Zhenba County, one of the top ten charming tea towns

As the sixth among China’s top ten national quintessences, tea has extraordinary charms of health, nature, culture, civilization and fashion. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records: Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs and encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and got tea to relieve them. It shows that tea has magical medicinal value. So do we, who are in the hometown of tea, know about the top ten charming tea towns in China? Next, let Urban Culture analyze it in detail for you!

Zhenba County, a county under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, is located at the southern end of Shaanxi Province, the southeast corner of Hanzhong City, the west of Daba Mountain, and the eastern section of Micang Mountain. It is known as the "Southern Gate" of Shaanxi Province. It is the fiefdom of Han general Ban Chao. The Fourth Front Army of the Red Army established the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base here and established Shaanxi South County. It has a land area of ??3,437 square kilometers and is home to Han, Miao, Hui, Uyghur, Zhuang and other ethnic groups. Among them, the town Ba County is the largest Miao settlement in northwest China. The county has Baibaihe Scenic Tourist Area, the unique Miao Village in the northwest, Asia's largest Bashan Bamboo Forest and other tourist attractions.

Specialty introduction

Hanzhong Xianhao

Hanzhong Xianhao is "Wuzi Xianhao", "Dingjun Mingmei", "Ningqiang Que's tongue" The collective name of 3 brands. Qin and Ba are in full bloom in March, and it’s the time when green tea is fragrant. In early March, all designated tea stores in Hanzhong City, the main green tea producing area in southern Shaanxi, changed their door signs to green tea gardens and printed with the words "Hanzhong Xianhao", a national geographical indication product.

Hanzhong is adjacent to Bashan Mountain in the south of Qinling Mountains in the north. It has a long history of tea production and superior ecology in the tea area. The natural geographical advantages of "high latitude, high altitude, high probability of clouds and fog, and high soil zinc and selenium content" make Hanzhong tea market The reputation is rising day by day. Since the late 1990s, Hanzhong representatives and city leaders have regarded the tea industry as one of the key green industries to develop, and have increased support and cultivation, resulting in the rapid development of the tea industry. However, in the process of development, Hanzhong Tea has been caught in the embarrassment of long-term brand melee, different standards, competition to lower prices, and difficulty in consumer choice, which has hindered the tea industry from becoming bigger and stronger. In 2005, Hanzhong City launched the tea brand integration work, integrating the original 20 tea brands into three brands: "Wuzi Xianhao", "Dingjun Mingmei" and "Ningqiang Queyu". In December 2007, Hanzhong City took the opportunity to apply for geographical indication product protection and finally integrated the tea brands into one brand "Hanzhong Xianhao". Hanzhong City 0 has organized groups to participate in the first Xi'an Tea Expo and the 5th China International Tea Expo in Beijing. "Hanzhong Xianhao" won multiple gold awards.

Xixiang Green Tea

Xixiang County has a long history of tea cultivation, which began in the Qin and Han Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In 1975, Xixiang was designated as a tea production base county by the province and city. In September 1975, Wang Shiqing, secretary of the county party committee, attended the National Agricultural Work Conference and proposed a guarantee to build 100,000 acres of tea gardens in 10 years. The county's tea garden area quickly grew to 30,000 acres. In May 1977, at the National Tea Base Construction Experience Exchange Conference, Xixiang was listed as one of the 100 tea base counties in the country. In July 1977, Xixiang County restored the Tea Production Office, responsible for the organization and coordination of tea production in the county.

On August 7, 1985, the tea developed in our county passed the technical appraisal of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Commission. Professor Chen Rong, the director of the appraisal committee, personally named it "Wu Zi Xian Hao".

For more than 20 years, Xixiang tea industry has developed rapidly and achieved gratifying results. There are currently 210,000 acres of tea gardens. Many brands such as "Xixiang Special Stir-fried" and "Wuzicuibai" have emerged, which are sold both inside and outside the province and even abroad, and have received high praise.