Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Introduction of Huangshan Famous Tea - Taiping Houkui

 Taiping Houkui mainly grown in the township of Huangshan District, Xinming monkey pit, monkey post, the Yen family three villages, all of 300 meters above sea level, and the need to hell and high water, transportation is very convenient. Day dawn, we drove out to the new town, along the dark green Emerald, bridges, idyllic scenery, everywhere Jieke into poetry.
A few hundred meters from the pier at a pavilion. It is said that when Premier Zhou Enlai to Anhui Ye Ting and Xiang Ying mediation had in this a rest between the contradictions, the latter by re-repair, construction materials has become a dumping place.
 




Although too early to reach the terminal time, has been quite lively, with groups of end of the pit from the monkey returned picking people, but also to local merchants to buy tea, as well as we so attracted to the visitors. After asking to know the river is called the Blue River, Taiping Lake is upstream, deep rivers beautiful, grotesque peaks and ridges, due to high mountains and deep valleys, moisture will slowly rise into a sea of ​​clouds along the slopes of the mountain is clothed in cloud, cloud to Hill is the body, deep river twists and turns, sit on the board, as if being in the Three Gorges. After approximately half an hour to reach the shore, as are country roads, local residents need to transfer the most common means of transport tricycle driver to maneuvering speed guy we started getting scared of the winding half-hour trip.
I do not know when to finally stop ear whistling sound, a friend patted eyes closed, I have been reminded to get off, look back to the foot of the rugged winding, steep mountain road, still reeling, the driver can not help but admire the young man's driving skills were superb five-body cast .
    
We visited several families of farmers monkey pit, and everyone's tea workshops are in full swing boom vivacious scene. According to the farmers introduced more than 60 residents of the monkey pit total households, tea is allocated according to the prevailing accounts, and some hard-working farmers are digging their own in the mountains some tea to increase production. Taiping Monkey origin, although several Quebec, but said the monkey pit or in the most superior quality produced, where the mountain wading, Lin Maojing show, clouds filled the air, humid air, 25-40 degrees in the garden are located on the slopes, in average temperature of 14-15 ℃, the average annual rainfall 1650-2000 mm, the soil mostly one thousand rock, made of weathered granite soil usha, deep fertile soil, good ventilation, water permeability, strong leaf buds fat, tender and strong support, has a unique ecological environment, it is suitable for production of special varieties of Taiping Monkey Chief "big persimmon tea" growth.
 




Taiping Monkey Chief "Why what name? Folk, there are several versions, I think that the higher the credibility, the most realistic argument is that the first monkey is a wild Quebec tea tea, because 600 years towering mountains, steep walls no one more, title to the birds in the crevice of tea seed to sow among the forest gradually multiply the local mountain to be taken captive monkey mountain tea, and elaborate, this is the prototype of the Pacific monkey Quebec. to modern times , Qing dynasty 26 years (1900), who lives in the monkey's farmers Wangkui Cheng Kong (1861-1909, known as "Wang II", native Lujiang sanshilipu), the tip of the mountain tea in Phoenix within the fat of well-chosen a bud and two leaves, refined and processed, into a tea out of the system specification, high quality, known as "Wang two Quebec tip." Taiping County in 1912 the first tea Mr. Liu Jingzhi Taiping Houkui buy several pounds, to send to Nanjing Southern Seas and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce on display, in one fell swoop won the Excellence Award 1915 in the United States, Panama Pacific International Exposition held on and won the first-class gold medal and a certificate. From then on, Quebec will be known in the world peace monkey, a legendary .

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