Starting point, the past and present life of Meimei Village

The story starts from Xiamei Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. Due to the prosperity of Wuyi Rock Tea, Wuyi Mountain became the starting point of Wanli Tea Ceremony, and then opened the history of tea trade that lasted for hundreds of years.

Starting point, the past and present life of Mei Village

Ancient House, Xiamei Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. Zheng Youyu Photo

More than 30 ancient houses in the Ming and Qing dynasties were rowed by row, and Meixi and Dangxi, which were intertwined, flowed quietly. The bricks and wood carvings along the street were exquisite and luxurious ... In the southeast of Wuyishan City, there is a small village that keeps the appearance of the Qing Dynasty tea market. Every year, a large number of tourists from home and abroad are attracted. This is the starting point of the eastern end of the Wanli Tea Ceremony, Xiamei Village, a national historical and cultural village.

Xiamei was named after the lower reaches of Meixi. The people of Wuyishan in the Republic of China sincerely work in "Tea Market Miscellaneous": "The tea market in the early Qing Dynasty was in Xiamei, and tea produced in nearby counties was concentrated here. There were three hundred bamboo rafts, and the tea was the same. Management, from Jiangxi to Henan to transport and selling off. Western guests Shanxi merchants also have about 2.3 million to million per capital. The money and the purchase of the tea, the order of the diplomatic relations, do not ask what you do, and the tea is over. Do n’t go. "Vividly restores the prosperity of the tea trade of Xiamei Village that year.

At that time, Jin Shang was a key group that opened up thousands of miles in the north to connect the tea area of ​​northern Fujian and Central Asia and Europe. In the central part of Xiamei Village, the Jin Shang teahouse, which was gathered in the giant, lived next to the Zou family temple, and witnessed the history of entrepreneurial entrepreneurially cooperating in Fujian in Fujian.

According to the "Wuyishan City Chronicle", Xia Mei Zou was originally from the southwestern Jiangfeng. Due to the relocation of the Wuyishan tea market in the Qing Dynasty to Xiamei, "the business of operating the tea industry has obtained more than one million yuan and more than 70 mansion of luxury homes. "City", Zou's and Cheng's, Peng, Chen, Fang, and other local tea merchants jointly teamed up to buy tea mountains, set up tea houses in Xiamei, selected and acquired tea, built tea -making, established stable tea leaves, and established stable tea leaves. Production base. There are still imperial courts, tea industry records, flat burdens, and Maso in the Zou family temple to inspire future generations.

Outside the door of the Zou family temple and the Jin Shang teahouse, it was the stream that runs through the ancient tea market of Xiamei Village. The artificial canal with only 8 meters wide and only 1,000 meters wide has 8 installed unloading docks. Since its opening in 1680, it has played a key role in transporting tea for hundreds of years. When the Meixi Water Road at the stream and the village entrance, the "Ding" shaped shaped, and from the "Jinglong" terminal from this point, the tea leaves from the "Jinglong" terminal were inspected by Chong'an County. The region arrives at St. Petersburg.

On the square on the Meixi River, a "Miles Tea Ceremony" sculpture was proudly standing. The sculpture was completed in 2014 and 15.28 meters high. The main body consists of tea, bamboo rafts, water waves and other elements. The inscriptions on the base are engraved with four texts of China, Britain, Russia, and Mongolia. Wuyishan ". In the same year, Wuyishan hosted the third "Miles Tea Ceremony" and the Mongolian Russian Mayor Summit in the development of the "Wanli Tea Ceremony", marking a new historical opportunity for the Fujian section of the Wanli Tea Ceremony.

Today's Wuyi Mountain is giving full play to the advantages of tea culture and the "double world heritage" resources, and building a tourism transportation network integrating aviation, railway, and highways. The active actions of cultural tourism complexes such as cultural tourism products and construction of "Wuyi Tea World" have focused on promoting a new transformation from landscape tourism to leisure vacation, from scenic tourism to the whole region tourism, from special tea travel to tea cultural tourism.

At the eastern end of this "century artery", Wuyi Tea once influenced the world with the "most oriental" lifestyle. In the "Belt and Road" and "Three Tea" coordinating tones, the new Fujian on the Wanli Tea Ceremony The chapter is expected in the future. (Fujian Daily reporter Lai Haotuo)

Plan: Zhang Jun in Ma Shaolin Sun Yifan

Produced: Pang Junfeng Liang Liang Yu Tao

Coordinating: Zhao Wencui

Edit: Feng Xueyu

Source: grassland all media

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