existence. At the same time, placing in different environments will show different flow speeds.

The "fast" of time allows him to fight in seconds. From planting a good tea to the expansion of Pu'er tea industry, this road is full of his footprints. For more than 60 years, he and his lover selected "Yunli No. 10", "Snow Bud 100", "Dwarf", "Yunmei", "Yunmei", "Magnolia 1" and other tea trees. The number "has been approved as a national good breed, and has become the largest non -sex tea tree in Yunnan tea area. In 2020, at the age of 89, he also selected a non -sex tea trees with early birth, high -yielding and suitable famous tea -trees -Zixiang Early, adding "recruits" to the good breeding of Yunnan Tea Tree.

The "slowness" of time allowed him to move forward. In order to cultivate talents in technology and tea industry, Xiao Shiying, as a "big country tea craftsman", began to accept apprentices at the age of 80. The apprenticeship team came from all walks of life. Some knowledge about tea planting was almost zero. But whether it is a tea expert, newcomer or tea merchant, and practitioners, Xiao Shiying, who is a teacher, has no class, and has set up a number of professional courses to teach everyone's "tea knowledge" to everyone. Xiao Shiying was in tea skills, and tea seedlings were also educated. He always tirelessly explained and tried to pass everyone's understanding and love of tea to a farther place.

Dream

Today, the full mountain tea garden not only condenses the essence of the world's tea source and the Chinese tea city, but also hides Xiao Shiying's merit and name.

Over the years, Xiao Shiying and his team worked hard in the tea garden, which has steadily improved the quality and output of tea in Yunnan. In 2021, the modern tea garden in Pu'er City reached 1.75 million mu, the city's tea output was 124,000 tons, the comprehensive output value of tea reached 33.8 billion yuan, and the per capita income of tea farmers was 5538 yuan. With the efforts of a generation of tea technology workers like Xiao Shiying, the scale of the Pu'er tea industry is getting bigger and bigger, and it has really become the large industry of "clothing and food" and the first pillar industry of Pu'er.

"Innovation, coordination, and green are the direction where Yunnan Tea Garden can continue to explore." While promoting the construction of modern tea gardens and ecological tea gardens, Xiao Shiying did not forget the old tea tree resources. He believes that there are many old tea trees in Yunnan. This is precious wealth. It must be protected, but industrial development also needs to make more innovation. It must be promoted and scale. Therefore, he has not stopped the innovation of tea planting technology, selection of tea trees, and the development of tea products. Life is only one tea. This is Xiao Shiying's evaluation of his life. He wrote in the book "The Pu'er Tea We Paris in Parisions": "Magnolia (Xiao Shiying's lover) and me, life is tea." After many bumps and vicissitudes, the past things have made it pass. We don't regret it. Only the landscape, pioneering, and innovation for the large -leaf planting tea trees in Yunnan is the yearning and pursuit of our hearts. "

The cultivation is the same, so it is full; dreaming of thinking about the world, so it is extraordinary. From the fate from a piece of tea specimen to the insistence of the Mountain Tea Garden, Xiao Shiying lived up to his original intention and used his own half of his life to produce the sweetness of Pu'er tea.

(Source: Pu'er Daily Reporter: Editor Zhong Yun: Luo Yuanjing)

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