What is the tea culture in Wushan Town?

The Wushan Tea Altar is the totem in the hearts of Wushan tea people and the symbol of Wushan tea industry. It is located on a thousand acres of tea mountains in Tianhe Village, Wushan Town, and carries the sustenance and dreams of 35,000 Wushan people. Wushan Tea Garden has become a must-see attraction for tourists visiting Wushan. There is a saying that if you go to Wushan without visiting the tea altar, you have not visited Wushan, which is a great pity. The Five Mountains are adjacent to Wudang Mountain, the Taoist holy land, and on the border of Gu, Dan and Fang; Ma'an Mountain, Yunwu Mountain, Bairi Mountain, Qiujiashan and Lijiashan stand side by side, hence the name "Five Mountains". It has beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people and rich tea culture. According to old legends: The Jade Emperor patrolled the world and loved the five mountains. He planted tea with Jie Jian to produce the best tea; Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs and was poisoned by 72 poisons. He got the tea here and cured all the poisons; the king of Chuzhuang fought for hegemony and went north to the Central Plains, drinking Tea makes you spiritual... Historical records record that the east of the Qinba Mountains is "clumped with rocks." Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, "the practice of drinking tea has become increasingly popular, and the art of growing tea has become increasingly sophisticated." The production of famous and high-quality tea has been flourishing since ancient times. However, the fact that tea has truly become a major industry should be attributed to the Jade Emperor Sword Tea people represented by Chen Weibo and Liu Xianting. Since the 1990s, successive party committees and governments have led the people of Wushan to start a business with hard work, prosper the town with tea, and enrich the people with tea, ushering in an economic boom and a flourishing civilization! In order to enrich the cultural landscape, build ecological civilization, and give tea culture a soul, the Wushan Town Government collaborated with Mr. Sun Jun of the Beijing Green Cross Ecological Culture Communication Center to build a tea altar to respect heaven and earth, worship the tea saint, and thank all living things. Follow the people's will. The Five Mountains tea altar is based on earth and stone, supported by the sky, taken from the earth, and gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; the green dragon in the east, the white tiger in the west, the vermilion bird in the south, and the Xuanwu in the north stand as the "gods of the four directions"; they gather the tops of the five mountains and the five rivers. The pure water from the source of the water is used to pay tribute to the sages and comfort the common people! The majestic tea altar collects the essence of the sun and the moon; the dense treasure cauldron is the best offering to the Jade Emperor. Tea altar, a totem of life and faith, the crystallization of tradition and fashion. I hope that the 30,000 acres of tea mountains will have good weather every year, so that the 30,000 tea villagers can enjoy modern ecological civilization! May man and nature develop harmoniously, and Baili Tea Village will always have clear water and blue sky! The beginning and end of the establishment of the altar. Mr. Sun Jun, director of the Green Cross Ecological Culture Communication Center in Beijing, China, wrote an article specifically recording the idea and process of establishing the Wushan Tea Altar. The excerpt is as follows: Student Dian asked his teacher Confucius, what are the three most meaningful things in life? Confucius said: To stabilize the country and govern the country, build altars and establish schools, and travel around the world. When my friend told me about it, I laughed. I said to my friend Xue Bin from Xiangfan: Haha, we did two of the three things. One was to build an altar, and the other was to travel around the world. There were only three left, and the third was Needless to say, we will never be able to settle down in our country even if we live a few more lifetimes. In 2000, I made two iconic stone sculptures at the Global Village in Beijing and the "Global Village" in Yanqing. One was "Be Kind to the Earth" and the other was "Earth Day Declaration 2000." These two stone sculptures became the place where people took oaths and took photos. This place has become the two stone sculptures that remain in the hearts of those who have been to the global village. In December 2003, I worked on a "rural green community" in Wushan Town. I also thought that Wushan is a tea town, and tea is the culture, the economy, the civilization, and the survival of farmers. One time, the town leaders said that there were many leaders coming to the tea farm, and they all wanted to build several pavilions for the leaders to rest or sit. I just followed them to look at the terrain. When I came to the Tianhe tea farm, I was surprised. One of them was very useful. There is a round stone platform with a diameter of 25 meters built with ordinary stones. There is a screen-like wall with "a slogan" erected on the stone platform. From a distance, it seems strange, so what should be built on it? ? Altar! Suddenly there was a concept in my mind, which was an altar. I looked back at the distance, at the tea gardens, and the "continuous green mountains", and I said in my heart: Isn't this the kind of spirit and belief I want? Building an altar is to establish a belief and a culture. Green Cross is to establish a green culture, green economy and green belief in Wushan.

In the "Five Mountains Model", there are ecological tea gardens, organic tea fields, tea art performances, drinking, tasting tea, talking about tea, picking tea, making tea... Can all of this be elevated to a tea culture, or tea What about civilization? Beijing Green Cross planned the tea altar in this way. The tea kept its original basic shape. Around the altar, the four gods (Qinglong, White Tiger, Xuanwu, and Suzaku) on the altar were built to enlarge the altar. Plants were planted on the outside of the altar. 999 kinds of tea, the Qiankun frame of Tianfang Diyuan was built on the tea. (Because money was too tight, the Qiankun frame was rebuilt the next year.) A Baoding tea altar was created and designed. Five mountains (Ma'anshan) were buried under the tea Baoding tea altar. , Bairi Mountain...), sprinkle the water of the Five Mountains at the corner of the Baoding tea altar. There are nine steps into the tea altar between the altar and the ground. There are 36 Shinto steps in front of the steps. There are two very fierce temples on both sides of the steps. The angry roar of the sky, the holy god who protects the tea altar,... I am unfamiliar with the altar, but the meaning of the altar is clear to me. Wushan Town is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, China, and is administratively affiliated to Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. It is a border mountain town with a foothold in the Three Kingdoms. It is named after the five mountains in its territory: Yunwu Mountain, Ma'an Mountain, Qiujiashan, Lijiashan, and Bairi Mountain. To build a tea altar, it is necessary to take nine jins of soil from the tops of the five mountains, nine jins each of water from the five rivers, nine jins each of high, medium and low-grade tea from the top of the year, and collect tea from each town, village and family for nine liang, nine qian, Nine minutes..., the whole process must start on time at 12 noon. Filming, recording, time, characters, assembly, transportation... must be known to everyone. We must pay attention to this process. The process is life and the ritual is just form. A ninety-year-old male with the highest age and prestige in the village presided over this process. The opening ceremony is at 9am! The process of building a belief, establishing a belief, needs to start with the life of farmers and oral culture. Only with the legends established by the people in oral language and daily life, this belief begins to have life, and only then can there be a sustainable life belief! And what is faith? It is the combination of life and life, and the exchange of survival and hope. Everything that has no connection with life and life is unsustainable. Everything that does not become a culture with hope for survival cannot create faith. Faith is an accompanying life, and life creates hope. , hope to bring faith! On April 28, 2004, Wushan Tea House finally opened. The county party committee secretary personally attended the opening ceremony and sprinkled the tea altar with five-color soil. The town party committee secretary presided over the opening. In the beautiful music, all the villagers and Shili With joy, hope and prayer, the tea drinkers and villagers of Baxiang prayed to the sky, the ground and the earth for a good harvest. In the Baoding tea jar was placed a cup of "tea king" brewed by this year's selected tea king. Jade Emperor Sword" tea, the county party committee secretary put on the Tea King ribbon for the 2004 Tea King. At nine o'clock, the drums and trumpets sounded. With joy, hope, and prayers, people worshiped the sky, the earth, and the tea ancestor three times, wishing the tea country good weather and a good harvest. County leaders also personally attended the opening ceremony and sprinkled the tea altar with five-color soil. In the Baoding tea altar is a cup of "Jade Emperor Sword" tea brewed by the tea king selected this year. The county leaders put on the tea king ribbon and awarded the tea king in 2004, followed by a colorful ceremony. The Jade Emperor Sword Tea Art Performance Team first performed the tea art, the primary school students danced the tea dance, and the tea farmers sang tea songs... When I was building the tea altar, I always wondered whether people would say anything about me Are you engaging in feudal superstition? For Yanhe and Tianhe to become well-off demonstration villages and new ecological civilization villages, culture must represent civilization, knowledge must promote progress, money must be sustainable, and life must be harmonious with nature. All of this is done in the context of the "three rural issues", which is the connotation and spirit of the "Five Mountains Model". Wushan people are the same as the people across the country. Being rich does not mean being strong, culture does not mean civilization, knowledge does not mean progress, and development cannot be said to be sustainable. Because of this, the inherent meaning of establishing a tea altar is to influence people beyond their hearts and souls, and at the same time, it also has a respect and reward for nature! In people's daily lives, the subject of standards of conduct that regulates people should not just be the law, but more importantly, a religion, belief, and civilization. This is the natural civilization in people's daily lives.

A popular saying today has a profound impact on us: Chinese people lack nothing but faith! The content of the "Five Mountains Model" is very simple. It is to classify garbage in rural areas. It is complex and extremely complex. Just like the "Five Mountains Tea Jar" was originally just a pavilion for leaders to rest, but we built a "tea altar". altar". Standing on the Five Mountains among the Five Mountains, 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, from the Shang Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties... A nine-winded Han River nurtured these people who protect their homeland in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and also Cultivated a kind of temperament and personality of the Central Plains people. Looking at the green tea garden, looking at the silver cement road, and listening to the flow of the Han River under our feet, we face this holy tea altar and the prayers of the people in the tea altar. The tea altar inadvertently exudes a kind of Wushan culture, Wushan civilization and a spirit permeating the simplest Chinese farmers!